In this second series of bar pictures, I've tried to make sure that all of
them connect together into one long timeline a bit better than I did in the first
series. When I was recently going through my collection of them, I noticed that
the one which connected onto the 1655-80 picture was from the first series, which
connected onto other ones from the first series. Oops. (I have NO idea
how I messed up like that).
I had to do one that bridged the gap between that one and the 1690-1710 one,
so the fashions had to be dated mostly from the 1680's.
The further back in time you go, the longer it takes for fashions to
change over time. It's also much harder to find examples to work from that are
in a narrow time frame, so to fill in this relatively narrow gap in time, I had
to include some costumes dated from the 1670's and some from the 1690's (the
former located mostly on the left side of the page, the latter on the right).
They're generally all the same anyway, so it's all pretty much historically
accurate. I also love drawing costumes from the baroque period, they're so
ornate and detailed, especially men's.
Most of the fashions in this picture are English, however I included some
fashions from Dutch paintings in the left foreground. They changed very little
over the previous decades and were still about the same well into the 1690's.
One interesting change in costumes at this time is mens' hats. Most of them were
the flat, wide-brimmed, black hats worn mostly by the Dutch. Around the 80's,
they started to turn up one side a little, then two and three sides, then by the
end of the 90's most men were wearing the tri-cornered hats.
That's me in the right foreground and as with previous pictures, the placement
of the sword is very intentional.
The bowl by the bird says "Pyne nuttes". I figured they wouldn't have
peanuts at that time but might have pine nuts, and I also figured they'd spell
it in some old English way like that.
The guys eating the chicken wings in the right foreground are based on a
photograph a friend gave me. That's a cup of blue cheese dressing and celery
sticks in front of them. To the left of them is a drunk guy admiring the women.
Above him is his sister admiring a guy.
