As requested by the jewellery-loving Jennifer, here is an article from 1873.
It just goes to show, women will always suffer for fashion 🙂 I’m not sure what the Quaker gentleman was going to do with the breast-pin though!
Rockhampton Bulletin 19 Jun 1873 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51795445
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that’s a bit funny, another piece of jewellery would surely keep her warm… thankyou 🙂
No problem 🙂 I love requests, it gives me something concrete to look for instead of just wandering around waiting for something to catch my eye!
🙂 I’ll try and remember that, and send another request in.
They put things like this in the papers seemingly for no reason. They didn’t have funny pages so they just sprinkled these kinds of things through the serious stuff. I often wonder if people realized they were jokes or thought they were real!
back then… who knows, maybe they were for real..
lmao – oh that is a gem, sorry couldn’t resist 😉
I wondered what made her a fashionably lady. Perhaps she was supposed to be a fashionably /dressed/ lady….
lmao – an historical typo! What a find 😀
I was wondering that too. But that may be because I’m still in proofreading hell. LOL…
You poor thing, you’ll be seeing an unwanted typo in everything you read for now! 🙂
lol – I can empathize with that! Every time I think I’m finally done some new issue crops up! Chin up 😀