"Fear God and Love Me" walks a very fine line between hilarious and ominous 😅

Always keep the matching halves of empty walnut shells together. Put the pairs in separate containers, such as egg cartons. If I'm not going to be painting them right away, I use scotch tape to hold them together. Makes it much easier, than trying to find the matches. You only had three pairs to match up; imagine if you'd cracked fifty walnuts perfectly in half.

did you know that people in the past used to glue plastic threads to their eyes, because looking like your lashes are too thick and heavy to fully open your eyes was considered beautiful? 😱

Such a lovely video!

Dark mehndi green fabric hai apke paas

Love this video! Thank you! 🙏🏽 ❤

This is actually a thing our teacher told. A girl in my class (2010ish) outright told him she didn't believe him since miniskirts were totally mainstream...

Wait that’s so sick I ran into a fashion historian in the wild I love seeing people so passionate about hyper specific things it just warms my icy heart to see ppl so caring with their craft

Thanks for this lovely calendar!

Merry Christmas to you and thank you for your Advent calendar, I loved it. The myth about us??? Every woman used botox or was lifted, we wore all kinds of poor plastic clothes, our skins where all "thin" of taking showers and bath every day, we all used extremely long, thick false eyelashes etc. ❤😂🎉

Have a wonderful day during this Yuletide x

Future myths: Did you know that all the women wore high heeled shoes that permanently crippled their feet? They used toxic chemicals on their hair to change the colour. And they used snail slime and placenta on their faces to take away wrinkles.

Future fashion history myth: everyone had plastic surgery and botox and no one could smile!

Also, keep in mind it wasn’t just women’s health. Victorian “doctors” used pseudoscience to justify all kinds of things.

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"yes, yes.... The corsets.. THE CORSETS are making women MAD! Yee shalt stop wearing them... I, a male doctor, who has NOOO romantic interest in ye, shall show you how to dress correctly in privet, in my study . Yess..yes..."

Well said!

remember to be careful if you use real mistletoe - it is toxic to animals and humans!

Why were high heels invited? I was told it was to keep people clean from poop in the street and also for horse riding. Not sure which is true

My husband and I are building a small home in 2025 and I will place a pair of his shoes near the entranceway so he is always with me as long as I live in the home.

I see a distinct clothing shift / evolution from each era in the 1920s, 30s, 40s - 90s etc. Why does it feel so fuzzy or ambiguous between 2000, 2010, & 2020?

I've never heard of this one.

Our crackers are always something we look forward to either just before or right after dinner. I made fabric ones but i always love the paper ones the most. Paper crown, jokes or riddles maybe charades and a toy. 😊

I've never heard of this myth, interessting ❤

I feel like there's actually potential reasons for that though, like trying to save money on heating and so wearing longer skirts, or trying to stay as modest as possible, as to stave off extra mouths to feed.😅

I thought it was more about the fullness of skirt in certain situations. The 1930s and ‘40s had slimmer skirts because there just wasn’t money to buy a lot of fabric (for home sew-ers), but the 1950s saw FULL skirts come back, as a subtle sign that women could afford the yardage. Not sure it holds up past that point anyway, but that’s what my seamstress mother believed!

I've heard the same thing with high heels/platforms 😅

I heard about that this happend. I thought about what you said and yes I think you are right, most accidents happen in houses at home. I totally agree with you. Have a nice cozy 4. Advent ❤

Two claims I remember reading as a child: 1) Some men's starched collars in the early 19th century were so tall and stiff they severed the wearer's ear lobes. 2) That crinolines could act like kites and blow women off their feet in a strong wind.

Love this simple common sense❤

Napoleon's wife Josephine started a trend of throwing water on yourself before attending balls. This made the dresses seem like tissue. Something about Napoleon closing up fireplaces and women getting sick?

Back when ribbon was just pennies a yard I bought a variety of Christmas-y plaid and striped ribbons and tied nice bows on the branches to fill out our meager ornaments and lights. A pretty bow is a simple square knot---right over left, then left over right. A satin-y wide ribbon snaked thru the tree here and there is pretty, too.

What about the weight of nineteenth century women’s clothes when sodden by a thunderstorm becoming so heavy that they collapsed from exhaustion trying to get back home?

Did men and women of the past wear beauty patches to the degree often depicted in film, literature, or satire? Hogarth shows patches all over sex workers in Marriage a la Mode to imply disease…were patches used to hide disfiguring diseases, or was this just another misogynistic caricature of women and “fops”?

I don't really know why people believe in this myth, you only have to look at all these very old historical illustrated books and bibles. The pictures show a wonderful variety of intense colors. In any case, the surcot of my medieval dress is form wool felt in a strong blue and the cotte is from linen in correspondingly strong red. Thank you for another historical information, I really enjoy your Advent calendar. Greetings from Germany ❤❤❤ PS: I think I have to take the time to read my book The Brilliant History of Color in Art" from Victoria Finlay again 🤔

When I was in my twenties, I used to bring in boughs of Holly to "deck" our house with at Christmas. In recent years, I made homemade Chrstmas crackers, using the same method that Serena used, but I put small toys inside, and some funny jokes. My family loved this, and some of the toys are still around. I enjoyed watching this video very much! It took me back to the good old days. I wish you a very Merry Christmas! ~Janet in Canada 💖💖

People now wear vastly impractical clothing for the purpose of fashion, so its not outside the realm of possiblity that people did then, as well.

I know, I would be a hazard around candles, though xD

It's definitely silly to think that ordinary women would have worn something so impractical, but would that have been a viable method for some of the more extreme court gowns? From what I've seen of the really wide/exaggerated extant examples, you might not be able to reach far enough to get the panniers to collapse

If they could not fit through doors, they would never be able to get out of the room that they got dressed in.

I make all of my own clothes, and I can attest that what I choose to make is often based on the very practical reasons of what I need, what is comfortable, what suits my body, and occasionally on what I think might be a fun challenge to make. What my husband or any other man thinks rarely comes into consideration. I'm currently in the process of knitting myself several pairs of bed socks out of 100% undyed cotton yarn. Very unsexy, but oh so soft and cozy and warm for the chilly winter nights.

I mean, men like notoriously hated Poke bonnets in the early 19th century. There's so many cartoons taking the mickey out of them and it's hilarious.

This is false if for no other reason than us lesbians have always existed

Oh dear, who came up with such nonsense? Of course you want to please your partner, but on the other hand you don't want to be cold and you want things to be a little more comfortable at home. I don't think women in history were that much different than we are today, even if there were different guidelines back then about what you could/should wear, when and at what age. When I see people today at the opera or at a ball, I wish I had lived a few generations earlier. But I have a question. When you mentioned Beau Brommel, I thought of something from an old film from probably the 1950s. In one scene you can see his dressing room and the walls are full of shelves with clothes hanging on hangers. As far as I know, clothes hangers were only invented in the middle of the 19th century and initially only for special robes such as church vestments. Clothes hangers only came into general use at the end of the 19th century; before that, clothes were stored in chests. Is that correct? Many greetings and thank you for another myth busting ❤

The truth about chastity belts would be a nice myth busting episode.

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Loving this. Making fashion history much more digestible for those with a passing interest and develop the interest further. More visual examples would be helpful.

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