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Tea dresses, characteristically made in vibrant printed fabrics, brought much-needed colour and joy during austere times

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Red dye (critical for creating Cotton Candy Pink) was made from fucking bugs found in Mexican cacti (AND THEN IMPORTED SUPER EASILY AND CHEAPLY TO PLACES LIKE THE FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE) in the 17th century so like, Im having a sorta hard time imagining milkmaids of yore having enough money, time, or honestly life expectancy to be wearing Cotton Candy Pink. I really want to go on and on about how milkmaids have been historically linked to nationalistic purity panics AND historically sexualized and tell you more about pleasure dairies. But legit I might need to actually write a book about this depending on how long I remain in this particular rabbit hole, from whence I emailed a professor friend a link to an article entitled Milkmaids, Ploughmans, and Sex In the 18th Century, and begged him to send it to me

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If you want to dial up the drama, swap the flats for a barely-there heeled sandal and layer on some fine-chain jewellery at the neck and ears