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I, Captain Jim, am a business woman. I work all the angles! Mr. Foxe, I shall pay you in cheese!

I thought that was the same guy in all those places. I took the picture as a timed progression of his "activities" in Merryland. The woman at the back has her skirts raised a bit on her left, but the level of her skirts on the right is still within the parameters of propriety, especially for the working class. We, as reenactors, tend to wear our skirts far too long because we're deluded into the Victorian idea of "ankles are naughty bits". :)

Hee hee hee hee hee! Good idea, Jim. But I was just thinking about selling time-shares in Foxe!

Is she Merry then? Yeah, I know, guys. I'm just taking the piss. It's amazing how similar he looks to the ladies except that he's ugly. I think they're all watching the midget dance behind the something-seller with the basket in the foreground.

Why's he got on a lady's hat then? (Arguably, a sailor's jacket and kerchief could resemble a woman's when only partially seen. And it is awfully ugly for a woman...)

I think what they're trying to say is that while all pirates are technically smugglers, it's smuggling on a ship or boat that makes a pirate. If they were smuggling across state lines or international land boundaries, they're not pirates.

Hey Jim, don't you still owe me some dosh for the peek up Alli's petticotes?

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Hee! And she's not even one of my girls!

No, Jenny, I just meant that there are GAoP pictures of men fumbling beneath women's skirts. But I don't think this is one of them.

Is it too soon to talk about the Southwest Pirate Festival in May? Because I think it's the only thing that's going to get me through the winter.

Not smarter heads, Captain... Just heads that have seen more and are tortured at night by the thought of GAoP pirates in bucket boots. I know you weren't trying to make it into something it wasn't. You were just presenting it for us all to see. I just couldn't figure out why a guy in a illo from 1724 would be wearing that clothing.

Funny that this should come up now. My friend, Mara Riley was just putting the finishing touches on her Monmouth Cap pattern this weekend. We'll have it for sale on the website shortly along with knitting patterns for mitts, Scots bonnets, and other period stuff. Bob has been wearing the prototype around the house for the past two days.

Ah ha! See Alva? I knew something was fishy... Thanks Foxe! Now I don't think I'm delusional.

Yeah. The guy on the left looks 1624 to me and the guy on the right 1824!

Oh, it's interesting, Alva. I mean, Time Life Books aren't known for their scholarly precision, but they usually don't make typos either. I'm just trying to bend my brain around what in 1724 someone could wear that could make me think "early 19th century" so strongly...

Oh, I believe you, Alva. But I'm wondering if it weren't a typo or something. Because that guy on the right is early Victorian if ever there was...

Not to doubt your source, Captain Alva, but the guy on the right looks like he's from 1824, not 1724, which makes me question the date of your source. Matter of fact, each person in the picture looks like they're from a different time period. It's hurting my head! Those on the bloke on the left, however, are most decidedly over-the-knee boots!

I've had a similar experience. I was wearing a cocked hat with my riding habit when we were doing a Tavern Night at a local historic site. It was pouring rain and the doors to the site were locked because they didn't want the public strolling in early. So I was sheltering under an overhang that wasn't quite as wide as I was. I didn't know it, but the roof was directing buckets of rain right onto my hat... ...and back out the other side. I didn't even know what was happening. My friends were just laughing at me and saying, "Don't move! Don't move!" Unfortunately I turned my head and got a stream of rain down the center of my back. But I dried off soon enough.

If I may share a little, the second and third pictures on this page show our surgeon's tools. He's got quite an impressive array. But he's far too fond of certain treatments involving large syringes...

Funny. That looks like a woman to me. Woman's hat, woman's neckerchief, woman's hairstyle... If you want to see some really NC-17 stuff from the period, Jenny, check out "Sex in Georgian England". Even tamer pictures, like Hogarth's, are quiet racy.

I was thinking hunting gear. I was also thinking of how butchers always wear leather aprons. But I really don't know much if anything about leather goods so I didn't want to speculate.

I just read something about this in "Under the Black Flag"... Give me a minute to dig it out.

I find it interesting that his white servants are enumerated among his possessions. When we do living history at Pennsbury Manor, I try to explain how "free" servants weren't much better off than slaves in this time period, but people never quiet understand that just because you are free doesn't mean you're not owned by someone. (But now I'm totally off topic and am going to have to moderate myself!) I wonder what the fuction of a buckskin waistcoat and breeches was? Sounds decidedly like something with a particular purpose, doesn't it?

And in this one, Foxe. And in this one.