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english-history-trip:

tilthat:

TIL King Edward VII was too fat to fully button his suit jacket. In order to not offend the king, everyone else followed suit. A trend was born…

via reddit.com

This happens all the darned time. His wife, Queen Alexandra, had a scar on her neck, so she wore choker necklaces and high-necked blouses… and so did everyone else.

Louis XIII and Louis XIV started wearing wigs because they were going bald… and so did everyone else. 

Basically all of fashion history is that scene in Princess Diaries where Mia gets brain freeze so everyone tries to get brain freeze.

Louis XIV also had a terrible anal fistula in 1686 and his surgeon designed a special instrument for surgically removing it without Louis dying, so then anal fistulas became all the rage at the French court and 1686 was called “the year of the fistula” and I wish this was fake