The Miserables Month: #23 Last

The Miserables Month: #23 Last

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Final one of this batch! A Combeferre doing some research for someone who didn’t leave a url. I hope your dissertation went well!!

Bousingo Fashion: Rash Waistcoats and Scarlet Opinions

something of a companion piece to my recent post on Romantic fashions, dealing with a subset of it –specifically, the Bousingo style, or. What Would Bahorel Wear?  

( @badassindistress​, this is for you XD)

First, for those who’ve missed my other rambles on the Bousingo/Bouzingo/Bousingots group, a quick description of their general Deal, from Jehan Valter’s account of the  premiere of Hugo’s le roi s’amuse:

No doubt, the Bousingots had fought at Hernani and broke their share of seats, but …The Bosingouts alone were at the barricades of 1832. There is the difference between them and the Jeune-France,… while the Young-France, inspired by the Byronnian sadnesses, hid their health and their good humor under elegiac and morbid exteriors, while they were satisfied with the freedom of the enjambement, and that they dreamed of revolutions as those of art, the Bousingots manifested political sentiments of extreme violence at least in form.

There’s a LOT of room to debate this description, but it gets across the general contemporary view of the group: the street-fighters types of Romantic republicanism, or of Republican romanticism; whichever side of it you like to emphasize.  The stereotype of their character was…well, Bahorel,pretty much to the letter. Hugo knew what he was writing, down to the Rash Waistcoats. Bahorel dresses Bousingo!  which means a very identifiable and politically loaded style But what exactly did that look like?

Let’s get some more 19C quotes in here!

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charming & terrible, etc

“The reds, the reds!” retorted Bahorel. “A queer kind of fear, bourgeois. For my part I don’t tremble before a poppy, “ 

First experiment with Rebelle software (and thus belated) work for The Miserables Month Day, Week 1 Day 6, Flower!  There is. So much more I could do with this but I wanted to go ahead and post it XD I love these brushes though! (this is mostly done with oilpaint brushes, and with the pen for the face and hand! )

tagging @themiserablesmonth even though this is ghastly late, as everything probably will be at this point; thanks for getting me drawing again!!

ETA: sometimes people feel shy about commenting or leaving tags or, IDK, having tag conversations on other people’s posts? ; please always feel free to be sociable on my posts! just don’t be a jerk to anyone. 

ID: stylized image of Bahorel, a bearded man in a waistcoat, in a field of poppies. The waistcoat pattern is made of stylized poppy buds.  The picture is in green and red, with yellow highlights at the poppy centers and for Bahorel’s eyes./end ID

10 - light

he can see now

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