Breakfast Links: Week of July 25, 2016
� The parachute wedding dresses of World War Two brides.
� Winged skulls and hot air balloons: the unusual grave of Etienne-Gaspard Robert, pioneer of phantasmagoria.
� What's in my bag, 1890s Montreal edition.
� Speculating about the appearance of Elizabeth I through dress reconstruction.
� Let them eat stale bread: the diet of the poor in Regency England.
� Image: Scrap album fancy dress, 1893.
� Victorian and Edwardian lingerie pin-ups.
� While John Adams was in Philadelphia in 1776, Abigail Adams wrote this letter to him with news of having their children (and herself) inoculated against smallpox.
� Canines and crinolines: Victorian dogs confined by fashion.
� Image: A 17thc recipe for "an approved Elixir for the recovery of health in those that have longe languished."
� A 1936 junior miss suit with a lot to say.
� Read this 1891 booklet online: Don't Marry; or, Advice as to Who, How, and When to Marry.
� George Washington's favorite horse, Nelson.
� The children of World War One in photographs.
� The mirrors (or not) behind Rembrandt's self-portraits.
� The high cost of life for Europeans in India.
� New York man finds enslaved ancestor's bill of sale, 220 years ago.
� Image: Author Charlotte Bronte was only 4'10". Here's her bodice and her gloves.
� Modish dresses, modesty, and Napoleon's brother, 1815.
� How a Dutch fabric-maker became the father of microbiology.
� Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Fountain of Youth.
� The first Indian restaurant in London, 1810.
� Dress made from World War Two silk escape maps.
� Who was luckiest in the American Revolution?
� Just for fun: An oldie but goodie: copywriter proofreading marks explained.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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