On Friday I wrote about some bizarre (to us) eighteenth-century children’s fashions. What became the dominant fashion for kids of the nineteenth century? Sailor suits. To look at photos and portraits of kids from that century, you’d be forgiven for… Read More
In 1666, the beautiful Frances Stuart, mistress to Charles II, was chosen as the model for “Britannia” on the first minted coin. According to one chronicler, “It is impossible for a woman to have more beauty . . . or less wit.”