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Painting of a family game of checkers ("jeu de dames") by French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly, c. 1803. Fashion in the period 1795–1820 in European and European-influenced countries saw the final triumph of undress or informal styles over the brocades, lace, periwigs and powder of the earlier 18th century.
1840s in Western fashion. Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort at home, 1841. Her dress shows the fashionable silhouette, with its pointed waist, sloping shoulder, and bell-shaped skirt. 1840s fashion in European and European-influenced clothing is characterized by a narrow, natural shoulder line following the exaggerated puffed sleeves of the ...
1820s in Western fashion. Shopping in Paris, 1822: The woman wears a demure bonnet, a shawl, and gloves over her dress. The man wears a top hat, long coat, tall collar, and striped trousers with straps under his shoes, 1822. A dressed up couple on a stroll. During the 1820s in European and European-influenced countries, fashionable women's ...
Nelson received a tape of the song from Saturday Night Live Band bassist Tony Garnier after performing on the show [11] in the mid to late 1980s. According to Sublette, "Willie took it from there" [6] though Nelson recently found that demo in a drawer among a stack of his own while recording unreleased songs for iTunes at his Spicewood, Texas, home studio.
A basque is an item of women's clothing. The term, of French origin, originally referred to types of bodice or jacket with long tails, and in later usage a long corset, characterized by a close, contoured fit and extending past the waistline over the hips. It is so called because the original French fashion for long women's jackets was adopted from Basque traditional dress. In contemporary ...
Coon songs were a genre of music that presented a stereotype of Black people. They were popular in the United States and Australia from around 1880 [1] to 1920, [2] though the earliest such songs date from minstrel shows as far back as 1848, when they were not yet identified with "coon" epithet. [3]
Lyricist (s) Herbert Farjeon. " I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales " is a 1927 song by Herbert Farjeon and Harold Scott written at the height of the popularity of Edward, Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII of the United Kingdom. It was inspired by a 1920s incident at the Ascot Cabaret Ball ...
Burlington Bertie. " Burlington Bertie " is a music hall song composed by Harry B. Norris in 1900 and notably sung by Vesta Tilley. It concerns an aristocratic young idler who pursues a life of leisure in the West End of London. Burlington is an upmarket London shopping arcade associated with luxury goods.