The Ornamented Being

Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify. Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness.

Posted 1 year ago
Elegant gold embroidery on red velvet - part of French officer’s uniform

Hand-embroidered, ca. 1800. The details are breathtaking. It’s also amazing that this and so many other uniforms survived.

I am ridiculously interested in the caduceus but I can’t find anything about why it would be on the uniform or what the other symbols stand for.
- french
- caduceus
- medical
- military
- soldier
- uniform
- napoleonic war
- napoleonic
- officer
- amazing
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  i want to reblog this every time i see it, it’s just… so amazing wow
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  You had me at the caduceus and then again at “military uniform”
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  Beautiful
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