i burn for you they almost cast me as
the jew clearly you could see from that
performance but they went with reggae
for some reason i still don't understand
why
hello vanity fair i am nicola cochlin
and today i am bringing you through some
bridget and slang which hopefully i know
and if i don't we'll both finite
together and isn't that exciting
first one is vi count not this count
like anthony bridgeton as a vi count one
step
above a lord but not as good as a duke
so that's why they're all excited when
daphne gets married to the duke because
it means she's slightly higher position
in society i've also known how to say
this word for a really long time because
there used to be biscuits
called vicam biscuits and i mean biscuit
in the cookie sense there's a lot of
definitions happening here even beyond
bridgeton food
definitions who knew tan tan is short
for the bon-ton
which in french means good manners it's
like high society
there were so the celebrities of their
day they were the people that the gospel
was written about and
they used to like chill with the queen
she was their girl landau a landau is
like a fancy horse-drawn carriage
it's funny the carriage is in bridgeton
obviously they're real you get into them
but it's super like
uncomfortable to ride in a carriage
because it's all the cobblestone streets
and you're sort of jiggling all over the
place and you know your wig's going to
fall off a spinster
i mean look i can't believe we still
have this term men have
bachelor her bachelor's cool and he can
go and he hangs out with his friends
thing on holiday
but if you're like oh me and my spinster
friends people be like oh no
no that's not that's terrible no a
spinster is just an unmarried woman but
it's like such a mean
it gives me like rumpelstiltskin vibes
it's something we need a new
word we need like hot single let's
get rid of spinster come on it's 20 21.
dandy i don't know why i'm doing this in
a weird maggie smith was there's a
dundee it's like a fashionable guy
he's into his clothes he's a bit of a
rogue he's kind of sexy exciting he
knows what he's about
second so i didn't learn this from
bridgeton i learned it from hamilton you
have really made me annoyed
and therefore i'm gonna shoot at you and
you're gonna shoot at me and that's how
we will solve it
okay firstly who came up with that it's
a really dumb idea no offense but then
your second is the person who like
brings your pistols they are like the
ones who are
in charge of executing your estate and
in anthony's case during the jewel if he
had been killed benedict was the second
so you would have taken over all of
anthony's responsibilities also like
you're just annoyed why are you making
me
do all these things with your life
dowager dowager is
like lady danbury she is like a wealthy
widow who's inherited her husband's
estate
they were nearly the women in society
that had the most agency because they
kind of had their own money and could do
what they wanted to do
and didn't have to marry some other
weird dude so being a dowager was
actually
a really good time let's be honest when
you burn for someone it means you just
like
really have the hearts for them you're
just like all about them and
after the pandemic there's gonna be a
lot of burning for people do it
carefully that's all i say
courting so courting is essentially
dating you know there's some parts of
courting that i'm like bring it back
you know when you go to the ball and
then the next day they show up at your
house with flowers and a puppy
where did that go why is it like tinder
nowadays swipe left and right no bring
me a puppy if you were interested
adopt don't shop also your grace that's
how you would address
a duke or a duchess would you address a
why count like that i don't know but
we're heading into season two so i guess
i'm gonna find out pretty soon that's
quite good
the dark walk so the dark walk was
foxhole pleasure gardens was south of
the river thames in london and the dark
walk was where ladies of the night would
go and sort of apply their trade a lot
of young men spent their time there but
if you were a lady caught there a lady
in high society you were
in some serious trouble which is why
daphne bridgeton in episode one she gets
really scared that she's near
the dark walk because she would be
ruined miniatures pretty sure they were
created for bridgette so they're like a
mini deck of playing cards with
paintings of all the eligible suitors
so it's like you kind of knew who was
single it was like social media before
social media
and they'd be like the duke of
tittlington
and he has a lot of land and you want to
spot him at the ball later
and then he wouldn't look like his
miniature and he'd be like oh my god i
got catfished and
it was the whole thing the drawing room
so the drawing room in modern
parlance i would call it a sitting room
like your living room those regency
ladies they weren't kind of allowed to
do anything so it's where you like
sat and read just where you chilled with
your homegirls basically
leading strings so to my best
understanding
leading strings were like you know when
you see like a little toddler on a walk
with their mom and they've got like
those little straps around their
shoulders so they don't like run away
that's leading strings so it's a lot
it's an implied alarm bridge
and they're like oh hit his belly out of
leading strings and i was always like i
don't even know what that means but i do
now
life is a learning process my case may
case means hurry
the f up what are you doing you're
wasting my time i have somewhere to be
i'm a busy lady
hurry yourself up stupid and minced
you're just like oh i'm so cute i'm just
like in front of the queen what i don't
even know my life what's going on and
i'm just like a cute girl and i know
nothing
kind of like that it's like what daphne
does in front of the queen and she nails
it she's like the diamond promenade
promenade means to walk in bridgeton
it's like you're walking
for the display of the sutures you're
trying to you're trying to catch a
husband when you're going for your
promenade and i mean they just dressed
up in those times it's not like us now
when you look for your promenade and
sweatpants
it was like the full look to put on a
nod with your ladies
just going for a walk second born i mean
it's the prince harry thing right it's
like
the first son has all the responsibility
he has to manage the estate has to do
what he wants and the second born can go
and marry like
an american hottie and go live in l.a
basically so like benedict bridget and
also can go and be
you know artists and live this
avant-garde life the person has the
responsibility the second son has the
fun to sire and heir
you have to make a baby that will take
over your estate i feel like that was a
very
pc way of describing that someone has to
be the next duke of hastings after simon
gotta make an air gotta make it happen
swoon soon that was your best
flirting technique in 1813 london is
just to like fall on the ground
and you know what yeah why not all the
other girls are just walking around and
they're like petticoats and you're like
no i'm just gonna fall to the floor it's
a regency death drop
it's a swoon debuting to debut that when
you were like 16
17 you were like you are now old enough
to get married and bring some money in
so we're just gonna throw you out there
in front of the queen and all those
dudes are gonna look you
and then like one of them can marry you
it was a bit weird
i mean if i had to actually present it
to like queen charlotte
irl i would simply swoon
darling snuff so snuff is like tobacco
that you can
inhale i used to live in oxford i
remember there was a snuff shop
and it's really stinky and i i'm not
into it but queen charlotte was super
into it
people thought she was doing something
illegal she wasn't it was simply
some snuff the modiste so the mediste is
like the dress designer
all your clothes would be made from
scratch and if you were
one of the bontan you would be going to
get all your designs made and you'd want
to look like
the flyest girl at the ball so you need
a really good modist and then she's
going to have
lots of sewers underneath here that are
going to make the garments that she
designed so
she was like the uh louis vuitton of the
regency era
a rake a rake is like a bad boy he's
gonna ruin your life
he's gonna be like really into you and
then not text you back or not like send
you a wood pigeon or like what
you know whatever the equivalent was
he's an f boy regency f boy
simon the duke of tastings classic rake
a duke a duke is he's nobility i think
he's like one under a prince
if you've bagged yourself a duke you
have done well some serious houses you
are getting
you are kind of one of the cool ladies
in society you're gonna get invited to
all the good parties
oh a diamond of the first water i
thought this was made up for brigitte
and it wasn't it was an
actual thing a diamond of the first
water is just the most gorgeous girl in
that season
so in our season it's daphne bridgeton
who's elegant and flawless and perfect
as you know there's a lot of pressure
when it comes to being the diamond of
the first water i just want to be like
the garnet or the opal
of the first water that's kind of my
level that i could cope with
this social season so the social season
was where the high society families
would
come from their country homes in the
spring and early summer
to london to get their eligible
daughters married off
into other wealthy families they all
sort of intermarried one another whether
that was a good idea or not that is
what they did skyed skying is about
art you would go into a gallery and the
really good pieces are at eye level
and then something that's not so great
you're just going to put it up as high
as you can
it's just like color up there but we
don't need to we don't want to worry
about it
set his cap to set your cap someone
means like that's the dude i like
penelope has set her cap at colin
bridges and even though colin's like
what he hasn't he hasn't noticed yet
sadly she's not very good
your country seat so if you are one of
these super wealthy families you have
two homes because like i guess one's not
enough or something you've got your
your london house and you've got your
country seat so it's where you would go
for your shooting and your fencing and
sometimes you'd have country parties
it's your second house basically
okay a woman's honor it's her virginity
they were super serious about virginity
and
you couldn't even like kiss a guy you
couldn't hold his hand you were in
trouble
it's super unfair because the women
would get all the hard time about it and
the dudes could go around doing what
they wanted going along the dark walk
having the time of their lives
but if a woman's honor was besmirched
she was in trouble
a barb firstly a nicki minaj fan but
secondly
it's like a read it'd be like
her petticoats are a little bit crap
that was a terrible barb there's tris
trying to think of it on the spot and
that's what came out and we just have to
accept that
drool droll is like dryly funny so
someone like lady danbury who's like
super super dry but very very hilarious
they are
drool dunderhead in ireland we were like
you aegis
you're dumb but you're cute and i still
like you it's not like a horrible thing
to call someone
it's not the nicest but you get over it
well that was it thank you so much for
watching i hope you've learned something
today and that you were
fully prepared to enter the social
season for the second season of
bridgeton which will be coming
at some point i don't know wait for
netflix to tell you i don't stop i'm not
in charge of that
bye