soviet chess | napoleonic wars | lolita fashion

As it turns out, there was such a thing as Culturally/Politically Topical Embroidery on Men’s Waistcoats. It started post-1783, but, for obvious reasons, gained steam post-1789. Some had a bust of Rousseau (or Voltaire, depending on which side in that particular argumentative fandom one took) embroidered on theirs, some had scenes from the theatrical comedies they liked, some had symbols of the unity of three estates of the nation against the royal despotism, such as the episcopal crook, the sword, and the spade bundled together in a sheaf.

Some just went for slogans, such as “vaincre ou mourir” (victory or death).

The decline and fall of this fashion craze came in about 1792, when the Journal de la mode et du goût reported men's waistcoats had become almost universally red ("gilets presque tous rouges"), and that the journal had virtually stopped describing men's fashion because it had ceased to change.

B. Larsen " Many people consider Fischer "A big child" and to some extent, that's true. However, we mustn't forget that children are sometimes very cunning and manage to impose their will on others with great dexterity. After Denver, both I and Petrosian warned after Buenos Aires that Fischer should never make concessions, and yet Spassky turned out to be an obedient executor of his will several times in Reykjavik... "

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