I'm going to tell you a disgusting bala story that will enchant you from the extravagance of old British high society.
As early as more than a thousand years ago, during the Plantagenet dynasty, Henry II declared that fox hunting was a royal sport, and the right to hunt belonged to the king.
As a result, hunters often wore the king's uniform, usually scarlet, known as "Hunting Pink".
After years of rheology, pink suits are now generally red long coats with white trousers and unstringed boots.
The trouble was on this red coat.
First of all, it cannot be new;
Because it requires a "sense of old age with the right benefits", it is equivalent to the half-old satin jacket worn by Sister Bao, which can prove that it is a Chen person for three or four lifetimes, and has been hunting foxes for generations.
In the 1890 book "Etiquette and Rules of High Society", it was written that the emerging nobles should wear black and blue coats more gracefully than wearing a new pink to participate in hunting and laughing.
Secondly, it cannot be washed;
Hunting is dirty, and splashing mud is common.
Then you need to scrub the local mud stains with soft water.
But not scrubbing the whole thing, because it will go out of shape.
This heirloom coat is very expensive.
(This is understandable, and it is said that the emperor's dragon robe was never washed.) ）
Third, scarlet is very easy to fade, old, appear dark eyebrows and rough eyes.
Therefore, it is necessary to recolor the cloth with a special dye before the annual fox hunting season.
Until the end of World War II, this was usually done by the nobles' own high-ranking servants. It is often close to the waiter.
The master gave this piece to the close attendant, which meant trust, because once the clothes failed to dye, they lost the faces of the duke and the count.
Fourth, because not every piece of cloth is faded, if it is fully dyed, it is easy to vary shades. Spot dyeing is also easy to form uneven patches with the primary color next to it.
What about the attendants?
Find a maid to use the night pot that was used last night, use the "ammonia water" in the urine to do the whole clothes fading treatment, and then dye, which can ensure that the dyeing is uniform.
Alas, imagine: a piece of clothing that has not been washed for hundreds of years, worn by countless people, with an unknown number of sweat stains under the armpits, and soaked in the urine (or brushed with a brush)...
Now you have to wear it on to go hunting!
