#abby cox

[marzipanandminutiae]

the new Abby Cox video is so good and reminds me of the Spongebob Driver's License meme

"so everyone involved in this incident was likely tipsy or at the very least, tired (quite possibly both)?"

"yes"

"and the sort of crinoline most blamed for fire deaths- in unreliable news stories -wasn't even in fashion anymore?"

"yes"

"and Mary Wilde and her partner were dancing around the room at high speed, which can make even narrower skirts or men's tailcoats flare out and the trajectory of the couple difficult to control?"

"yes"

"and the servants had probably removed the grate from the fire to start banking it for the night, leaving the open flame unguarded?"

"yes"

"and there was more fire than usual involved in this party because it was Halloween?"

"yes"

"and Emily may have tried to beat out the fire with her own skirt, a plausible explanation for how it spread to her clothes as well?"

"yes"

"and both girls fell or were rolled down a hard stone staircase before they died, with no autopsy ever being performed on their bodies to rule out internal injuries from that as a cause of death?"

"yes"

"so wearing crinolines was barely a contributing factor, given everything else that went wrong."

"no it was definitely the crinolines' fault"

#dress history #fashion history #clothing history #abby cox #victorian #I'd better not hear a bad-faith peep in the notes about That One Video She Did That Everyone Lost Their Reason Over

[thelibraryghost]

A Young Person's Guide to 18th-Century Western Fashion

unabridged version at blogspot

General info Cox, Abby. "I Wore 18th-Century Clothing *Every Day for 5 YEARS & This Is What I Learned (Corsets Aren't Bad!)." YouTube. May 10, 2020. Cullen, Oriole. “Eighteenth-Century European Dress.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. Glasscock, Jessica. "Eighteenth-Century Silhouette and Support." In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. Accessories Banner, Bernadette. "Women's Pockets Weren't Always a Complete Disgrace | A Brief History: England, 15th c - 21st c." YouTube. April 10, 2021. Colonial Williamsburg. "#TradesTuesday: Men's Accessories." YouTube. June 13, 2021. Murden, Sarah. "The Georgian era fashion for straw hats." All Things Georgian. December 6, 2018. Cosmetics & hygiene Cox, Abby. "I Followed an 18th-Century Moisturizer & Sunscreen Recipe & it kinda worked??." YouTube. February 21, 2021. Cox, Abby. "We tried making *5* different 250 year old rouge (blush) recipes || [real] regencycore makeup." YouTube. August 29, 2021. JYF Museums. "Hygiene in the 18th Century | From the Farm to the Army." YouTube. August 21, 2021. Décor Heckscher, Morrison H. “American Rococo.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. Munger, Jeffrey. “French Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. Formal wear SnappyDragon. "This dressing gown changed fashion forever : the feminist history of going out in loungewear." YouTube. April 15, 2022. Stowell, Lauren. "The Many Types of 18th Century Gowns." American Duchess. March 15, 2013. Zebrowska, Karolina. "Cottagecore Style Is Much Older Than You Think." YouTube. June 30, 2021. Hair care Cox, Abby. "I made 250-year-old Hair Products Using Original Recipes (and animal fat...)." YouTube. November 7, 2021. Cox, Abby. "I tried a 300-year-old hair care routine for a year & this is what I learned (it's awesome!)." YouTube. January 23, 2022. Cox, Abby. "What's the Deal with 18th Century Wigs? (and why Bridgerton really messed this up)." YouTube. June 1, 2023. Laundry Cox, Abby. "Making 300 Year Old SLIME for Laundry Day." YouTube. June 15, 2023. Townsends. "Historical Laundry Part 2: No Washing Machine, No Dryer, Hit It With A Stick?" YouTube. June 3, 2019. Outer- & working-wear JYF Museum. "Getting Dressed | Clothing for an 18th Century Middling Woman." YouTube. March 18, 2021. Major, Joanne. "The practicalities of wearing riding habits, and riding ‘en cavalier’." All Things Georgian. March 12, 2019. Rudolph, Nicole. "What did Pirates ACTUALLY Wear? Fashion at Sea in the 18th c & Our Flag Means Death Costumes." YouTube. May 8, 2022. Shoes Chin, Cynthia E. "Martha Washington's Shoes." George Washington's Mount Vernon. No date. Murden, Sarah. "18th-century shoes." All Things Georgian. December 15, 2015. Rudolph, Nicole. "Real 18th century Shoes? Historical Shoemaker Examines an Antique." YouTube. December 13, 2020. Textiles Cox, Abby. "18th Century Printed Cotton Do's & Don't's." American Duchess. December 23, 2019. Stowell, Lauren. "Fabrics for the 18th Century and Beyond." American Duchess. June 14, 2021. Townsends. "Oil Cloth - Waterproof Coverings for Your Campsite." YouTube. July 30, 2018. Undergarments Major, Joanne. "Quilted Petticoats: worn by all women and useful in more ways than one." All Things Georgian. November 20, 2018. Rudolph, Nicole. "Making 18th century Stays for the Ideal Body Shape : Historical Undergarments." YouTube. August 12, 2023. SnappyDragon. "RUMP ROAST : Ranking historical fashion's wildest fake butt pads." YouTube. October 27, 2023. Townsends. "Sewing Histories' Most Popular Garment - The Fabric Of History - Townsends." YouTube. September 3, 2022.

#reference #history #abby cox #bernadette banner #fashion #hair care #hairstyle #youtube #video #nicole rudolph #townsends #us history #american history #colonial williamsburg #jamestown #georgian era #rococo #1700s #american duchess #mount vernon #bridgerton #the metropolitan museum of art #our flag means death

[transjudas]

for anyone on the internet, but especially for people who frequent tiktok, Abby Cox has uploaded a video talking about the newest trend on tiktok: “face reading”. She specifically talks about how face reading is just another name for physiognomy (much like phrenology but for facial features) that has been used to centuries to uphold racism and white supremacy.

as always, these kinds of things often are made to seem innocuous, but at the same time can easily be debunked and established as racist and nazi rhetoric. so please please be aware of what you’re taking for fact online and what kinds of practices you are learning and how they are impacting and building dangerous biases.

don’t descend into nazi pipelines because you aren’t thinking critically and/or don’t want to be told you’re wrong and part of a traumatic system of white supremacy.

#abby cox #racism #tik tok #Youtube

[feministdragon]

the historical clothing youtubers like Bernadette Banner and Abby Cox like historical clothes because the shaping of the clothes in the form of the corset and padding do the work of creating the fashionable silhouette of the day, and you don’t have to change the body through diet or surgery.

Which yeah, of course modern diet and surgery culture is ridiculously harmful, no question.

And by using clothes and not the body to achieve the look, means the clothes and not the body bear the brunt of the pressure for women to be marked into a social status (decorative, servant class, sexually available, not quite human). which is. truly better than messing up your health

but they don’t see (or at least don’t mention publicly) that the real problem is not the clothes/body at all but simply that women are required to be marked at all

#corset debate #historical fashion #love their channels though #i’ve learned so much sewing from them and their friends #bernadette banner #abby cox #feministdragon

[juniorcaptain]

“Patiently” waiting for the historical clothing/costuming YouTubers to drag the Hanes commercial claiming undergarments pre-1901 were uncomfortable or painful

#Bernadette Banner #Rachel Maksy #Costube #Karolina Zebrowska #Abby Cox #Morgan Donner #Hanes

[camryemerald]

i trust yall on here know enough about history/can sniff out nazi bullshit well enough that you dont need this but just in case...

heres a video explaining the problem with that "face reading" cough cough phrenology cough cough thing thats been going viral on tiktok and why yall should be suspicious of it

#tiktok bullshit #abby cox #face reading #tiktok making awful things trendy again #history #honestly wasnt expecting much after they trendified car theft #but this???? #really?????? #Youtube

[brightgnosis]

"Athleisure: Destroying Fashion & the Environment" from Abby Cox

#Athleisure: Destroying Fashion & the Environment 🫠 #Abby Cox #Face & Body #Ye True Olden Days #Youtube

[foxytonic]

Hi, if you’re genuinely into face reading, phrenology, or physiognomy, I greatly recommend watching this video and/or reading up on the origins of it, and if you’re still into that stuff afterward, then kindly leave my blog the fuck alone. Physiognomy is racist. Always has been, always will be. It’s not science. Hell, it’s not even pseudoscience! It is just racist, plain and simple, and I absolutely fucking despise it!

#fuck racism #phrenology #physiognomy #face reading #systemic racism #scientific racism #tiktok #face reading TikTok #abby cox #history #historian #YouTube historian #so glad I got rid of TikTok honestly #Youtube

[wherefancytakesme]

Fashion history YT expressing their worst fears like,

#dress history #fashion history #bernadette banner #abby cox #karolina zebrowska #was gonna use the ż but there's no tag for that #oh boy here i go shitposting again #not woy

[6riffith]

Abby Cox usually has great takes but this "where are the femmes!!!" shit in her latest video has me at my wits' end. If you mean women, just say women. "Femmes" is not more inclusive. It just makes you sound like you believe transmascs have an identical amount of privilege to cis men somehow. Even though I can't name a single famous transmasc designer at all. Not even a living one.

#abby cox #mini rant

[marzipanandminutiae]

I think the line between representing gnc women in the past and interpreting the NLOG trope as applying to any gnc woman in fiction is difficult to chart—I don’t deny that authors do this, but the thing is that real historical women did feel like this for very legitimate reasons, even if they come off as condescending today (I’d be pissed too if I was told I Had to wear skirts and corsets, and I am someone who personally really enjoys wearing skirts and corsets). Representing women who did not conform to gender norms on various different ways is important, and I don’t think Cox’s critique of any of her chosen movies/shows is particularly convincing in part because she does not acknowledge this at all—and while not every YouTube video essay has to be all things to all people, this is a touchy topic and some effort on her part would’ve been really appreciated, because it very much comes off as “gnc women make me uncomfortable” more than anything else.

See, I really don't get where the whole "she doesn't talk about real GNC women!!" thing comes from

because I am literally watching the video right now and, direct quote, "while rejecting traditional gender norms of their era happened, that doesn't mean it can only be expressed in the rejection of distinctly feminine articles of clothing..."

"And while I'm not saying there's anything wrong with breaking gender norms in historical dramas...Gentleman Jack is a good example of this...I'm frustrated with the reliance on 'Girly Bad! Boy Good!' clothing defaults...without what seems to be a second thought on how problematic it can actually be."

"The idea of creating the bloomers and the trousers could have come from this very genuine place of like 'I want...to be able to run...without having to deal with all these skirts around my legs.' And that is fair..."

and the big part, prefacing AN ENTIRE SECTION OF THE VIDEO: "Now, all that being said, I want to acknowledge the historic reality of women who did dress in masculine clothing." She actually goes further than I would in using they/them pronouns for George Sand (I have a "pronouns they used in life" policy, personally), and discusses in detail some examples of women who presented masculine at various times, for various reasons. She also gets in-depth about Gentleman Jack, and why the show was more authentic to Anne Lister's life (as a distinctly butch woman in the 1830s) for showing her having to bend slightly to accepted feminine modes of dress rather than just...sticking her in anachronistic pants all the time.

I don't think the video is perfect- it's clear what presentation Abby herself prefers, and thus she can sometimes muddy her own message. For example, to me it's clear that she's not saying it would be BAD for a suffragist character to be GNC, but it would be UNREALISTIC due to the emphasis the actual suffrage movement had to place on conventionally feminine attire to avoid distracting the press from their own message. But I can see how it might come off as "feminine suffragist character good, masc suffragist character bad" to someone with less baseline knowledge of the speaker's general views.

(It could also be hard to get that she's not decrying the rejection of feminine attire wholesale in criticizing Anne W*th an E, but rather saying that it's unfaithful to the character as originally written. Also she could have been clearer that the issue with Miss Stacy is that she would be INSTA-FIRED if, as a small-town teacher in the 1890s, she showed up to a town hall meeting in trousers. Like. I cannot overstate how fired she would get from any position overseeing children's education, as an outsider and not even an "accepted local eccentric," in a backwater like Avonlea.)

In short, while it has its issues, I don't really see that it's as horrible and prescriptivist a video as everyone makes it out to be. But you're entitled to your opinions, just as I am to mine.

#ask #anon #long post #costube #abby cox #dress history #historical fiction

[thelibraryghost]

A Young Person's Introduction to Late 19th-Century Western Fashion

hello fellow youths

General information Banner, Bernadette. "Exposing Victorian Influencers Who 'Facetuned' Their Photos. (Photo Manipulation was EVERYWHERE)." YouTube. July 17, 2021. English Heritage. "Fashion Through History: Episode 1 – Victorians." YouTube. February 9, 2023. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "100 Years of Fashion // The Fashionable Plus Size Silhouette from 1820-1910." YouTube. June 5, 2021. Victoria and Albert Museum. "100 Years of Fashionable Womenswear: 1830s – 1930s | V&A." YouTube. July 18, 2023. Zebrowska, Karolina. "Victorian Fashion Is Not What You Think It Is." YouTube. March 19, 2019.

Accessories Banner, Bernadette. ""Afro-Victorian": Bringing Historical Black Women's Dress into the 21st Century w Cheyney McKnight." YouTube. October 20, 2021. Cox, Abby. "A Fashion Historian Explains the History of the Handbag." YouTube. January 26, 2023. Rudolph, Nicole. "Dangerous Things in Victorian Pockets : Mens Pocket History." YouTube. March 2, 2024. Rudolph, Nicole. "The Controversial History of Color Season Analysis." YouTube. November 4, 2023. Zebrowska, Karolina. "Disgusting and Creepy Victorian Fashion Trends." YouTube. October 17, 2018.

Bustles and hoopskirts Donner, Morgan. "Weirdest Victorian Invention: The Bustle-Chair (and we made one)." YouTube. November 20, 2020. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "100 Years of Underwear // The Changing Plus Size Shape from Regency to Victorian to Edwardian." YouTube. May 1, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "All About Bustles! A Deep Dive into 1870s Fashions." YouTube. December 26, 2023. Rudolph, Nicole. "Why were Victorian Hips Controversial?" YouTube. September 12, 2021.

Cosmetics Birchwood, Vasi. "1800s Makeup Is Not What You Think." YouTube. July 21, 2023. English Heritage. "Queen Victoria Makeup Tutorial | History Inspired | Feat. Amber Butchart and Rebecca Butterworth." YouTube. May 20, 2019. Zebrowska, Karolina. "I Used Only Victorian Cosmetics For a Week." YouTube. July 26, 2023.

Fabrics Rudolph, Nicole. "Did Silk Spontaneously Combust in the Victorian Era?" YouTube. August 8, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "The History of Elastic." YouTube. July 4, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "The Truth About Arsenic in the Victorian Era." YouTube. January 24, 2021.

Gowns Bullat, Samantha. "Dress Historian Analyzes Victorian Mourning Clothing of the Mid-19th Century." YouTube. March 14, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "All About 1860's Fashion // What did Civil War-era fashion look like?" YouTube. November 12, 2022. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "How did fashion evolve from 1850-1859? // 1850's Fashion Deep Dive." YouTube. October 1, 2022. Rudolph, Nicole. "Victorian Fast Fashion? The Truth about the History of Disposable Clothing." YouTube. February 6, 2022. Zebrowska, Karolina. "19th Century Fashion - How To Tell Different Decades Apart?" YouTube. November 17, 2017.

Hair care and styling Banner, Bernadette. "Following a Victorian Home Made Hair Care Routine (1889)." YouTube. September 11, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "Getting Dressed in an 1888 Daisy Costume // Easy Bustle-Era Hair Tutorial." YouTube. November 13, 2020. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "Getting Dressed in the 1870s & 1874 Hairstyle Tutorial." YouTube. February 23, 2020. Rudolph, Nicole. "Why did Victorian Women Cut their Hair Short?" YouTube. December 18, 2022. Laundry and housekeeping English Heritage. "A Tour of the Laundry - The Victorian Way." YouTube. September 6, 2019. English Heritage. "How to Wash Up - The Victorian Way." YouTube. March 18, 2021. English Heritage. "Laying the Table at Christmas – The Victorian Way." YouTube. December 14, 2022. Walkley, Christina, and Vanda Foster. Crinolines and Crimping Irons: Victorian Clothes: How They Were Cleaned and Cared for. Peter Owen Limited: London, 1978.

Outerwear and working wear Birchwood, Vasi. "What Irish Working Women Wore in the Late 19th Century | I Made the Clothing of My Irish Ancestors." YouTube. June 23, 2023. English Heritage. "The Real Mrs Crocombe | Part Four: A Victorian Cook's Outfit." YouTube. July 5, 2018. Stowell, Lauren. "It's Hot: Let's Look At Some Bathing Suits." American Duchess. August 18, 2023. Rudolph, Nicole. "The History of Jeans, T-shirts, and Hoodies: Time Travel 101." YouTube. March 20, 2022. Zebrowska, Karolina. "The 1851 Women's Pants That Made The Victorians Go Crazy." YouTube. March 2, 2020.

Shoes Rudolph, Nicole. "100 years of Antique Boots." YouTube. February 10, 2024. Rudolph, Nicole. "How to Make Regency & Victorian Shoes: Beginner Shoemaking." YouTube. June 27, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "The Myth of Tiny Feet "Back Then"." YouTube. September 26, 2021.

Undergarments Banner, Bernadette. "I Wore a (Medical) Corset for 5 Years. How do Victorian Corsets Compare?" YouTube. November 7, 2020. Banner, Bernadette. "Making Some Frilly Victorian Underwear || 1890s Combinations." YouTube. February 9, 2019. Birchwood, Vasi. "What Victorians Wore to Bed." YouTube. May 5, 2023. Cox, Abby. "I made weird Victorian underwear (it's a knit onesie) & a pretty 1890s corset || historical sewing." YouTube. March 21, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "How 8 Different Historical Corsets Affect the Same Plus Size Body." YouTube. December 12, 2020. Rudolph, Nicole. "100 Years of Corset History: How 8 Corsets affect the same body." YouTube. November 29, 2020. Zebrowska, Karolina. "How Did Victorian Ladies Stay Warm in Winter? || THE EXPERIMENT." YouTube. January 22, 2021. Zebrowska, Karolina. "How Did Victorian Women Deal With Their Periods?" YouTube. October 17, 2019.

#victorian era #history #fashion #karolina zebrowska #youtube #video #nicole rudolph #bernadette banner #abby cox #lady rebecca fashions #american duchess #shoes #hair care #hairstyle #morgan donner #1800s #1860s #us history #american history #cosmetics #gilded age #reconstruction era #1850s #1870s #menstruation #1880s #1890s #gibson girl #reference #edwardian era

[katruna]

#abby cox #i wore a tight laced corset for twelve hours #Youtube

[devious-little-milkmaiden]

Just looking through patterns when:

#abby cox #meme #shitpost #sewing #1700s

[skeletonmob]

Another video, because I keep seeing memes about how booktok and 'the youth' are are just absolutely DESTROYING the publishing industry and whatever.

#there's always going to be stuff you're embarrassed by #fashion trends will come and go #and people deserve to spend their time doing what they enjoy #calm down #booktok #publishing #writers on tumblr #iron flame #fourth wing #history #victorian era #abby cox #Youtube #wattpad #ao3

[theroguequeenaniki]

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