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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 ...
Capote de paseo: a vestige of the 19th-century promenade cape, this is a short silk mantle with rich and luxurious embroidery which is used during the paseíllo. Before the main performance starts, this ornate cape is exchanged for a more utilitarian red or purple muleta , a long cape used to entice the bull to charge.
George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840) [1] was an important figure in Regency England, and for many years he was the arbiter of British men's fashion.At one time, he was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV, but after the two quarrelled and Brummell got into debt, he had to take refuge in France.
Toy cowboys and Indians, farm sets, spacemen, knights, dinosaurs, firemen, police officers and other playsets are often sold alongside army men. In September 2019, BMC Toys, a maker of army men, announced that army women would be sold in 2020. [9] This announcement was made due to popular request from female veterans and toy fans.
A macaroni (formerly spelled maccaroni [1]) was a pejorative term used to describe a fashionable fellow of 18th-century Britain. Stereotypically, men in the macaroni subculture dressed, spoke, and behaved in an unusually epicene and androgynous manner.
Toys under the tree on Christmas morning weren't always made at the North Pole. For a half-century, until 1980, many were made in Erie and Girard by Marx Toys. ... was personnel manager at Marx's ...
Pages in category "18th-century American merchants" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 355 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
So what toys are kids asking from Santa this holiday season? Check out Wal-Mart's list of hottest toys: See the full list below: Num Noms Lipgloss Truck, $29.94. Pom Pom Wow Decoration Station, $29.97