I won't be doing that at my wedding, mainly because I don't like the historical implications of it (the way men want some piece of ownership over a woman's sexuality) - but also a little bit because it always makes me cringe with secondhand embarrassment when I go to a wedding that does it.
@lindaabraham871524 күн бұрын
Your language habit, or accent, or whatever it is... is very disagreeable, and tiresome. I am interested in the subject, but I can't listen to you. Please get with a language coach and practice before making any more videos.
@cindysmith9213Ай бұрын
I think it depends on the couple and attending guests. I'd do it along with other fun campy things. After a sweet little ceremony. Because I'm also a sappy girl. It would totally be a tounge and cheek. It's fun time. Like a 3 legged race is planned. (Gusts should wear picnic clothes.) It's a ceremonial event where 2 should act as 1. A ring toss where gold covered hoops are tossed over bride and groom tall traffic cones. I really love my mate and have an abundance of silliness that comes from being in a safe heartfelt relationship.
@paramount243Ай бұрын
i like it <33
@recoveringsoul755Ай бұрын
Difficult to hide a pregnancy unless the skirt halloons out directly under the breasts. If the stomach is still flat...and only the hips and butt and thighs were hidden, how does that hide pregnancy?
@saundrayork767Ай бұрын
I imagine that, in hot weather, wearing a farthingale would hold the skirts away from the body and thereby be more comfortable than having all that fabric clinging around one's legs -- which is why hoop skirts were popular in Southern states in pre-Civil War USA
@savvygoodАй бұрын
Sounds like a good book
@debbralehrman5957Ай бұрын
Thank you👏🏻👏🏻🌹
@debbralehrman5957Ай бұрын
Thank you I did not realize the farthingale had such a reputation. I new that Katherine of Aragon introduced this item to England.
@sarahabendallАй бұрын
While Katherine wore it when she first arrived but she quickly changed into English fashions. It’s not until the 1540s that we start to see it regularly in English wardrobes 😊
@KraftyKreatorАй бұрын
Never been married but I probably wouldn’t do the garter removal. It’s a bit creepy, everyone staring while the groom fumbles around under the bride’s gown while she is embarrassed and everyone making crass jokes… I always thought it a bit tacky- whether a new or old tradition. And yes the young men hate having to stand there and often run away as no one wants to get married next. And it singles out all the unmarried men and women which some people find uncomfortable, the bouquet and garter tossing. The only way I might do it if the groom had to have a garter removed under a dress/skirt/kilt too, but I don’t see that happening, to make things at least equal in terms of gender.
@liolef74032 ай бұрын
Fascinating👏🙏🎉
@habituscraeft2 ай бұрын
I remember reading a collection of marriage traditions that seemed mostly to source folk traditions from the late 19th and early 20th century, and it talked about a region where it was customary for the BEST MAN to remove the garter WITH HIS TEETH and throw it to his mates. 😅😬
@sarahabendall2 ай бұрын
Oh wow!!! How scandalous for that period as well!! Thanks for sharing 😊
@violetkit94772 ай бұрын
I feel some sort of undergarment would absolutely be necessary to protect the thighs from each other. I can't wear skirts without something underneath
@SG-1-GRC2 ай бұрын
We can't win. Misogyny, the art of making sure men are always right and women always wrong, whatever you do. The soft fall of the Regency dresses criticised as too clingy, cages that draw skirts away from the body criticised as deceitful and immoral.
@christinh69332 ай бұрын
My husband threw my garter at our wedding! I definitely can see how some people consider it tacky, but it was honestly a lot of fun and it never crossed my mind to not do it.
@quicksilvertears9212 ай бұрын
I did not do this. I found it too weird with my older sister's wedding and omitted it in mine.
@kaib5352 ай бұрын
I wish you wouldn't use AI generated images. I'm so tired of seeing them
@marciemcdonald2752 ай бұрын
We skipped the garter toss. I’m a wedding officiant and didn’t want a bouquet toss either. No young women fighting over my flowers or men scattering to avoid the garter for us! Instead I presented my bouquet to the woman who had been married the longest as a hope for a long, happy marriage. In place of the garter toss, we had a “Bonny knees” contest with the gentlemen in kilts strutting their stuff and showing off their knees (we had a Scottish theme and broke from many usual American wedding practices.)
@americanwoman62462 ай бұрын
Good luck with your new channel!!
@sarahabendall2 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@Elvertaw2 ай бұрын
Really good!! This is something I was unaware of 👏🏼👏🏼
@ouryayommay94352 ай бұрын
why use an AI image for something there was almost certainly a real picture of? not only is it unethical but it just looks bad in general. :/
@sarahabendall2 ай бұрын
Hi! This is the second comment I’ve had like this, so I’m just going to quickly address it here. There are no historical images of garter or stocking tossing - if there was I would have incorporated them. As you can see I’ve also used stock images of modern weddings - believe it or not there are very few stock images of the garter toss that I could find too. And of course I’m not going to infringe someone’s privacy or copyright by using my own images of friends weddings or taking a random image off the internet. The AI images are a bit of fun - as indicated from the end of the video. They don’t regularly feature in any of my videos. If they’re not to your tastes then please feel free not to watch. Thanks!
@fuzzytheduck68212 ай бұрын
I've been to my fair share of weddings but when I first heard about this it was a complete culture shock.
@pseudo.account2 ай бұрын
Well both historical, and super tacky and uncomfortable. I wonder if those historical brides would have forgoed this tradition if they were given the opportunity to reject it
@lindean20132 ай бұрын
You’re a historian and decided to show non historical references in a video about the history of a tradition. AI is trained on existing artwork pulled with no credit to the original artist or context. While I understand not having a budget to purchase artist renderings or pay for use rights- you clearly had enough info to create the video without the AI images. This is really disappointing from an educator, historian, and creator.
@maryanndapp42832 ай бұрын
I was married 43 years ago! My husband said no to the garter throw. His reasons were private! I was fine with it.
@curiousfirely2 ай бұрын
Nope, no garter throw at my wedding, 15 years ago now. For all the reasons you stated, I felt like it was tacky and gross. But my wedding was non-traditional in many other ways, so I wasn't worried about one more. 🎉
@OcarinaSapphr-2 ай бұрын
You had me wheezing around the 5-mins-mark! History is fascinating & _wild_ ...!
@blueob22112 ай бұрын
I have the sudden urge to embroider a strip of fabric that says "Garter? I barely know 'er!
@sarahabendall2 ай бұрын
Haha love it! You should 😅
@robintheparttimesewer67982 ай бұрын
Well it's older and much more complicated than I realized! So I'm thinking traditionally tacky. I was married in the 80's and was told that who ever caught the garder was next to wed. It made sense at the time...
@sgmarr2 ай бұрын
I recall my mom or SIL saying something about the Tradition Ryme: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue. I said "WHAT??!?" So i got told about how a garrer and jewelry, flowes, dress, headdress, etc, can provide these things. I dont recall what we did about it, other than i had neclace and garter from my mom. She still had hers... My wedding ended up being a Farce. Nothing normal about it. So the Wedding had to be done in another City, in the Office of Justice of Peace, during Work Hours. 2 Witness only could Attend..It was Winter and a snow storm had huge snowbanks on the sidewalks. Only boits i had were NOT Wedding material. Knee high BLACK boots! We had a small meal at our new Apartment. And a Reception the weekend gollowing. No danving, carousing or Rowdy young men. I returned the garter to my mom. But i did hear stories from Older Gen, about Shiveries (? Spelling), that used to be geld as Pranks on Wedding nights! Plastic wrapping the Outhouse seats. Banging pots and blowing horns, singing and rowdie hollering, outside the house at 2am! Banging on doors, demanding Entry. I asked the person Why? Why DO all this? He replied it was Fun! It was like Pranking and Joking! I said nothing, but my mind was NOT impressed! To me? It stuck me AS Jealousy, Unkindness, Ignorant AND the possibility many of these WERE guilty of Leud Imaginings of the Wife. This is blantantly Against God's Laws! Men are to keep their Eyes, Minds and Imaginings to their self! It was Sin TO even start Daydreaming, as they stared at the uncovered bosoms! But these Tradtions of Man, rarely EVER take into Account God's Commands! And the Churches often Aided! Notice the Pastor writing about it, in those Articles you have? Another Old Custom, was Proving OF the Consumation, BY Displaying the blood stain on the sheets!! Public Proving! Proving of the Males Abikity AND the Virgin Status of Wife. Alsobyo be Used IN Divorcing Matters, etc. I find it ALL very vulger and Offensive and i am NOT a young lady! I am 64! I HATE TRADITIONS! 75% or higher, have HARMS within them!
@EmL-kg5gn2 ай бұрын
And I thought having to kiss in front of everyone was bad enough 😭 If you could count on people (men) to be respectful maybe it’d be different but you can’t
@elizabethmcglothlin54062 ай бұрын
So, it's a ceremonial deflowering. Yep, that's tacky. I threw neither the bouquet nor garter.
@PicoAndSepulveda2 ай бұрын
Fascinating and infuriating!
@kimberlysanders9202 ай бұрын
I always heard that the men who caught the garder were next in line to find a wife or get married.
@bethperry41052 ай бұрын
In the UK, when you go shooting/hunting/deer stalking, it’s still common to wear similar woollen stockings with your tweed suit. The socks aren’t elasticated, so they come with woollen garters you tie under the knee. Interesting that this garment seemingly hasn’t changed at all and probably one of the few examples where garters are used like this
@sarahabendall2 ай бұрын
Oh I had no idea! That’s really cool, definitely something that hasn’t changed for a very long time. Thanks for letting me know! 😊
@moonargentum2 ай бұрын
Historical tacky tradition, for sure! Though not surprising when the Order of the Garter is one of the highest honours in the UK 😅 (I also love how you betray your Early Modern-ism with saying men stopped wearing stockings in 'the 19th century or something'!)
@sarahabendall2 ай бұрын
Haha yes, guilty 😅
@huntress_94412 ай бұрын
I've never heard of this. Straight people are so wild
@jeweledsnail2 ай бұрын
So it's an OLD gross, creepy custom! I have no intention of getting married, but I wouldn't include it in my wedding ceremony if that changed.
@kerriemckinstry-jett86252 ай бұрын
There's a fantastic picture of me tossing the bouquet with a look on my face which says I was thinking about all those videos where the bouquet hits the fan, or someone has a catastrophic wardrobe issue while attempting to catch it, etc. We did the garter toss for laughs, honestly. We had a crazy enough group to be silly about it. I knit my own garter & put a blue ribbon in it. My husband had trouble getting it off my leg (cue the laughter) & ended up undoing the ribbon, so I had to take it from him & fix it before it could be tossed. 😂 That's all, it was more silly than anything else. Those disturbing AI pictures at the end were amazing. 🤣
@ah57212 ай бұрын
4th commenter - cant believe I'm this early on a video ! I didn't do a garter toss - felt it was creepy, gross and tacky as hell! I just threw my bouquet an according to the pictures and personal recounts my good cousin and maid of honor decided that my cousin would catch it for good fun because no one really reached for it the being in the front of the gaggle of women. At one wedding reception I attended the Bride had grow men from the what I assumed was the Grooms side ( the groom wasn't very mature for being 23- not surprising why with a family like that ) trying to pin gift money in the form of bills onto her dress and near her bosom ! She being very well endowed - thought it was in good fun, being a fun loving person thought if slightly embarrassing but funny . I would have been mortified if I were her ! never saw the money pinning thing again. must have been just that weird family. The was around 2009-2010 In Missouri at LDS/mormon wedding reception
@KraftyKreatorАй бұрын
I remember the money thing, I’m Chinese American non LDS. It was during the dances with the bride and groom. One pinned the money to the bride and the groom, normally on the veil and or dress for the bride and the unfortunate groom ended up with a tail and or it looped around between his legs and pinned on the opposite side. I suppose it was “payment” for the dance, although I’m not sure..
@annalieff-saxby5682 ай бұрын
If anyone's interested, there's a bloodcurdling story called "Mother of Monsters" by, I think, de Maupassant, which deals with garments designed to conceal pregnancy.
@sarahabendall2 ай бұрын
Ooh I’ll have to check this out!
@Ater_Draco2 ай бұрын
I've mostly been to Welsh weddings, and a couple of Australian or English weddings. I've never seen a garter toss. There used to be a tradition at Welsh weddings for the photographer to take a pic of the bride with her leg out to show off the garter, but even that seems to have died out the past 10 years or so. I wouldn't have done a garter toss at my wedding. It sounds really creepy TBH.
@melyndaloftis63502 ай бұрын
I was married 12 years ago and I did wear a garter however, we did not do the toss. We only had family members attend, and I would have been way too embarrassed to do the toss with family members. So my husband removed it at the end of the evening when it was just the two of us. I think I chose to wear a garter because in the back of my head it was sort of a good luck thing I suppose and I wore a blue one to make sure I incorporated something blue.
@bonniecolleenpappin88072 ай бұрын
My wedding(s) were also family and older friends. No rowdy young men at all. So embarrassing! Especially if the couple have already been living together.
@user-yc4fz7vv6u2 ай бұрын
I enjoyed the disturbing AI pictures at the end
@melenatorr2 ай бұрын
That painting is not Joana of Portugal, but Juana of Castile, who was born in 1479. We do not have a portrait of Joana, as far as we know, but please do not use the wrong painting - Juana is a notable person in her own right, and so is Joana. They deserve to be distinguished from one another. Also, of course, Juana is not, in this portrait wearing Spanish fashion, but Flemish, as suited her position as Archduchess at this time. Juana did, though, wear Spanish fashion during a feast in Blois as she and Philip journeyed back to Spain with Philip the Handsome, in 1501. She caused a positive sensation and impressed the French court with her dancing.
@sarahabendall2 ай бұрын
Thanks for your comment! You are to totally correct - my apologies. I got my Juana/Joana queens of Castile mixed up. I can’t edit the video, but I’ll pop a correction in the information box!
@kaleahcollins45672 ай бұрын
Yet this would come back in style 200 years later slighty different
@DariaAmato-wz2xg2 ай бұрын
So what did a pregnant married woman wear
@codename4952 ай бұрын
Lose robes and they stayed in confinement until they delivered.
@myladyswardrobeАй бұрын
@@codename495 Nope. They wore the fashionable gowns with farthingales. There are a few paintings where its VERY obvious that the lady is pregnant (she is really showing it off) but the stomacher isn't flat and down as the growing belly is pushing it up...not the farthingale. The book The Tudor Child by Ninya Mikhaila shows in photos how full fashionable 1590s wheel farthingale can be worn whilst 6 months pregnant and when not pregnant.
@therani96002 ай бұрын
So, i figure nothing changes in humanity lol
@denisemcdougal64452 ай бұрын
Wow, and here we are again with men voting to control women.
@kikidevine6942 ай бұрын
Put wheels on the guarda infanta and you have a baby walker.