A Historical Get Ready With Me - 1784 Edition 

Yeah I was born then. July 9, 1768. I never met my mother or father. My father left me on a door step of a magistrates house after my mother died. The magistrates and his wife raised me as their own, along with their 3 other children. The rest of the town treated me as a bastard, which I guess in a way, I was. When I was 17 I met my first wife, Anna. She died after our first child was born, Thomas. I met my second, and last, wife in 1794,Elizabeth. She gave birth to twins on May 21st 1796, Elizabeth and Caleb. In 1800, Elizabeth, my wife, died due to the flu. I continued to raise our children the best I could. Thomas became a magistrate and married a woman from France, she failed to be with child.. Elizabeth married a continental congressman and had 2 daughters. Caleb grew cabbage and raised hogs, he married a former prostitute and had 4 daughters and 2 sons.

I love that I just wrote a story for you.

@@connersuxx thats beautiful

Conner this story is better than any Shit I’ve seen recently

*1760s

That would be great with a hidden camera

When you walk in you should shout “IT WORKED!”

@@user-uo2wn8zx5b lolol best comment!!!!

@@user-uo2wn8zx5b Time traveller. LOL

You are soooo elegant!

I know I was (and still) confused like I literally thought she was working as something like dressing up

Legit that’s something I’d say because me and my sister both wear Victorian fashion.

And both are true.

I wish

If we did, I'm sure it would be a little at a time not all at once

Now is the time, go for it!

if that time comes, women should not work full time!

Can't wait

Maybe she’s a time traveler or a vampire

She’s immortal. Just accept it.

@@bluelol4843 AND HIS RIGHT HAND MAN

@@ew4915 Son, we are outgunned, outplanned

well she isn't and I'm glad she is in the same era as us

We can wear this. You can literally wear whatever you want

@ᴘᴇᴀᴄʜʏʙᴀɴɢᴛᴀɴ Who cares whether you gather attention or not? I have crippling anxiety, but when it comes to how I dress, I give zero fucks what people think of me. lol You can't live your life giving a fuck what others think, or you'll live with too many regrets and remain insecure.

another youtuber named Bernadette Banner did a couple of videos adapting 18th/19th century clothing for modern times, I highly recommend those

Actually me but for fun. It's just time consuming.

Guess what girl you can

It’s not really a 18th century’s gown if a maid did not help /j (what she does is amazing)

I mean, it’s more like 75% accurate?

"might"?

Ditto.

same

I don’t care for historical fashion, but I come here for the memes.

I'm a middle aged guy and I watch this channel because of her relatability and sense of humour, the depth of analysis and integrity in a topic that is so harmless, (contrast with politics, COVID, etc) delivered in an honest dialogue. Also, reassuring to see that really pretty women are ordinary people making the same stupid mistakes like the rest. Seeing the normal life of a really pretty lady is rare in the days of oversexualised media and instagram. This is just refreshingly authentic.

SAME LMFAO

OMG TWINING!

Dude same. It's 1:30am and here I am.

should be learning BUT... yeah you know..

Me too!!!!

Pfffff...😂

They didn't wear underwear in those days, just the chemise😹🙊

Oh i can certainly Imagine someone from that very time watching this video right now :>}

Yip shes hilarious

@@lilisanger well that was their underwear. Karolina is quite courageous!

It blew my mind when I realized (once I got into cosplay) that Princess Leia's hair was fake LOL all my childhood dreams destroyed

I always envied all the super long hair from disney channel stars like early/mid 2000s and I found out recently they were all extensions!! (Jokes on them tho now I have actual waist length wavy hair so)

bonbons Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. Bear Grylls would be proud 😂

I'm proud to be your like #800 lol

@@maryj7423 wow I'm proud you are to😊😊😊 I had no idea this was at 800. You tube never made one peep about any number. 😕

Omg that’s amazing! Say hi to the wardrobe department!

Probably left by someone who sleptover after a ball - Great!

L. Luve 😂😂😂😂😂

Yee thats cute

Hm pretty sure it was way less romantic and had to do with the fact most places didn't have fix time zones, so in Europe at least even cities in one country, even neighbouring cities you would frequently visit would have a completely different time. I was guessing it would make for needing two watches rather than some romantic tale, you do get if someone is at sea you will have no clue what time they'd be living in the 17th century since ships would not have fixed trails and would have to depend on weather conditions which as you might know, are not fixed, so having a watch for that whilst not even being on said ship would make no sense, but even on the ship it would even make a lot of sense to keep time, since you'd be slowly time traveling in a way the whole time.

My husband has to travel for work. SO I do this all the time.

Or maybe it's just one watch, the other is a timer for horse races!

Also I think that because in early modern times watches were quite expensive it was a status symbol for the rich because as far as I know, the exact time wasn’t that important back then and people still used to mainly go after the standing of the sun

Thats so cute- your daughter must be 8 by now :00

That’s so wholesome awww lmao

i have a weird urge to do that as well but there's no way i could do this without being seen :/

I want to be friends with you so we can go on strolls in period garb!

Your childhood sounds perfect.

Lucky I live in a town with mostly blacks and you know how they like to call and shame white people now for being weird. Maybe some other time in my life I suppose.

Just Me - What the heck?

💀

80s* 💀

especially when affairs happened

Who??

@@ktportalproductions7815 *THE REYNOLDS PAMPHLET* HAVE YOU READ THIS

Bald Eliza ah, Hamilton references. The true gold of the internet.

@@ktportalproductions7815 😂😂😂

Me too!!!

"preferably a cheap one" LOL

A child maybe? She could foster a kid and make them help her then when they dont listen to her she just fosters a new kid, but then again kids are costly

If she starts a patreon we can pay for her servants. LOL

If only I was in poland, I totally would

This is the funniest thing I've seen all day

@@classicnowaar AHAAHHAHAH XXDD

Same

Same

LOVE the look!

Yes. She should.

That's what I thought as well at first but given that many things weren't really finished or secured properly, I totally understand that she didn't want to take the risk. I remember the first time I tried the Gibson girl hairstyle and went outside only to see it fall pathetically...

Good point about the whales. How ironic

stella I would.

You bend at the knees and not with the back.

@@southernhippie9058 or ask your maid or husband to pick it up.

I’m EXTRA cheap and I just used plastic from packaging that I had lying around. It worked ok it’s just not as strong

I'm the type of person who would probably just use cardboard lol

@@rubythebitch46 I have made so many cosplays mainly from cardboard and people asked me where I bought it. I see Amazon boxes and thing about what i can papier mache then attach fabric/fur to it immediately.

I used the plastic handles from those gallon paint cans. I got them for free, the local paint store just throws them away. 😂

I’ve used strips I cut from plastic milk jugs. But it I were making stays, I think I’d level up to zip ties, lol.

sending the contract over tomorrow

Karolina Żebrowska Heck yeah.

I would have done it for four. Just saying... lol

noneof yourbusiness ew no one wants a 4 dollar corseter (futurama reference )

And the "cleavange" minced our corpses.

Arianna Bonardi SAME!!! I loooooovvvveeeddd it!!! 😂 and this WONDERFUL VIDEO!!! I am sooo hooked, pinned and completely tied to watching all of her videos!!!! Love love love 💕 so beautiful!!!

😂

Yeah, I've never heard such a word before! 🤣

I know, right? Me too.

KathaMaker pretty entertaining,huh?

ME TO WOW

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ME

When I started to read your comment I just thought you were referencing to "Voi che sapete" that she sang in the video and I was like WHAAAT? 😂

This is a really cool idea, but if opera singers wore proper stays or corsets, would you folks be able to sing properly? That is a lot of lung capacity being held back.

keyholes historically, opera singers wore corsets anyway, and corsets were more like bras so it wouldn’t have effected singing *that* much. also i bet there’s historically accurate costuming at an opera house somewhere already that uses real corsets!

Exact same 😊

I love that she is very honest about the parts of her clothes that is not historically accurate instead of trying to pass it off as correct. Very entertaining and funny. I love her videos!

great idea! and you don’t have to worry about a zipper 😂

Do you know if any patterns are available online? :)

I’m intrigued. I’m new to period fashion... I’m going on a Google dive. Brb

Oh god it's the first time I see someone who is estonian commenting under videos. I'm from Estonia too.

CATHERINE the Great eh? Sorry, bad Joke.

@@ancientlemon4200 Same! I don't live in Estonia but I'm from there, I wasn't expecting this at all

TheBoredBulgarian this is the third explanation of the two watches and each one I’ve seen has been different

I don't think that it is true because she was killed in October of 1793 so it seems late to characterize the clothing of this time and no French noble would have shown a tribute to her because of the Terror. I don't know everything so maybe i'm wrong but it seems incorrect.

She wasn’t dead yet, and the trend of multiple watches happened all over, nor just in France. Guys, in actuality the reasoning for have 2 watches was likely 1. To show your possessions and 2. Practicality if you travel to a different time zone. Not much more.

@@moonfish3638 no time zones yet, not until railroad travel necessitated them.

awww this is so sweet hahah ❤️

wtf wtf oh yeah good ol' Charlie

I'll take 2

"Oh no, the hatpins worn by the ladies are being used as self defense! Let's come up with some thin excuse to ban them!"

@@scouttyra they cant ban knitting needles or sharpened crochet hooks. ;)

She had a good sized pin for her hat when she was putting it in. I’ve seen bigger ones with elaborate end pieces that were part of the decor on top of the hat.

I thought that was in the Edwardian Era...

sounds reasonable!

If was showing wealth to get portraied with a watch... and more wealth with more watches.

*self-deprecating ...although im sure your self worth could depreciate through too much deprecation.

Goddammit, someone beat me to the pedantry.

Dumb question, but time zones weren't around before trains arrived, so could 2 watches also have been used to know the time in another city?

They could. The first city clocks (placed on churches or official buildings) were invented during the 14th century in northern Italy, each city showing (in a relative, non-precise way) the time of the day. After a couple centuries and the apparition of smaller clocks, heads of states (kings, emperors etc) had several clocks in a room indicating different hours for several places (based on those city clocks). It had a diplomatic and military interest. But it was in no way as precise as the actual time-zones, created during the 19th century. As an anecdote (even if it was in the 20th century), my great-grand parents had two watches during the war. My great-grand mother was a refugee in the U.K and my great-grand father a soldier in France, Belgium, then Germany (with the front moving). They used that to know the time it was for each other.

The two cities thing was my thought as well. The city tower clock were generally timed so that noon was when the sun was highest in the sky (very precise as we know), but by that time minutes started to be important, so maybe having two clocks actually helped being functional when visiting (one to keep the home time and one to be set to wherever you were atm time). Also because they were just kinda expensive and well to do people found it indispensable, like some today find the newest iPhone a must have. Or maybe it was just some saccharine shit over how one clock is set to the time my heart beats with - if the fiancée was foreign and away at home.

At that point, clockwork mechanisms were all handmade and weren't perfect enough to keep what we would consider to be "good time". A big clock in your front hall? sure, you could certainly tell the time with that. But a teeny pocket watch, with such fine-tooth gears, that was being SWUNG AROUND all day? Nah. It will quickly go out of synch. As a result, pocket watches were more ornamental than anything else-- as you said, a symbol of wealth and status. They were fashionable, but they weren't very practical-- there's actually a trend of little clocks/watches being set into jewelry around this same time period, which is pretty telling, I think. So yeah, the point of wearing two watches was about showing off your wealth-- and as a bonus, maybe between the two of them you could get something closer to accurate time. :)

I read a poem one time about a woman carrying two watches because one was for her husband away at war or like how much time they have been apart or something like that. Probably not historically accurate but that's why I thought they wore two watches. But after reading the bit about wealth and knowing how people like to show that off I can imagine why they were two watches because they were handmade back in the day and expensive

I have two daughters. Both of them have uttered various things of this nature. I can't stop laughing. You are so funny!

IKR. You just have to know the right people tbh. If you’re in the local art or fashion scene you can make friends and they might host or know when balls are happening, they’re very fun to attend! Once my husband rented a horse and carriage for us to drive to the ball in and it was the best date ever

@Moon Fish Oh my gosh, that sounds amazing! :D

How's it going now? Are you still binding? I'm just curious because I want to bind sorry if this comes across as invasive.

Pastaa Animates yes im still binding, even when you get a binder that fits 100% properly you have to break it in, itll be a bit hard to put on for the first week, reminder not to bind for longer than 8 hours and to take frequent breaks

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Same:)

It's a Polish thing. A bit caustic

❤️

@ the second 'watch' may well be a small barometre for knowing if it is going to rain. the well to do liked to have the latest gadgets, it was a great time for practical sciences

i'd say "bOH" for pronunciation guide.

You learn something new every day. Thank you

MiauxCatterie Yeah, that's very good, I didn't think of it!

Éliane Blanchard its actually the o that changes, for bow noun it would be a long o for bowverb you would do a short o The w doesnt change that much actually.

I never thought about it that way before!

I think I did actually, something like “How to start with historical costumes”! Check it out

captain0ldy0da omg I love how you said “gentleman” idk why it’s just cute. Lmao.

What are you implying!? Mr Darcy is *taken*

Here's more of a 70's thing

nartyteek I wonder, is there a reason to not use spring steel? I don’t mean the flat, sturdy variety that’s sold for corsetry, but rather the thin, round ones, you would get in a hardware store. It starts at 0,1mm thickness, so there would be excellent control over the degree of flexibility. I‘ve never dabbled in 18th century corsetry, but it would seem like a good replacement for reed/canes.

Hmm, maybe because steel is heavy? Some stays are fully boned (literally boning tunnel next to a boning tunnel) and require a looot of boning. I think even if the steel is lighter than regular boning, it can steel affect the weight of a corset when a lot of pieces are applied

Karolina Żebrowska Ah, true! Didn't consider that. Those outfits look heavy enough as it is, no need to add a steelcage for underwear ☺

I have fully-boned stays and used German plastic. It's probably the thickest stuff you can get, and it still molds under body heat. That's another advantage plastics have is they mold in the style of baleen, whereas steels will warp instead. Spring steel is made to retain its shape so once it stops doing that it is probably doing something it's not made for.

Flexibility isn't always a good idea, funnily enough! If you want a corset that will "remember" your body, the way a well-used corset will, using spring steel might keep that from happening. I think spring steel's best use is in costuming that will be worn by different people, like in period theatre, or in outer wear. But that's one tailor's opinion! Others have better luck than me with spring steels.

Yep she does :)