Breakfast Links: Week of January 18, 2016

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Time to get out your ice skates: Gillray's Elements of Skating, 1805.
• The great rocking chair riots of 1901 in New York's Madison Square Park.
• Image: Jane Austen's writing desk.
• The world's first hunk : why we're obsessed with muscle-men.
• A squash does in fact hold dried blood of beheaded Louis XVI.
• Falkirk tartan is oldest in Britain, dating back to Roman times.
• The ideal marriage , according to novels (and it's male writers who tend to portray love as something mysterious and irrational.)
• Image: Portrait by self-taught itinerant painter Ammi Phillips, c1815.
• Oh, red shoes ! Red pumps with moosehair embroidery, c1850-1870.
• This is wonderful: What Estella saw.
• More similar than you'd think: how Victorian daily habits compare to ours today.
• Make-up and medicine in the Middle Ages.
• This 19hc French policeman's amulet includes a piece of a hangman's rope and a dried slice of a murderer's skin.
• Big Hair of the 1960s in snapshots.
• Check out the on-line exhibition for the MuseumFIT's Denim: Fashion's Frontier - including a pair of 1830s denim work pants.
• If, like most of us, you can't get to Glasgow for the Century of Style exhibition, you can still download the app.
• Image: Vintage London underground poster.
• Are you (or your daughter, or granddaughter) part of the Felicity generation?
• Ogling another man's girl in 1912 cost a NY salesman his life.
• A tailor  looks for customers so he can support his "very distress'd Family," 1766.
• Pye Corner : flames, poltergeists, and bodysnatchers.
• Mud hovels , mean houses, and natural philosophy in early 19thc India.
• Image: F.Scott Fitzgerald's financial ledger for 1925.
• Fashion never sleeps: looking back at the last time wearing pajamas in public was in style.
• The " virgin's disease " that could only be cured by sex.
• David Bowie in historical costume.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.