Jesus Lord God. I imagine that training for the Kalmar leaves you pretty sore, eh? Nevertheless, I am DISGUSTINGLY ENVIOUS. :/
And. By the way. I love you. OMG. A wrapped queue just seemsmore Bush-like and and and. <3 <3 <3 I'm glad that it's something I can take to be part of his canon personality.
If you don't mind, there are some other things that I've been trying to figure out (unsuccessfully) about the finer points of RN men's toiletry:
1. Does this thing about queues mean that in Bush's seachest, he's got a little packet of black ribands? Because, really, the notion of him shopping for bits of ribbon makes me giggle like the twentieth-century plebe fangirl that I am.
1a. Colors besides black? Do people vary? Do we get festive gift-wrapping around the holidays? XD
1b. What about the French? My history-book pictures of Napoleon as Emperor tend not to show him with, so I'm imagining that it wasn't v. fashionable w/Frogs around the time of, say, Flying Colours.
2. Am I correct in inferring from the woodcut that it's something that friends, particularly friends who live together, can casually do for each other without any sort of weirdness? So for, uh, total example and not because I've been obsessing about it for days now, Gerard could do for Bush while they're on the Sutherland or the Lydia without any fidgeting or worries about discipline?
3. Am I right to think that the major problems with trying to do your own queue are:
a. Getting the plait to start properly close to the base of your skull. b. Getting the plait tight enough to hold for extended periods of time. c. Wrapping evenly and tightly. It's going to be virtually impossible to reach over your shoulders to achieve even spacing between the layers and, also, to keep the crossing straight.
4. And to get into the really gruesome detalis: how are the ends of the wrapping riband held against the hair? Tucked in? knot? Any specific kind of knot?
5. If the queues start to disappear in the Navy around 1812, would it be reasonable for Horatio, when a captain, to have the little limp ponytail in the movies? Or would he go with the "short style" that I've been reading a little about? I mean, we know that he's not all that particular about his details of dress outside of having it be properly expensive and that he really tries to get dressed like OMFG fastwhoa. It seems to me like he'd jump on the chance to eliminate that from his routine even if it was fairly infrequent, but. Is that reasonable?
6. In one of the books, they mention that officers get a pint of water twice a week for shaving. This is not a whole hell of a lot of water, and I imagine that it'd either be reduced or wiped out entirely in times of scarcity. Am I right to think, then, that there was a lot of stubbly?
*pelts you with questions until you cry and regret ever commenting back*
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there totally isn't Bush!clothes fic in the offing. there is NOT.
Date: 2006-01-22 04:38 am (UTC)And. By the way. I love you. OMG. A wrapped queue just seemsmore Bush-like and and and. <3 <3 <3 I'm glad that it's something I can take to be part of his canon personality.
If you don't mind, there are some other things that I've been trying to figure out (unsuccessfully) about the finer points of RN men's toiletry:
1. Does this thing about queues mean that in Bush's seachest, he's got a little packet of black ribands? Because, really, the notion of him shopping for bits of ribbon makes me giggle like the twentieth-century plebe fangirl that I am.
1a. Colors besides black? Do people vary? Do we get festive gift-wrapping around the holidays? XD
1b. What about the French? My history-book pictures of Napoleon as Emperor tend not to show him with, so I'm imagining that it wasn't v. fashionable w/Frogs around the time of, say, Flying Colours.
2. Am I correct in inferring from the woodcut that it's something that friends, particularly friends who live together, can casually do for each other without any sort of weirdness? So for, uh, total example and not because I've been obsessing about it for days now, Gerard could do for Bush while they're on the Sutherland or the Lydia without any fidgeting or worries about discipline?
3. Am I right to think that the major problems with trying to do your own queue are:
a. Getting the plait to start properly close to the base of your skull.
b. Getting the plait tight enough to hold for extended periods of time.
c. Wrapping evenly and tightly. It's going to be virtually impossible to reach over your shoulders to achieve even spacing between the layers and, also, to keep the crossing straight.
4. And to get into the really gruesome detalis: how are the ends of the wrapping riband held against the hair? Tucked in? knot? Any specific kind of knot?
5. If the queues start to disappear in the Navy around 1812, would it be reasonable for Horatio, when a captain, to have the little limp ponytail in the movies? Or would he go with the "short style" that I've been reading a little about? I mean, we know that he's not all that particular about his details of dress outside of having it be properly expensive and that he really tries to get dressed like OMFG fastwhoa. It seems to me like he'd jump on the chance to eliminate that from his routine even if it was fairly infrequent, but. Is that reasonable?
6. In one of the books, they mention that officers get a pint of water twice a week for shaving. This is not a whole hell of a lot of water, and I imagine that it'd either be reduced or wiped out entirely in times of scarcity. Am I right to think, then, that there was a lot of stubbly?
*pelts you with questions until you cry and regret ever commenting back*