When It's the 1830s and Your Sleeves Do the Thing

^ By Joseph Karl Stieler, 1830

^ In a similar dress and what is probably the same brooch. (Note baby playing with her bracelet.) With her son Carl Theodor, known as "Gackel." (It's no "Plorn", but it's headed that direction.) By Eduard de Ron (I think?), 1840

^ With her husband, Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria, by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1828

^ Possibly by Joseph Stieler

requested by: anon

requested by: @goodgrammaritan

request: zigzag patterns

"You're a boy now, my son, but soon you will wear the sleeves of a man, like your father."

On the other hand, I do love to imagine what kind of silly clothing and hairstyles may have been inflicted on a historical person in childhood. Was he a child in the 1780-1790s, like your average Noomer? Maybe he was buttoned up in a little skeleton suit with a mullet and some very unfortunate short bangs!

Was he a man in the mid-19th century? Let's speculate on his 1820-1830s childhood, dressed up in gigot sleeves with a frilly collar and/or low neckline!

La Mode, Pl. 211, 18 février 1832, Paris. Capote ornée d'une plume frimatée. Robe de velours brodée en soie et garnie de martre. Manchon brodé. Manteau de cachemire Français. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library