All the Frills: Intro Edition

Welcome to a new, and I hope regular, feature on Sartorial Sidelines – All the Frills Fridays!

I’m endeavoring to use my Friday posts as a place to feature a different accessory, knick knack, what have you, alongside a little link roundup to get the weekend started. For the inaugural edition, I give you….drum roll…this Lancastrian rose locket that is one of my most prized possessions. I picked up this necklace on my first trip to the UK, when, in a fit of post-high school, pre-university independence, I backpacked across Europe solo and ended my trip with a month in England.

The red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York were later combined to make the Tudor rose, which was selected by the Lancastrian Henry Tudor as the badge of his house after his defeat of the Yorkist Richard III in 1485. This defeat, at the Battle of Bosworth, ended the so-called War of the Roses (sort of – I’m of the opinion that the War of the Roses actually carried on for several more years as various Yorkist claimants threatened Henry’s hold on the crown). Henry Tudor, now Henry VII and first of the Tudor dynasty, married Richard’s niece Elizabeth of York, thus uniting the two rival houses and combined the two rose emblems into one.

As a historian of the Tudor and Stuart periods I treasure this locket, in which I have pasted images of Anne Boleyn and Katherine Parr (my two favorite wives of Henry VIII).

And because I’ve devoted this inaugural post to English history, I’m going to mostly keep that theme rolling in the links round up:

Pornography, Georgian style. Plenty of ye olde sauciness.

I’m soooo excited to see The Monuments Men. Here's a bit on the often overlooked Monuments Women.

Lady Edith is getting some ‘20s style!

Any cinema costume fans out there? This fascinating Tumblr is for you!

Hot on the discovery of Richard III under that car park, they may have located Alfred the Great’s remains.

Aside from environmental degradation, there are a few other sinister things that come along with oil field expansion.

The owner of one of my favourite Edmonton hangouts, The Empress, has opened a new venture. The best part is that it’s 7 blocks away from my front door. Hello new home-away-from-home!

So apparently hotel rooms in Sochi are not good.