Unhand me. Photo from my collection, no info.
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Given some ongoing discussions, might I ask,on this fine 1830s Thursday, if you have any contemporary portrayals of men in fashions that make a good display of their legs?:D
Do I ever! By coincidence, last night I was looking through the Gavarni artwork in the Boston Public Library collection, and found Un Bal - À la Chaussée d'Antin.
Men in evening costume galore, with their elegant tiny feet and snug pantaloons, but unfortunately the size of the image and resolution isn't very good.
There's at least some evidence of men padding their calves, as late as 1834. That might be the case for a gentleman emulating the look of this 1835 fashion plate (Rijksmuseum):
The 1830s may not be a time of male legs vacuum-sealed in stockinette like the 1810s, but they remain an area of focus, especially as stripes and checks appear with the 1840s on the horizon. From La Mode in 1830, a fashion plate after a drawing by Paul Gavarni (Rijksmuseum):
The fellow in the red hunting outfit has an appreciative audience!
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fluffiest of all turkey legs
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give me a skirt that won't grope me
If someone would start selling those nifty suffragette pantaloons you can bicycle in I bet they could sell a bunch.
But every skirt in stores looks like a horrible tube that will rutch up on your tush as you walk like an handsy subway creeper; you try to walk in little tiny steps. Sitting without flashing? Some kind of mysterious party trick.
Then there's a whole article in the fashion section hand wringing if skirts that aren't tight are "too conservative"
If that bothers you? Pantaloon!
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My betrothed came up to me with my pants to go on a walk and said, “My pantaloons for my panta-lady!”
I laughed so hard I almost threw up.
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Little Cutie by Todd Wynia
Via Flickr:
This cute little guy is a juvenile black-throated sparrow. As the name suggests, as it matures, it will develop a black throat and bib. I just love the little pantaloons its wearing. The black throated sparrow is one of a couple dozen or so indigenous species of sparrows in North America. Interesting, at least to me, is that they are unrelated to the house sparrow which were introduced to the U.S. from Europe in 1851 in Brooklyn, New York.
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It's the cartoon you never knew you needed in your life 💚
Plus pantaloons may be the best word in English to say 😁
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1831 fashion plate in La Mode, art by Paul Gavarni. (Rijksmuseum)
The three gentlemen are in evening costume (still brightly coloured at this time), wearing dress shoes with some nice hairstyles on display. Their pantaloons/trousers are tight-fitting, ankle-length, and don't appear to have falls. According to Handbook of English Costume in the 19th Century by Phillis and C. Willett Cunnington, men's pantaloons could have a fly opening after 1825.
Here's a similar pair of American men's trousers in the Met Collection, dated 1830-1839:
Pantaloons with a foot strap are more characteristic of the 1830s; this 1826 fashion plate detail shows them buttoned at the ankle, with pumps and embroidered stockings.
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