Monopoly started as "The Landlord's Game" made by Elizabeth Magie and showed the evils of capitalism. Then Hasbro stole it from her and swapped the message. So even Monopoly used to teach values.
the modern!Monopoly style of play was originally just one of (three?) ways one could play said game BUT HASBRO USED THAT ONE VARIATION TO EXCUSE STEALING THE ENTIRE CONCEPT, IN A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF REAL LIFE MONOPOLY BACKSTABBING.
@@BattyButtercup And if I recall correctly, one of those ways to play was that *everybody* wion if the person who started out with the least amount of money doubled what they had by the end of the game, so it's a cooperative group effort to support the least advantaged. That's the version I want to learn...
As a costume historian it is nice seeing people experiencing the joy I find in costume, it also highlights the difference in the way that we are around clothing because throughout history (up untill the Edwardian era) a woman showing her ankles was seen as so scandalous because apparently men were turned on by ankles but in today's society its almost weird not too. I also want that woman's job so badly.
was the ankles thing not only due to Default Clothing Length being ankle-length but because EVERYONE wore hose? due to the Billow-iness of clothing making it necessary for warmth but also because shoes were expensive to make & thus uncomfortable (as shoes would be passed on, regardless of fit, so long as they could be worn) so hose as "cushion" was ESSENTIAL. so, for purely practical reasons, ankles weren't witnessed except when bathing, dressing, or resting. the popularizing of The Suit (aka doublet & pantaloons rather than robes) was, in part, scandalous because THE SHAPE OF THE CALVES WERE LAID BARE SAVE FOR HOSE, ONLY HELD ALOFT BY GARTER BELTS! VISIBLE garter belts! so. the "sexy ankle" was a Context thing (intimacy/relaxedness/poverty meaning not enough fabric/etc) rather than an "ankle kink" thing. .../history-nerd shuffles off
@@BattyButtercup as far as I am aware (certainly in Britain ) it was only ever women's ankles that were sexualised, men have been showing theirs for centuries. I cannot talk for anywhere else but in pre tudor Britain (up to the 16th century) shoes were not in fact uncomfortable because they were nothing more than a piece of leather tied around your foot which felt like you were walking barefoot which everyone would have been used too so hoes and such leg garments were not for comfort but warmth. Most men's hoes up to the tudors also included feet for the purpose of warmth. Hoes and stockings also got thinner over the centuries eventually giving no comfort to the wearer. On the point of the billow-innes of the clothes the dress Jessica is waring does not entirely give justice to the number of layers a woman would have actually been wearing. She is wearing what looks to be a robe a la francaise it is a simplified and slimmed down version because it came at a turning point in the silhouette of clothes however she would still have been waring at least a shift, stays (not a corset because they are two very different garments with the corset not being designed for another 200 years or so), a bum pad, at least 3 petticoats, a skirt, and the dress itself. So she would not have been cold or billow. I have found that the weight of these garment is what makes then so nice to wear (even if just standing makes you tired)
@@sophiewaller5699 oh! sorry for my vagueness - i was referring, mostly, to The Everyday Person or Townsfolk (gender also left vague) of Britain from 10th century until the Victorian era! i'm deliberately vague on gender-restrictions in wardrobe but hemlines, to my knowledge, were ankle length by default though men generally had hemlines at their knees. With that narrowed down, common folk generally wore: a shift, hose, a dress or tunic, shoes (leather or wood, i think?), and an apron. Those who could afford additional layers (petticoats, over-dresses, robes, coats, etc) wore those also & a blanket could be donned as a cloak for warmth. Pairs of bodies started with... Elizabeth I, i think? so 16th century-ish "women" (wealthy children would wear them also, i think) were wearing pairs-of-bodies but it wasn't until... i'm-not-actually-sure but i want to guess 17th century? that Stays became de facto underwear for "women" (and, i guess, wealthy female children). clothing was, unless you were REALLY wealthy, made of: wool, linen, cotton, furs, and/or leather. ankle hemlines generally mean there is not a lot of "billowing" allowance but hoisting your skirts up while working would be necessary. i'm going to guess that farmers were less scandalised by ankles due to how much movement was involved in their work. domestic workers would be SCANDALISED but also more able to afford petticoats and outer dresses and coats (thus their outfits having enough layers and weight to stay "put" - maids, obvs, also had All Of The Pins just literally stuck on their clothing so as to pin their employers' outer dresses/robes the-french-style-i-never-spell-correctly to corset covers). ...did i get it right. my History Nerd assumption is that the closer you were to wealthy people, working for them or living near them (so merchants, clergy/nuns, dressmakers, domestic staff, bankers, and such like), the more prone to being Scandalised you were? OH! RELIGIOUS-NESS ALSO APPLIES. !!! RELIGION! i forgot about headwear! women wore head coverings for AAAAAAGES so that was ANOTHER layer of clothing! veils got shorter as religious practices relaxed and then hats and buns replaced head-shawl-thingies though echoes of the full-on-hair-veils continued on in kerchiefs? vikings settled peaceably in [modern Scotland] and weren't ENTIRELY influenced in fashion by christianity (though most of Britain considered itself christian by this point & Vikings were happily raiding SOUTHERN Britain throughout this era) so my consideration of "common" clothing takes them into consideration when thinking of fashions from x-xv because records on them can probably be used as guesses on how rural-dwelling Britons dressed given the other existing records are largely church-based & thus probably how people TRIED to dress rather than what they ACTUALLY wore day-to-day. /history nerd excitedly awaits Actual Costume Historian(!!!) comments on my Best Guesses RE: scandalous ankles
I love a good (costume) history nerd chat 😁. It is a good thought on the ankle thing, but were the ankles considered appealing even when seen in hose? I always assumed they didn't have to be bare to be 'visible'. I am specifically references the period of the actual dress, so Georgian.
@@felicitygee381 Have you ever heard the expression 'a well turned ankle'? It refers to the shape of the ankle so even if a woman was wearing hoes if you could see the shape of an ankle men were apparently still turned on by it.
Jessica + Christmas + History = 😍 Claudia + Monopoly = 😡 This entire video, from the aesthetics to the fashion to the locale was breathtakingly beautiful. Thank you for the gift of historical knowledge. I enjoyed it very much. Jessica and Claudia, you always brighten my day. Thank you again. Take care!! 👍🤟💝🎄
FYI, if Claudia sticks to cheese that has been aged at least 2 years, she should be fine. Over time the lactose gets broken down by bacteria. My dad was severely lactose intolerant and he was able to have aged cheese. Not to mention ones made from goat's or sheep's milk. Goat's milk has significantly less lactose than cow's milk. I can't remember what makes sheep's milk better for those with lactose intolerance, I'm sure Google knows.
I think sheep's milk just naturally has less lactose than cow's milk. I did look this up when I thought that I was lactose intolerant, so I've made a lot of research
Hi! So glad you uploaded. It’s my first piano recital today and I need something to distract myself before I break down from stress. Thank you so much!
Amelia did fantastic! I was interested the whole way through and she seemed genuinely passionate about the information. Plus she did great on camera, sometimes when you tubers interview, the interviewee doesn’t know how to talk to a camera. Queen of Christmas you sleighed it!
Gorgeous everything! Note: the pepper cakes they used to eat with cheese are actually gingerbread biscuits, their name in German and Scandinavian sounds like "peppercake" but it's not quite, and this tradition still survives in Sweden and other places! Stinky cheese spread on gingerbread cookies. 👍🥂🥳
The lovely docents interrupting was the most real reminder of my time working in museums I've ever seen. Loved my docents, but they ALWAYS were coming in like that! Also, I do know what she does and I AM jealous! Everything looked marvelous, what a wonderful tour and video!
Fun fact: Monopoly is actually based on an earlier game called The Landlord's Game, which was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in the early 1900s. Though it's been stripped of its meaning in the form we know today, it was originally designed as an anti-capitalist educational tool.
I don't know if this is just my perception, but the Queen of Christmas was so informative but also I felt she was really understanding of your lip reading Jessica and avoided talking when you weren't looking? Which seems really polite, more so than most people? Was that just a perception or was that the case? :)
This coming year I am determined to learn to sew and I am going to start history bounding, and making my own clothes because finding things for before the 1950s can be difficult and though I love dressing 50s I do love other periods too. I love learning through your channel and I really enjoyed this chat with the woman with the best job in the world xx
I loved the history lesson. Learning about Christmas celebrations of a long ago era, helps me understand the reasoning behind them. I loved your playing dress up. My favorite was the peach multi layered gown. Another Vlogmas that was worth the wait. 🎄🎄🎄🎅🎅🎅❄❄❄🎁🎁🎁 Tricia B
This is a beautiful video! I love the location, the decoration, and the beautiful dress that Jessica got to wear! It really suited her in a way that seems Millie took quite a bit of care in selecting it. I also appreciated the history lesson, I learned a lot about the history of Georgian Christmas. Thank you! Also, I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks that Tinsel is the devil! Tinsel and plastic Easter Grass are both terrible for the environment and there's a risk that wildlife will eat them, so I abstain from using either to decorate
I'm American, I knew very little of the origin of Christmas trees in Europe and I find it amazing that a man named Albert was part of the reason Christmas trees went nuts, because this year I bought a very small living tree to decorate and I named him Albert. So that makes me very happy
Thank you Jessica for a wonderful video. I love your vintage coat, and lovely gown you gown you got. My extended family would gather at Christmases when we weren't scattered as now. We still kept the tradition of handmade gifts. My family had many artisans and talented cooks/bakers. It was so fun making our own gifts for each other & foregoing the shops except for the kids' books, and gift certificates to the yarn store. Happy Christmas to you and Claudia.
If one day I get to date a taller girl, I hope she quite literally leans on my shoulder the way Jessie does with Claudia. You do it so often in videos (and probably irl too), its heartwarming.
I got this amazing board/card game to try this year. It’s called High Society and you have to try and become the most fancy and lauded member of the upper crust and avoid scandal. Points for being avant garde etc. To be honest I mainly got it because the artwork is TO DIE FOR. It’s all art nouveau because that’s the time period it’s set in.
old-timey christmas reminded me of how i went to the Dickens Faire in San Francisco a few weeks ago for the first time! It's like a Renaissance Faire but Victorian London Christmas instead. They had actors dressed as characters and people like the ghosts of christmas past present and future, the white rabbit (not sure why but ok), and The Queen with her giant entourage of guards. I walked by one of the stages where the queen was finishing up some kind of show or photo op or something, and i heard her say "happy christmas" like how the actual current queen says it. I thought that was funny because the queen was doing the queen's accent, but it's obviously a completely different queen. but none of the friends i was with even knew the queen has a different accent to begin with, so they definitely didn't notice this actor imitating it, and didn't understand why i thought it was amusing :( but i think the only reason i can recognize the queen's accent is because of this channel so i felt compelled to tell the story here lol
I just had my Christmas Eve cheese cutting ceremony! We played carols and sat down to a table decorated in greenery, oranges and spices wrapped in ribbons! It was a great idea and we loved it. Thanks Queen of Christmas and Jessica& Claudia
WOW, Jessica you look so pretty & festive !! I wonder if people stopped you, thinking you were part of the official holiday celebration !! The coat was spectacular ! Maybe we should start wearing those again ! Claudia was her usual cute self and dressed for the weather. What a lovely time ya'll had, and thanks for showing us this event !! YAY
That was fabulous! I love the tour, and that you got to take us with you. I would live to see more tours of National Trust houses, if you can get permission to film there- and your health allowing, of course. I can't believe it's nearly Christmas! Your vlogmas has helped me count down the days and have made each one a bit brighter this season.
Absolutely loved all the information we learned. Can't imagine the person having the job of putting boots on turkeys. You looked amazing in that gown. Thanks for sharing this place, especially for those of us that probably won't be getting to see it in person.
Lol I was laughing so hard at Claudia BC she didn't get cook til enough... And then laughing she was like what's funny..so cute...and loved the cmas tour...
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this video. It's definitely one of your best!!! Merry Christmas, and sending love over the miles from California. You are teaching me so much about how to love life, in the face of seemingly impossible obstacles (my father's disabilities and my caregiving). ❄️🎶🎄🎅🏻🎄🎶❄️ Joy to the World, and to all of you ⛄️💚🌟
No interest in Christmas, still captivated by the history. You look as lovely as you do every day! (and I totally saw that Coke bottle on the tree - adorable)
Food Historian here- by the Georgian period there was more fruit and sugar than meat in a mince pie, especially at the wealth of this household. Pepper cakes are candies made from boiling whole peppercorns in water, or wine, straining them, then mix the liquid with sugar to make small balls, patties or ‘cakes’.
Love your videos about the National Trust! I live near Attingham Park, it's a beautiful place to walk the dogs and the house is amazing! I love your vlogmas so much, Merry Christmas!!
What fun! This I find very informative. I also hate tinsel because the real heavy kind from the 40s can't be found anymore, and I prefer beaded garlands anyway. What really would be awesome would be LED candle shaped lights to clip on.
Thank you soooo much for this vlogmas. It literally makes my day getting up and seeing you uploaded! 💖 I hope you and your family have an amazing christmas!
10/10 would recommend 👌 excellent video to cheer me up in bed with the flu 😒 love all of your videos, I really want to go to a national trust house now lol
OH TOO FUNNY!!! I'm in the United States, watching you're opening scene driving, my brain automatically said OH NO!!! YOU'RE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD!!! haha! I had to share that lol 😅😁 What a lovely and informative video! You looked so beautiful in that dress (you look good in all of them!!) Have you ever has Claudia try on any of your dresses? Just curious! Do her hair/makeup? You're both so heartwarming to watch, I love you both and merry Christmas! 🥰
My family and my partner's family are 100% opposite in terms of opinion of tinsel! Who knew it was such a divisive issue! The other one is coloured fairy lights vs white ones...
my family always has a very traditionally northern german christmas tree with sweets, gingerbread, stars and garlands made from straw and little wooden churches and angels and of course real candles. so even baubles and fairy lights seem incredibly tacky to me.
I love late 18th century so much! I'm guessing that Jessica wasn't wearing a pair of stays due to her scoliosis but other than that it was a fairly accurate ensemble. Although, the skirt length suggests she's still a child 😂 Merry Christmas! Always fun looking back at old traditions and comparing them to now.
Part of me wants to do museum studies at post grad for the costume opportunities... (And if you really love costumes, milestones in Basingstoke has a mega tent to wear around the museum...)
A lot of this sounds very Swedish to me (of course both Britain and Germany have strong historical ties with Sweden, so it makes sense). Pepparkaka (lit. pepper cake) is what we call gingerbread in Sweden. It's still common here to have it with cheese (blue cheese is very popular) and Julost (Christmas cheese) is a very long tradition. Nowadays, the Julost you see in shops here is usually a high fat, quite mild and creamy hard cheese. But either way, cheese is a pretty important part of the Swedish Christmas smörgåsbord (or as we call it: Julbord). But not as important as the pickled herring, meatballs and Christmas ham! ;P
Claudia staring blankly into space as she realizes that board games are all about money and capitalism 😂
You (or/and Claudia) have been playing the wrong boardgames entirely if that's the takeaway ☺️
Thank you so much for watching! What did you think of my gorgeous new dress...? ;)
It is so pretty and is just beautiful. It is so elegant
super student yeh I love it
I love the details and colours of the dress. I feel like the dress is so you Jessica
Gorgeous! The green with your hair ( color and style ) ... what a picture of beauty ❤💚
Kelly Opie Hope you have a good Christmas
Monopoly started as "The Landlord's Game" made by Elizabeth Magie and showed the evils of capitalism. Then Hasbro stole it from her and swapped the message. So even Monopoly used to teach values.
the modern!Monopoly style of play was originally just one of (three?) ways one could play said game BUT HASBRO USED THAT ONE VARIATION TO EXCUSE STEALING THE ENTIRE CONCEPT, IN A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF REAL LIFE MONOPOLY BACKSTABBING.
Exactly the comment I was about to leave 😁👏
Also, Elizabeth Magie was a Quaker!
@@BattyButtercup And if I recall correctly, one of those ways to play was that *everybody* wion if the person who started out with the least amount of money doubled what they had by the end of the game, so it's a cooperative group effort to support the least advantaged. That's the version I want to learn...
As a costume historian it is nice seeing people experiencing the joy I find in costume, it also highlights the difference in the way that we are around clothing because throughout history (up untill the Edwardian era) a woman showing her ankles was seen as so scandalous because apparently men were turned on by ankles but in today's society its almost weird not too.
I also want that woman's job so badly.
was the ankles thing not only due to Default Clothing Length being ankle-length but because EVERYONE wore hose? due to the Billow-iness of clothing making it necessary for warmth but also because shoes were expensive to make & thus uncomfortable (as shoes would be passed on, regardless of fit, so long as they could be worn) so hose as "cushion" was ESSENTIAL.
so, for purely practical reasons, ankles weren't witnessed except when bathing, dressing, or resting. the popularizing of The Suit (aka doublet & pantaloons rather than robes) was, in part, scandalous because THE SHAPE OF THE CALVES WERE LAID BARE SAVE FOR HOSE, ONLY HELD ALOFT BY GARTER BELTS! VISIBLE garter belts!
so. the "sexy ankle" was a Context thing (intimacy/relaxedness/poverty meaning not enough fabric/etc) rather than an "ankle kink" thing.
.../history-nerd shuffles off
@@BattyButtercup as far as I am aware (certainly in Britain ) it was only ever women's ankles that were sexualised, men have been showing theirs for centuries. I cannot talk for anywhere else but in pre tudor Britain (up to the 16th century) shoes were not in fact uncomfortable because they were nothing more than a piece of leather tied around your foot which felt like you were walking barefoot which everyone would have been used too so hoes and such leg garments were not for comfort but warmth. Most men's hoes up to the tudors also included feet for the purpose of warmth. Hoes and stockings also got thinner over the centuries eventually giving no comfort to the wearer.
On the point of the billow-innes of the clothes the dress Jessica is waring does not entirely give justice to the number of layers a woman would have actually been wearing. She is wearing what looks to be a robe a la francaise it is a simplified and slimmed down version because it came at a turning point in the silhouette of clothes however she would still have been waring at least a shift, stays (not a corset because they are two very different garments with the corset not being designed for another 200 years or so), a bum pad, at least 3 petticoats, a skirt, and the dress itself. So she would not have been cold or billow. I have found that the weight of these garment is what makes then so nice to wear (even if just standing makes you tired)
@@sophiewaller5699 oh! sorry for my vagueness - i was referring, mostly, to The Everyday Person or Townsfolk (gender also left vague) of Britain from 10th century until the Victorian era! i'm deliberately vague on gender-restrictions in wardrobe but hemlines, to my knowledge, were ankle length by default though men generally had hemlines at their knees.
With that narrowed down, common folk generally wore: a shift, hose, a dress or tunic, shoes (leather or wood, i think?), and an apron. Those who could afford additional layers (petticoats, over-dresses, robes, coats, etc) wore those also & a blanket could be donned as a cloak for warmth.
Pairs of bodies started with... Elizabeth I, i think? so 16th century-ish "women" (wealthy children would wear them also, i think) were wearing pairs-of-bodies but it wasn't until... i'm-not-actually-sure but i want to guess 17th century? that Stays became de facto underwear for "women" (and, i guess, wealthy female children).
clothing was, unless you were REALLY wealthy, made of: wool, linen, cotton, furs, and/or leather. ankle hemlines generally mean there is not a lot of "billowing" allowance but hoisting your skirts up while working would be necessary. i'm going to guess that farmers were less scandalised by ankles due to how much movement was involved in their work.
domestic workers would be SCANDALISED but also more able to afford petticoats and outer dresses and coats (thus their outfits having enough layers and weight to stay "put" - maids, obvs, also had All Of The Pins just literally stuck on their clothing so as to pin their employers' outer dresses/robes the-french-style-i-never-spell-correctly to corset covers).
...did i get it right. my History Nerd assumption is that the closer you were to wealthy people, working for them or living near them (so merchants, clergy/nuns, dressmakers, domestic staff, bankers, and such like), the more prone to being Scandalised you were? OH! RELIGIOUS-NESS ALSO APPLIES.
!!! RELIGION! i forgot about headwear! women wore head coverings for AAAAAAGES so that was ANOTHER layer of clothing! veils got shorter as religious practices relaxed and then hats and buns replaced head-shawl-thingies though echoes of the full-on-hair-veils continued on in kerchiefs?
vikings settled peaceably in [modern Scotland] and weren't ENTIRELY influenced in fashion by christianity (though most of Britain considered itself christian by this point & Vikings were happily raiding SOUTHERN Britain throughout this era) so my consideration of "common" clothing takes them into consideration when thinking of fashions from x-xv because records on them can probably be used as guesses on how rural-dwelling Britons dressed given the other existing records are largely church-based & thus probably how people TRIED to dress rather than what they ACTUALLY wore day-to-day.
/history nerd excitedly awaits Actual Costume Historian(!!!) comments on my Best Guesses RE: scandalous ankles
I love a good (costume) history nerd chat 😁. It is a good thought on the ankle thing, but were the ankles considered appealing even when seen in hose? I always assumed they didn't have to be bare to be 'visible'.
I am specifically references the period of the actual dress, so Georgian.
@@felicitygee381 Have you ever heard the expression 'a well turned ankle'? It refers to the shape of the ankle so even if a woman was wearing hoes if you could see the shape of an ankle men were apparently still turned on by it.
Jessica + Christmas + History = 😍
Claudia + Monopoly = 😡
This entire video, from the aesthetics to the fashion to the locale was breathtakingly beautiful. Thank you for the gift of historical knowledge. I enjoyed it very much.
Jessica and Claudia, you always brighten my day. Thank you again. Take care!!
👍🤟💝🎄
also Jess and the Queen of Christmas geeking out over the costumes was the most adorable scene
FYI, if Claudia sticks to cheese that has been aged at least 2 years, she should be fine. Over time the lactose gets broken down by bacteria. My dad was severely lactose intolerant and he was able to have aged cheese. Not to mention ones made from goat's or sheep's milk. Goat's milk has significantly less lactose than cow's milk. I can't remember what makes sheep's milk better for those with lactose intolerance, I'm sure Google knows.
I think sheep's milk just naturally has less lactose than cow's milk.
I did look this up when I thought that I was lactose intolerant, so I've made a lot of research
Hi! So glad you uploaded. It’s my first piano recital today and I need something to distract myself before I break down from stress. Thank you so much!
Good luck with your piano recital! xxx
Thank you all for the good luck wishes! I’ll try to keep a smile on my face
Amelia did fantastic! I was interested the whole way through and she seemed genuinely passionate about the information. Plus she did great on camera, sometimes when you tubers interview, the interviewee doesn’t know how to talk to a camera.
Queen of Christmas you sleighed it!
Lol love the pun!
So, I've had to go dairy and gluten-free. Claudia saying, "Yeah, but it's Christmas." Is me when I eat ALL THE THINGS that makes my tummy hurt. 🤣
Gorgeous everything! Note: the pepper cakes they used to eat with cheese are actually gingerbread biscuits, their name in German and Scandinavian sounds like "peppercake" but it's not quite, and this tradition still survives in Sweden and other places! Stinky cheese spread on gingerbread cookies. 👍🥂🥳
The Queen of Christmas is an absolutely lovely person!! This was a wonderful vlogmas episode! 🎄
The Queen of Christmas is very knowledgeable and charming. Great video ❤
The lovely docents interrupting was the most real reminder of my time working in museums I've ever seen. Loved my docents, but they ALWAYS were coming in like that! Also, I do know what she does and I AM jealous! Everything looked marvelous, what a wonderful tour and video!
Fun fact: Monopoly is actually based on an earlier game called The Landlord's Game, which was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in the early 1900s. Though it's been stripped of its meaning in the form we know today, it was originally designed as an anti-capitalist educational tool.
Yes! Fellow tinsel haters! I'm not alone.
Edit: Also, you are the most photogenic person ever, Jessica. Those outfits are gorgeous.
I don't know if this is just my perception, but the Queen of Christmas was so informative but also I felt she was really understanding of your lip reading Jessica and avoided talking when you weren't looking? Which seems really polite, more so than most people? Was that just a perception or was that the case? :)
I saw that too! She was talking and stoped when Jess looked at her wife! Which was so nice to see
This coming year I am determined to learn to sew and I am going to start history bounding, and making my own clothes because finding things for before the 1950s can be difficult and though I love dressing 50s I do love other periods too. I love learning through your channel and I really enjoyed this chat with the woman with the best job in the world xx
Do you follow Morgan Donner?
Stephanie Hight on here? No I’ll have a look though thank you
@Beverly Butterfly it’s November 2022. Did you learn to sew?
I loved the history lesson. Learning about Christmas celebrations of a long ago era, helps me understand the reasoning behind them. I loved your playing dress up. My favorite was the peach multi layered gown. Another Vlogmas that was worth the wait. 🎄🎄🎄🎅🎅🎅❄❄❄🎁🎁🎁
Tricia B
I may have to begin a tradition of Christmas cheese now!
i might start celebrating christmas just so i can do christmas cheese!
This is a beautiful video! I love the location, the decoration, and the beautiful dress that Jessica got to wear! It really suited her in a way that seems Millie took quite a bit of care in selecting it. I also appreciated the history lesson, I learned a lot about the history of Georgian Christmas. Thank you!
Also, I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks that Tinsel is the devil! Tinsel and plastic Easter Grass are both terrible for the environment and there's a risk that wildlife will eat them, so I abstain from using either to decorate
I'm American, I knew very little of the origin of Christmas trees in Europe and I find it amazing that a man named Albert was part of the reason Christmas trees went nuts, because this year I bought a very small living tree to decorate and I named him Albert. So that makes me very happy
Thank you Jessica for a wonderful video. I love your vintage coat, and lovely gown you gown you got. My extended family would gather at Christmases when we weren't scattered as now. We still kept the tradition of handmade gifts. My family had many artisans and talented cooks/bakers. It was so fun making our own gifts for each other & foregoing the shops except for the kids' books, and gift certificates to the yarn store. Happy Christmas to you and Claudia.
If one day I get to date a taller girl, I hope she quite literally leans on my shoulder the way Jessie does with Claudia. You do it so often in videos (and probably irl too), its heartwarming.
My favorite picture of my wife and I (She's about a foot taller) has me leaning just like that.
Iv been avoiding doing that to my gf assuming she wouldn't like it but will have to try it to see the reaction xD
I got this amazing board/card game to try this year.
It’s called High Society and you have to try and become the most fancy and lauded member of the upper crust and avoid scandal. Points for being avant garde etc.
To be honest I mainly got it because the artwork is TO DIE FOR. It’s all art nouveau because that’s the time period it’s set in.
So who else now desperately needs to see Jessie in full Georgian dress, corset, shift, petticoats, panniers and all?
It is so close to Christmas. Merry Christmas Jessica! Lovely updo and gorgeous outfit. You and Claudia have a safe and wonderful X-Mas.
So I live in the North Petworth neighborhood in Washington DC. So I got very excited when you said you were at the Petworth House.
old-timey christmas reminded me of how i went to the Dickens Faire in San Francisco a few weeks ago for the first time! It's like a Renaissance Faire but Victorian London Christmas instead. They had actors dressed as characters and people like the ghosts of christmas past present and future, the white rabbit (not sure why but ok), and The Queen with her giant entourage of guards. I walked by one of the stages where the queen was finishing up some kind of show or photo op or something, and i heard her say "happy christmas" like how the actual current queen says it. I thought that was funny because the queen was doing the queen's accent, but it's obviously a completely different queen. but none of the friends i was with even knew the queen has a different accent to begin with, so they definitely didn't notice this actor imitating it, and didn't understand why i thought it was amusing :( but i think the only reason i can recognize the queen's accent is because of this channel so i felt compelled to tell the story here lol
I just had my Christmas Eve cheese cutting ceremony! We played carols and sat down to a table decorated in greenery, oranges and spices wrapped in ribbons! It was a great idea and we loved it. Thanks Queen of Christmas and Jessica& Claudia
I love your channel so much. You and Claudia are both beautiful. I love your style and your accent is just amazing. 😊😊😊
WOW, Jessica you look so pretty & festive !! I wonder if people stopped you, thinking you were part of the official holiday celebration !! The coat was spectacular ! Maybe we should start wearing those again ! Claudia was her usual cute self and dressed for the weather. What a lovely time ya'll had, and thanks for showing us this event !! YAY
That was fabulous! I love the tour, and that you got to take us with you. I would live to see more tours of National Trust houses, if you can get permission to film there- and your health allowing, of course.
I can't believe it's nearly Christmas! Your vlogmas has helped me count down the days and have made each one a bit brighter this season.
Claudia got her cheese so all is well.
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Oh, I need more of this. Please go back and visit again, it was delightful to watch.
Your videos make my days always better.
My mother’s Christmas tree had Victorian Tinsel ... handmade strips of tin ... totally reusable
The green dress is beautiful! Where is it from?
8:48 Jessica's face after Claudia telling her that she's going to have some cheese was just everything 😂😂
This American: “OMG!!! They are on the wrong side of the road!!!”
Followed by: “Oh, they’re in England.”
Oh your hair is wonderful! Also, yes Christmas and history together make for an amazing video! Hope you and Claudia had a lovely Christmas
Absolutely loved all the information we learned. Can't imagine the person having the job of putting boots on turkeys. You looked amazing in that gown. Thanks for sharing this place, especially for those of us that probably won't be getting to see it in person.
Aaah, fond childhood memories of Petworth! Made me so happy to see you go to Petworth House.
Lol I was laughing so hard at Claudia BC she didn't get cook til enough... And then laughing she was like what's funny..so cute...and loved the cmas tour...
I DEMAND that RUclips get with the times and give me a "LOVE" button!! :)
Two of my favorite things, history and Christmas! And that dress really is stunning
I love your historical videos!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this video. It's definitely one of your best!!! Merry Christmas, and sending love over the miles from California. You are teaching me so much about how to love life, in the face of seemingly impossible obstacles (my father's disabilities and my caregiving). ❄️🎶🎄🎅🏻🎄🎶❄️ Joy to the World, and to all of you ⛄️💚🌟
We play “game of life” every Christmas! It’s my favourite and my in laws are leaving it to me in their will 😂🤣 xx
Oh my gosh what an amazing experience! That dress.. LOVE and your hair.... You looked amazing as always. Merry Christmas!!
Thank you for taking us on your tour. I love learning new things about our past.
This was so good to watch! I loved all the history and the costumes!!! Amazing!!!! xx
Love back in time for tea/Christmas. I love history
No interest in Christmas, still captivated by the history. You look as lovely as you do every day! (and I totally saw that Coke bottle on the tree - adorable)
I love this! Christmas is my birthday so I'm always fascinated.
I would love to see an updo tutorial.
I love this video and I adore your channel! You and Claudia fill my heart with joy.💕💕💕💕
What an amazing treat it must have been to try on those beautiful dresses!!!
This was fascinating, I learnt so much!
Also I have a mighty need for a Coke bottle Christmas ornament now 😅
Food Historian here- by the Georgian period there was more fruit and sugar than meat in a mince pie, especially at the wealth of this household. Pepper cakes are candies made from boiling whole peppercorns in water, or wine, straining them, then mix the liquid with sugar to make small balls, patties or ‘cakes’.
This made me so happy to see Jessica happy!! 😍🎄🎄
Incredibly fascinating episode, loved it! More visits to National Trust houses I say aye!
Love your videos about the National Trust! I live near Attingham Park, it's a beautiful place to walk the dogs and the house is amazing! I love your vlogmas so much, Merry Christmas!!
In Poland we still had sweets wrapped in colourful foil on the Christmas tree in my grandmother's house as well as other decorations
Merry Christmas!
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this video! Thank you so much for making it 🧡
Oh you darlings had such a good day out.
Every bit of this was perfect especially the dodering old man.
Peace
Hands down one of the coolest videos ever made!
Such lovely wholesome content plus fascinating history lesson, you're the best!
What a coincidence! We went to Petworth today- one of our favourite national trust properties! Merry Christmas 🎄
What fun! This I find very informative. I also hate tinsel because the real heavy kind from the 40s can't be found anymore, and I prefer beaded garlands anyway. What really would be awesome would be LED candle shaped lights to clip on.
I loved this video as all the other vlogs ! Thank you ! ❤️❤️
That was very interesting actually! And the house is so beautifully decorated :)
Does she have any historical mobility aids? I'd love to see those
Dear Jessica and Claudia, thanks for a thoroughly enjoyable video! Hugs, Alison.
I would LOVE to see you doing more historical costume stuff!!
Thank you soooo much for this vlogmas. It literally makes my day getting up and seeing you uploaded! 💖 I hope you and your family have an amazing christmas!
10/10 would recommend 👌 excellent video to cheer me up in bed with the flu 😒 love all of your videos, I really want to go to a national trust house now lol
Boil it until it’s enough, sounds like one of my grandmother’s recipes . Lol
I love how you did your hair for the day. Looks like little bonnet.
Love that hairstyle, Jessica!
Loved the video epescially the part about the forks that was interesting to learn! ❤
Such a lovely Christmas table
i live so close to here!! so nice that you came, ive been through the house before when i was young and so want to go again
OH TOO FUNNY!!! I'm in the United States, watching you're opening scene driving, my brain automatically said OH NO!!! YOU'RE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD!!! haha! I had to share that lol 😅😁
What a lovely and informative video! You looked so beautiful in that dress (you look good in all of them!!) Have you ever has Claudia try on any of your dresses? Just curious! Do her hair/makeup? You're both so heartwarming to watch, I love you both and merry Christmas! 🥰
My family and my partner's family are 100% opposite in terms of opinion of tinsel! Who knew it was such a divisive issue! The other one is coloured fairy lights vs white ones...
This is so, so wonderful!
my family always has a very traditionally northern german christmas tree with sweets, gingerbread, stars and garlands made from straw and little wooden churches and angels and of course real candles. so even baubles and fairy lights seem incredibly tacky to me.
In the green with that hairdo, I think Jessica reminds me of Lucille Ball did in the 50s, but with a better nose.
Yay for potted trees instead of dead ones! 😁❤️
I love late 18th century so much! I'm guessing that Jessica wasn't wearing a pair of stays due to her scoliosis but other than that it was a fairly accurate ensemble. Although, the skirt length suggests she's still a child 😂
Merry Christmas! Always fun looking back at old traditions and comparing them to now.
Part of me wants to do museum studies at post grad for the costume opportunities...
(And if you really love costumes, milestones in Basingstoke has a mega tent to wear around the museum...)
I’ve been to to Petworth last year at Christmas and it was lovely but I wished they just had more things when I came to visit ! 🏡🎄🎁🥰😍😇
A lot of this sounds very Swedish to me (of course both Britain and Germany have strong historical ties with Sweden, so it makes sense).
Pepparkaka (lit. pepper cake) is what we call gingerbread in Sweden. It's still common here to have it with cheese (blue cheese is very popular) and Julost (Christmas cheese) is a very long tradition. Nowadays, the Julost you see in shops here is usually a high fat, quite mild and creamy hard cheese. But either way, cheese is a pretty important part of the Swedish Christmas smörgåsbord (or as we call it: Julbord). But not as important as the pickled herring, meatballs and Christmas ham! ;P
Our high street is covered with the most hideous Christmas lights and brightly coloured tinsel. Also, put ribbon on your tree, tinsel looks so bad
This looks great, I will wait for captions though because I have no idea what is being said! WIll check back soon.. xox
Damn, I love the clothing from the 18th century...those sack dresses are amazing
YOUR HAIR! It's sooo pretty!
This exhibition sounds like a book I used to have as a child. It was interesting and I think it was published by Penguin
Great video to watch just before going to sleep
I had to google what tinsels was, but yeah, I'm definitely against. My whole family loves them though.
The shot of you coming down the stairs, with your hair up, put me very much in mind of Katharine Hepburn.