meirl

Back then you’d have had a village dance, I think. Wine, beer, or ale depending on the region of europe, a few instruments and a place to dance, plus a few tables with meat and bread/pasta. Some liquor if you were close to a monastery or a regionally famous site (whiskey, anisette, gin, vodka etc)

Not as fancy as this, unless you were urban upper middle class, but still pretty fun I’m sure.

This painting is, specifically, from “La belle epoque” so those guys are not royalty/noblemen, they are engineers, architects and bankers, in a big european city. You could have been invited if you were a rising star at the office, or the first kid in your family to finish some tertiary education. Maybe a marriage suitor trying to meet your boss’s daughter under his watchful eye.

This small room is clearly not the richest place, but there’s money here. It’s like going to a museum opening night for the new season, I guess. If you owned a suit and had oiled up hair, they would have let you in.

Oof, the level of historical shade in that response is unmatched. “You wouldn’t have been invited back then either” is the ultimate reality check.

I think Vienna is still holding these once a year. Where I am, also, one dedicated individual does a Slow Dance evening several times a year. Not the same scale, but is very nice in its own way.

Yeah, they call it “prom” in America and crazy people try to tell you it’s “one of the most important times of your life.”

I have to attend like 3-5 galas a year. None of them are fun.

I’ve always thought it would be AMAZING to be at an Austrian ball with either of the Johann Strauss orchestras.

I’m tearing up just thinking about it right now.

I would have been invited, I’m Elon Musk

every year there’s a debut ball in paris for high society, and what shocks me the most is that margaret qualley made her debut there. like out of the prominent european royalty that debut there and there’s margaret qualley. love her though

They really think life was a fairy tale back then huh?

what painting is this

charred

Who is “they”???

well, if we set our minds to it we can make our own gala and invite our own people to it! Take a year and while the planners and doers are making the gala the rest of us can be learning the lore, the style and the etiquette and rules of decorum and the dances oh yes the dances and the music ohh yes the music. 😀 And as usual the things we create as a people are always *The Best Ever*!

yeah we need the gala again only brought up to date.

And also very often young kids made to do it for parents.

Let’s make galas for everyone!