stackyFACTSGetting dressed wasn't a solo activity. Achieving the most absurdly cinched silhouette required clutching a bedpost while an attendant planted their foot on your back and hauled on the laces with all their body weight.
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To visually assert peak dominance, aristocrats wore giant, jeweled attachments over their groins that occasionally doubled as extremely awkward coin purses.
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Eighteenth-century hairstyles grew so absurdly large and coated in flammable grease that leaning too close to a chandelier routinely ended in dramatic,…
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Aristocrats strapped heavily starched, platter-sized collars to their necks that required specially elongated spoons just to successfully get soup into their…
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In 17th-century France, extreme paleness was the ultimate flex. To prove they were truly 'blue-blooded' and never worked outdoors, nobles literally drew fake…
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The universal sign of absolute leisure was wearing cuffs so excessively long they aggressively dragged through the mud everywhere you walked.
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Forget the idea that corsetry was strictly female. Dandy gentlemen of the 18th and 19th centuries strapped themselves into heavily reinforced undergarments…
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