Things I'm Wondering About

[ithildin]

Random things I'm wondering about today as my brain leaps from one fic to another.

Would the stays in a corset deflect a knife so that instead of it stabbing where it was intended, it would go in at a different angle, potentially causing a less serious wound?

What was the most popular serious/hardcore recreational drug during the Roaring Twenties? Was opium still being used heavily?

What about the teeth of Immortals anyway? Would they never wear down? Would they grow back if knocked out, or are lots of Immies wearing dentures?

Early nineteenth pistols. Need to know more. Must look through collected websites soonish.

Just what did happen when Charlotte went to Bali with Tony? Will they ever tell me? Do I really want to know?

If Ezra Standish had to choose another name for a new persona, what would it be?

Later: Wow! I wasn't expecting so much random pondering help [g] And some of these aren't even for any specific purpose, just idle curiosity. Like the immie teeth one. Why am I wondering about it? Not a klew! I just am.

Comments

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

That would a nifty scene. Will have to keep it in mind if I ever write anything in that time period. I'm afraid this is 1817 though. But thanks to all of you, I feel much more confident about my initial idea!

[mzlizzy.livejournal.com]

1817 is late Regency/Empire (depending on whether you're counting in England or France) and the corsets of the period don't have a lot of bones, mostly they are stiffened with cording. There does tend to be a couple of pieces of whalebone where the lacing is at the center back, but not much more than that. The main stiffener is a massive busk at front that was made of wood, whalebone or ivory sometimes carved with decorations. The piece was an inch or more wide and was part of the reason that the Regency corset was nicknamed the 'divorce' corset -- because it divorced the breasts from each other.
For a good resource on Corsets from different periods check out http://laracorsets.com