Court Life vs. Club Land

Lauren of "Marie Antoinette's Gossip Guide" has written a fantastic comparison between 18th century aristocratic culture and the club scene in the 1980's. As an avid fan of both periods, I feel she did a wonderful job assessing the principal overlaps between the two cultures: extreme vanity, excessive spending, and utter abandonment into fantastic hedonism, among others.

Read the whole article here. And then admit to yourself that you'd like to don pink lipstick, a pompadour and rock like a noble until the sun comes up.