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  • EH

    Is that a Bud Light Lime bottle being balanced on that guy’s nose?

    • vrplumber

      how droll :-[

  • rattypilgrim

    Edwardian women weren’t wearing corsets.  Corsets were so Victorian.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Queen Mary (Mary of Teck), 1901, during the reign of Edward VII in the black.  And 1902 in the lighter color.

      • rattypilgrim

        If you look at later Edwardian period  you’ll see how more natural the profile became, almost Georgian as in Jane Austen’s time.  Only tens years after 1900 but the wasp waist look was dead.

        • rattypilgrim

          Kind of a mixed bag, actually, but definitely transitioning into the 20th century, less inhibiting clothing.

    • Gulliver

      Wrong Edward, I’m afraid:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gorey

  • fredges

    Who cares if it’s “period correct”, it looks like a most wonderful time! So much creativity! More like a time-travellers ball, eh? And these people are not just “gluing gears on it and calling it steampunk”.

    • EH

      Timepunk