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Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette. [34] Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–20 must have been a strange ...
A factory-sealed, first-gen iPod sold for $20,000, though eBay currently lists one in its original box at close to $1,200. 3. iMac G3. eBay. Remember these guys? These bulbous personal computers ...
The story is set in Revolutionary France in the closing years of the 18th century, during the period when the Directoire, led by Barras, held power. Fashionable Parisian society is led by the Incroyables, or dandies, and their feminine equivalents, the Merveilleuses. The latter have adopted classical robes as their form of dress and the ...
In the late 18th century, clothes were mostly sold by individual shopkeepers who were often the artisans who made the goods. Customers usually lived in the same neighborhood as the shops and the shops would gain popularity by their customers' word-of–mouth recommendation, with the exception of warehouses (i.e., any retail on wholesale), where ...
Early 19th-century school of President Ulysses S. Grant, operated by the Ohio History Connection Granville Historical Society Museum Granville: Licking Central Local history [93] Great Western Schoolhouse: St. Clairsville: Belmont Southeast Education Open by appointment, late 19th-century schoolhouse Greater Buckeye Lake Historical Society Museum
Now, it’s fetching upwards of $2,300 on platforms like eBay. Similarly, the original Sony Trinitron color TVs are valued at $1,000 or more among collectors. ... Get sweaters on sale for the ...
The slop trade was flourishing by the 18th century, as slop-sellers realized that they could sell to the general public as well as to the army and navy, and also received a boost from the Napoleonic Wars. [6] [7] [8] Slop work became organized into a system of large clothing warehouses subcontracting out to small workshops or individuals.
Along with the anonymously written Fifteen Plagues of a Maidenhead (1707), Garfield and Curll's works were involved in cases that helped form the 18th-century legal concept of "obscene libel"—which was a marked change from the previous emphasis on controlling sedition, blasphemy and heresy, traditionally the ecclesiastical courts' province. [65]