Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England
You're Dead to Me
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A New Trim for Your Bonnet, Miss Chateau
The things that you selected varied massively, according to social class. You'd open with something quite cheap, like a ribbon, and then escalate towards the end, offering things like rings and jewelry. Middling and genteel, man would gift accessories such as gloves or gatters to tie up your stockings. Oh my god, they are saucy those Georgians. And then, stay busks. You'd insert a stay bus down the front of her corset. They'd be engraved with things like hearts and flowers and initials. Some have little secret compartments in the back that you could unscrew and put a lock of hair. That is the dick pick of the Georgian
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