Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 56: Nearly November Auction Oddities
We’re not saying it was a sex dungeon, but it was a sex dungeon.
We’re also *pretty* sure we’ve uncovered a very real Miss Havisham situation.
The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 16: Feminism on Wheels
S03E16: Victorian dress reform, the Rational Dress Society, and the history of bicycles.
For Victorian women, bicycles usher in both a newfound freedom and a new wave in practical, flexible fashion: Pants!
Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 55: Behind the Curtain and the Skin
The chemistry, craftsmanship, and cringe behind wax figure making, Marie Tussauds Chamber of Horrors, and the early special effects makeup at the Grand Guignol.
The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 15: Waxing Dramatic
S03E15: Madame Tussaud and her famed museum of lifelike wax figures, and Grand Guignol, a pioneering theater at the forefront of shockingly realistic body horror.
Marie Tussaud’s exceptional talent brought a spark of (kind of creepy) life to the art and craft of creating wax portraiture, inviting the public to mingle with likenesses of the famous. The masterful craftspeople at Grand Guignol, by contrast, brought a truly dramatic spark of death–and an in-house doctor–to audiences looking for a different kind of thrill.
Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 54: October Auction Oddities
September auction oddities: A confusing nun and a clown that *probably* isn’t trying to take you apart with power tools.
The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 14: There’s No Place Like Utopia
S03E14: Celebration, Florida and Arcosanti, Arizona: Two very different approaches to building a (mostly failed) utopia.
Learning how to almost successfully thrive in the desert, and why we wouldn’t want Disney in charge of our HOAs.
Patreon Exclusive Episode: The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 13: Teddy Girls and Dueling Princesses: Our Super-Hot Historical Girlfriends
S03E13: The Legendary 1892 Topless Duel between Princess Pauline von Metternich of Vienna and Countess Anastasia Kielmansegg, and the Teddy Girls (who got a bad rap).
Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 52: September Auction Oddities
September auction oddities: A confusing nun and a clown that *probably* isn’t trying to take you apart with power tools.
The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 12: Professionally Sneaking
S03E12: The spy gadgets of WWII and a married couple–Jonna and Antonio Mendez–who were very real masters of disguise.
Spy craft meets spy crafts with lipstick compasses, pencil daggers, and a truly ingenious use of foot powder.
Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 51: Home Not So Sweet Home
Haunted houses and harrowing hazing.
Natali and Grace join forces to bring you the history of spooky haunted houses designed to thrill the public and talk about the very real horrors of hazing.
The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 11: Our Bodies, Our Clothes?
S03E11: The history of women in pants and boobs in fashion.
Ah, yes. The perennial drama of possessing cleavage and/or legs.
Patreon Dispatches from the Curiosity Shop 50: August Auction Oddities
In which we ask very important questions about humanity, but, per usual, get no answers.