Anna Karenina & Alexei Vronsky in Anna Karenina. Vronsky story (tv mini-series, Russia, 2017)
#men undressing women: [drakeNO.jpg]#men assisting in dressing women: [drakeYES.jpg]#heâs really concentrating in getting those laces sitting right#what a good boy#anna karenina: vronskyâs story#gif harrietvane
On of the things that I learned in high school, which was just one of those facts that was just kind of like, âYeah?â but is also one of those facts that you rarely see represented, that it does sort of startle into this idea of âwait, is that right.â Men absolutely helped their wives and lovers dress, especially in times when dress had become complicated enough that women could not get dressed alone (ties and buttons that had to fasten in the back for one reason or another, for example). If a woman didnât have a servant to help her dress, and most women did not, it was the job of her husband once she was married.
This leads to the interesting trope of a husband discovering his wifeâs loverâs handiwork, for example in this 1840 illustration from Paris le Soir. The caption reads:Â âThatâs funny! This morning I made a knot in this lace, and tonight thereâs a bow!â
Honestly I LIVE for scenes like this and if you tell me thereâs one in a book or movie I will eat it up with a spoon. Tearing each otherâs clothes off in the throes of passion is fine I guess but itâs nothiiiiiiiiing to the ROMANCE of tenderly and meticulously redressing your lover afterwards
