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  1. "I prefer to take 8 times longer to complete a simple task" listen, you did not have to come for me like that, Miss Banner.
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  2. When you really need a petticoat, and the Queen and his Lordship drop a new video. Also "ye, olde, olden days before the plague," made me smile. No idea why. Dark humour? Probably.
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  3. I love the quiet chattering of His Lordship. Makes everything so much better 💕. "forever trapped" is such a mood. My cat just lay down on me. There goes the next half an hour
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  4. This is just a comment to show appreciation for also including non-white people as historical reference and for how you cite the sources. Thank you so much!!
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  5. I do indeed enjoy a thorough trip into the history of undies. My goodness, did past humans enjoy sketching naked bums... lol
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  6. As fantastic as the sewing is, the one thing that never gets enough recognition is Bernadette Banner's superb editing. The same level of loving attention to detail is evident in the construction of each video as in the projects that they document and sometimes I just like to watch them because they're so beautifully put together. What could be a simplistic tutorial style video full of smash cuts and sped up footage has a wonderful languid, almost meditative pace, and crafts a narrative around the creation of the pieces with an immaculate sense of timing.
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  7. That introduction was incredible. I would definitely enjoy historical audiobooks narrated by you to music!
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  8. This is nothing more than being historically iconic
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  9. Bernadette: "the salespeople here dont stalk you" My introvert self: Runs and swims all the way to London
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  10. "We are not amused" for the caption.
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  11. Thank you for this video! There is so much I want to say, but for now I’ll comment on 13:01 and fainting/ swooning. Normally breathing is the primary concern (the first question I usually get is “but how do you breathe?!”) but fainting and the vasovagal response is often due to changes in blood pressure resulting in the brain receiving less blood. Beyond the entire Victorian culture around swooning, it can be caused by dehydration, overheating, hypoglycaemia, etc. But interestingly, some people who are diagnosed with blood pressure irregularities like postural orthostatic hypotension (POTS) (Edited to add the correction, it can be a genetic issue but can sometimes be idiopathic), have found that the corset helps regulate their fluctuating blood pressure and prevent fainting. Also, regarding broken ribs, which I see a lot of people mentioning in the comments - broken (human, not baleen) ribs cannot always be attributed to the corset. Many people today have broken ribs due to falling, being thrown from horses, domestic abuse, etc., which all existed in the Victorian era as well. Children’s jungle gyms at the turn of the century were wildly more dangerous than they’re designed to be today, often 20 feet high. Correlation =\= causation, so a skeleton of a corset wearer with signs of a broken rib doesn’t mean that the corset necessarily caused it.
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  12. In the novel, Holmes is described as wearing an Ulster coat not an Inverness. The differences are subtle. An Inverness has a longer cape and usually does not have sleeves. It depends on the decade whether it has sleeves or a full cape. Your choice of sleeves, then, is appropriate
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  13. When not entranced by your comments and analysis, I was thrilled to spy your latest witch bonnet atop your mannequin
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  14. The sleekness and boss nature of pinstriped fabric lends itself to making this beautiful garment so badass. Such a cool look. I love the higher waistline.
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  15. Such a brillant project! I’ve been obsessed with lingerie dresses for a while now and enjoyed the close ups immensely, thank you :) Can’t wait to see your dress coming into existence, the design looks gorgeous!
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  16. I’m danish, but I just want to let you know that I found a rump in an antique store and it was stuffed with fine hay and strands of lavender. Sorry for my poor English, hope you understand.
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  17. This was a great look at pad stitching! I do have to admit that when I saw Cathy in the background, I was hoping for some peanut gallery commentary and she did not fail! I would not be unhappy if Barbara came back to talk about flat patterning. :)
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  18. “I have teamed up with the Broadway costume industry” is such a powerful sentence
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  19. I'm a registrar for The Historic New Orleans Collection and you featured two portraits from our holdings in your video! It's always so nice to see the collections pop up in contemporary content. In Creole culture the headwraps are called "tignon", and I wear them very often. I love how it's a tradition that's endured so many centuries. I love Cheney's work and it was great seeing the two of you collab!
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  20. Bless Angela's extra ruffled glitter heart. This was content I didnt knownI needed. I almost flailed from the cuteness of the pumpkin pig and the bumble pig. Oh the giggles💙
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  21. "No matter how much I tried to preplan" ... Every artist ever simultaneously nods in knowing agreement.
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  22. I think most of the misconceptions about corsets stem from how they are presented in movies and other mass media. Someone being forced into a tight corset makes for a great analogy for being forced into the rules of society. And a girl saying „ugh, I hate my corset“ automatically establishes her as a badass, rule-breaking heroine. See: Elizabeth Swan, Tim Burton‘s Alice, ... It‘s important that we don‘t believe everything we see on TV, and maybe screenwriters should get some new clichees.
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  23. It is fascinating how much effort the put into being accurate while making the clothes functional. I haven't had to pleasure to see Hamilton yet, so I look forward to seeing it online.
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  24. Polyester clothing is fake news! Down with plastic dresses!
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  25. Tell me you're not a drinker without telling me you're not a drinker.
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  26. This could so easily be the historically accurate Crowley to Nicole's historically accurate Aziraphale! Love it!
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  27. i really enjoy the "trend" of costubers putting bloopers at the end of their videos both because i enjoy bloopers and also because i enjoy seeing these People in Historical Dress be goofy and humans and realistic, especially when surviving portraiture and paintings show us more stoic and serious sides of our ancestors i'm sure i could waffle on more but tl;dr i like blooper thank u
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  28. Oh wow, I actually know something about Victorian beauty that Bernadette Banner didn't! So, rosemary spirit is alcohol infused with rosemary. It's actually very simple to make: Just put a couple springs of rosemary in a neutral alcohol let set for a week or so. Likewise, a lot of the oils mentioned would have been infused oils---ie oils where the herbs/flowers were put in the oil and let to sit and absorb the essences. As opposed to essential oils which are made using a distilling process and are super concentrated and very expensive. In the 1890's those oils would primarily be available to perfume makers who would combine them with neutral bases. If you want to use essential oils in recipes like this, you need to dilute them first in neutral carrier oil like almond or coconut or even olive oil. The scent will then be much less overwhelming. Really enjoyed this video! Looking forward to the next one!
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  29. As a person who is very squishy and hourglass shaped to start with (because I'm plus sized in a more pear shaped format)... wearing a tight laced corset is the only way I've ever been able to comfortably wear a corset. If I wear a properly fitted corset more loosely laced, it doesn't sit properly on my waist or support large skirts without them hanging off my hips. And no part of tight lacing into a corset is painful for me as long as I'm wearing good fitted garments. Sitting down is... unpleasant, because I can't bend the way most modern chairs want, but everything else is fine. (I promise this isn't some sort of weird flex. For modern eyes, I still look "fat" when tight laced. But if you aren't thin to start with YMMV with corsets depending on your specific body. Even people with more fat vary in how the bones underneath want to compress or not.) I also want to say, I'm always extremely confused how actresses can't seem to understand that you breath up with your ribcage while laced in, not out through your belly. Obviously this isn't great for projecting your voice, but it's comfortable once you get used to it. Anybody who's ever been 8 months pregnant can attest that you don't suffocate when your lungs can't go down.
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  30. "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness" --Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms
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  31. It's a blustery day, my tea is brewed, a macaron was at the ready and this cozy video came at the perfect time for a cozy break.
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  32. We’re all going crazy from Covid quarantine. And when creative people do that it gets Interesting. :D
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  33. The Warren Featherbone company had a corporate office building in my hometown of Three Oaks, Michigan! The building still stands, and now houses the public library. They have some pretty cool information and displays on featherbone history.
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  34. "Straight up ankle in this establishment!" This was such a joy to watch. Loved seeing the work you put behind the scenes, from putting together an outfit using references to showing us a little bit on how you created the OnlyFans page. And I know this was about the ankles but I just loved seeing the shoes displayed so lovely in different angles, and the colour palettes you chose. Makes me want to pick up drawing tools and do some colour and composition studies! Also thank you for talking about the ankle myth and how it probably originated, and for not making this experiment a joke about people like sex workers who rely on this site as their main source of income, that was very appreciated.
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  35. Okay, this is awesome, and the people out there doing these tiktoks are seriously talented. Thank you for doing this! I just have one tiny issue... Timon is not a lemur. He is a meerkat.
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  36. Stay safe, Bernadette! Here in Norway most of us have been self-isolating for nearly three weeks, but not much has changed with regards to the virus. It is all so very surreal. Living through a major historical event isn't nearly as fun as I envisioned... Oh well, stay safe and take care!
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  37. Superhuman abilities: See electricity? Check! Make fireballs? Check! Kick ass in a corset? Double check! *Bernadette raises a hand "but that's not superhuman.." "We said DOUBLE CHECK!!"
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  38. (Also, roast aside, Deadpool has regenerative powers and he's pretty much known for not giving a shit if he hurts himself, so I'd 100% believe he wouldn't bother with a thimble even if he did know what it was and how to use one.)
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  39. sorry i haven't watched this video yet but in india we find out as early as in grade school history class, how during the industrial revolution colonisers destroyed our cottage industries of fine cotton weaving, and forced our cultivators to sell cheap cotton for british mills, and then forced us to buy their mill-manufactured clothing. because they needed quick profits corresponding to the speed of their machine production. so.. yes victorians definitely are responsible for fast fashion.
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  40. Their copy dress ironically is so badly made, you'd probably never get a win if you went after them for copying you. Also they could argue they were inspired by the old painting as well. What you can do, is contact them to have your image removed. And in the future you can post watermarked images on Instagram to render them useless for crooks like these guys. They will still try to use them, of course, but it becomes very obvious that they stole the image. I "watermark" all my images by hiding a little something in them, something you have to know where to look for in order to find it, that way I can always prove that I was the original creator, a hidden signature of sorts. A pattern of only a few pixels, but a pattern that would never naturally crop up in an image. Back when I was a coder, I did the same in my code, a little hidden comment somewhere deep in the code, to prove that I was the original coder. Of course when the picture is of your actual person, it is very easy to prove that it is yours hehe I just hate how they use an image of a quality handcrafted item to sell cheap crap, and if they do operate out of any country with some sort of consumer protection laws, false advertisement might be how you'd get them, as the end product is nothing like your image, at all. Btw, love how you turned something that would infuriate most creative people, into a teachable moment, and exposing them for the joke they are. :)
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  41. I loved how the 'larger woman' in NEVERS was also dressed impeccably and in period costuming. Everyone doesn't look the same......there were plus/curvy women then too! Love the series. Hope they make it into a forever series, not just a seven episode show.
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  42. I think a Dwarf lady would have a beard with braids. Lots of braids in various widths, pinned into curls and loops with lots of charms and cuffs and different color threads in it to make it look spectacular.
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  43. You've ended up with a beautiful garment there. At one point I was shaking my head "no" to flossing the top of the corset and ... I was wrong! Beautiful work again Bernadette. I should tell you that when I was at my historic village yesterday I took some cotton scraps to practice flat felled seams and for a first attempt I was quite pleased. :) I was also singing the virtues of your channel to my colleagues in the 1912 house.
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  44. There are so many great designs of rats (rat “humans”?) in the nutcracker ballet, I grew up watching the production by the Norwegian national ballet every year, and their interpretation was amazing! The rat king and queen were dressed in these suits that both gave associations to rat fur and to a rich suit in gold and rat heads! It was glorious 🐀 👑 🩰 children played the small rats/ mice 🐁 loved it!
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  45. Great parting shots.... You Really Blend in there quite well...
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  46. YAASS! I love the extra passion in this video 😍👌 ! GO GET 'UM BERNADETTE!!
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  47. One thing that I don't see enough of is hand-me-downs! I remember how my aunt would send these huge boxes every year, full of clothes that my cousin had grown out of. Those same clothes then went on to be given to my little sister when she got big enough. And even now that my sister is guaranteed to be the youngest for a while longer, my family never gets rid of clothes unless they're irreparably damaged, like stains or holes. I want more shows where younger family members wear something that their older family members wore seasons before! Have kids wear clothes that are decades out of style! Have the print on them be faded and worn!
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  48. I'm a cosplayer. In that community, there is nowadays also a fast fashion element. People will buy a trending sweatshop cosplay to wear at a singular event and then throw it out. To me, that is bonkers, because those are not cheap! That's about a hundred dollars per day per event, no entry included! How are people doing that? I cosplay mostly thrifted or carefully self-made things with a ton of details, because that's what I like. I don't fault people for not being able to do that, buying cosplay is perfectly fine. Heck, I've done it! However, please, RE-WEAR things. I admit I'm not always the best at that myself - but I am proud that I resell things I no longer wear and have not thrown anything away. The point being, consider cost per wear and be smart about it, and thrift whenever possible. Whether cosplaying or not.
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  49. I genuinely never even would have thought of the skirt walking up stairs thing my mind feels 🤯
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  50. Statistically quite a few people will watch this while on the toilet, it is almost poetic. ;)
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