Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Nice collection, I just finished an Atkins frozen meal. :^)
Posted on 08/12/2018 5:03:55 PM PDT by SamAdams76
One of our modern fallacies is that only homosexual men care about their appearance. The great emperors, warlords, explorers, scientists, revolutionaries, and duellists of the past were dandy dressers by our standards. Some men competed in taste and expenditure, while others took a stand on high-minded simplicity.
I wish everyone (starting with my kids) would adopt some standards, instead of looking like derelicts. It’s counter-entropic!
Nobody disagrees about dressing clean. Dressing in a clean-cut manner is one thing. But we were talking about dandies and homos. There’s a reason real men don’t dress that way anymore
What goes up must come down.
There could be an interesting sequel to this article.
Dandies and homos aren’t always the same group. In some contexts, dandies are the great womanizers. Why should women throw themselves away on slobs? Well, now they do, with those revolting rappers, but in the past, a lot of loose women looked for a man who made an effort on his appearance.
Every corner was a latrine. Eeew.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Nice collection, I just finished an Atkins frozen meal. :^)
Surely he ate his desert with a fork.
In 2011, the Heritage Foundation produced a report on US Poverty using the annual US Census Report on Poverty as a source. The quick quote from this is "The typical “poor” American lives in an air-conditioned house or apartment and has cable TV, a car, multiple color TVs, a DVD player, and a VCR among other conveniences." A significant mention in this report is that "Some 96 percent of poor parents report their children were never hungry at any time in the prior year." Now this gives us a very bare and basic basis to compare abilities but even subtracting technologies for comparable abilities is instructive!
Louis XIV had choices in food far beyond any of his subjects but even a poverty-level American has an incredibly larger and more healthy selection on a 24-hour basis! Louis XIV had choices in travel by coach (shake, rattle & roll) or by horseback which means travel times in days. Public transportation by bus or rail would put Louis in ecstasy (private car please) let alone the private automobile for hundreds of miles per day! Entertainment is a SIGNIFICANTLY BIG difference! Louis XIV had court musicians and royal composers but even with these there was a limited repertoire available. A subscription to any of the streaming music apps has more music than Louis XVI heard in his entire lifetime, EVEN IF YOU LIMIT IT TO MUSIC COMPOSED BEFORE AND DURING HIS LIFETIME! Add to this that a modern American can listen & fall asleep to an orchestra or a pop band without them even being in the room!
Endless more can be added on vaccinations and other health issues as well as easy access to information and history. In all regards except for public adulation and the ability of an absolute monarch to 'dispose' of deplorables, the impoverished American hsa it all over this Sun King, Louis XVI!
For modern dentistry alone, and a fast food hamburger, King Louis XIV would happily trade places with any one of us!
You don’t miss what you never knew. Example; we all used to drive around to new locations often using maps or asking for directions. GPS guidance? What was that? Now the doggone phone with map and voice commands highlights our every turn. I mean it’s great but we survived just fine prior to that invention.
For an interesting perspective on what life in pre-Revolution France might have been like (rich and poor alike), I recommend the French TV series “Nicolas le Floch”, available on MHZ Networks.
If you were his official, would you really risk painting him fat?
That’s because the king dictated that his portraits would make him look good; as all kings of the time did. It’s good to be the king.
Yeah, eat and dine, but you wonder about the poor bast*rd who emptied his chamber pot.
Everything I ever learned about foppish dress I learned from Adam and the Ants.
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