#Carters Fair

[royllowarch]

Steam Fair by Roy Llowarch Via Flickr: Carters Steam Fair is a travelling vintage Fair based in southern England. I had a walk around the fair rides before it opened in Gosport Hampshire.

[fighting-naturalist]

jack o'neill would absolutely tweet everything in this incredible post

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This Edwardian-style gown was created for the Ascot scene in the original 1956 Broadway production of the Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady. The scene was filled with beautiful gowns, all in black and white, in keeping with the famous “Black Ascot” of 1910, when King Edward VII died shortly before the event, making it inappropriate to wear color. Thus, those who attended wore all black, aside from accents of white from pearls and flowers.

The gown was designed by Cecil Beaton and executed by Helene Pons based on his sketches. The cream crepe dress has black velvet stripes and an embroidered lace bib. The photo above most likely shows actress Melisande Congdon in the costume, as she performed in the play for three years.

When Truman Capote decided to throw his famous “Black and White Ball,” – he used the scene from My Fair Lady as its inspiration. Deborah Davis’ wonderful book The Party of the Century mentions that much of the gossip about town was about “who” everyone would wear. Amanda Carter Burden, daughter of Babe Paley, was able to sidestep this conversation and not commit to any one designer when she chose a gown from the film My Fair Lady. A drawing of Amanda in costume, sketched by Kenneth Paul Block, appeared on the front page of Women’s Wear Daily.

But was her gown from the film adaptation of My Fair Lady? Amanda was based in New York City, and it would have been far easier for her to obtain one of the costumes from the Broadway show.

In addition, no costume in the film accurately matches the one she wore to the ball. There is one that is similar and clearly based on the same design, but it appears to be a different piece. 

In 2015, the dress from the Broadway production went up for sale, where it sold for $1280. It contains a lace dickey that the auction house noted has been added post-production. The dickey is clearly visible on Amanda Carter in the Black and White Ball photo. While I cannot confirm for certain that she is wearing the dress from the stage production rather than the film production, I am confident that she is.

Costume Credit: Katie S.

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[lilisouless]

Did i get the concept or i am lost?

[pro-royalty]

Victoria Monét

[a-state-of-bliss]

Vanity Fair Feb 1996 - Helena Bonham Carter by Sheila Metzner

[blackwomenrule]

[honeyxmonkey]

99% sure that Vameus redacted some of Carter’s height in the womb as collateral

"If I make him small enough, he can't hurt me."

[cuppatealove]

Having a life is really starting to eat into my hobbies tbh

[asalesbian]

Clara from Welcome To St. Paxton contemplating the ocean for @podcastgirlsweek Day 4: Nobody understands her like I do...

invisibility animation imprisoned under the cut because i couldn't figure out how to not let photoshop kill the quality 😔

[pluckyredhead]

Every now and then I remember that roy had sex with hawkgirl and that she just randomly said another guys name and its …just so akward 😭😭😭 Roy cant catch a break

Everything about that relationship was such a toxic mess. There's that great moment when they meet and he calls her "pretty bird" (Me in 2006: "Ooh, do I ship this?") and then it was downhill all the way (Me in 2007: "I most assuredly do not ship this.").

[ratatatastic]

personal favourite genre of matthew paired up for interviews is just him going you know what YOU answer this first to his partner because he cant be bothered to form an answer by himself and rather buildoff an existing one

"go ahead fill" he mumbles as he adjusts his shawl (the modesty towel) around his neck not unlike a fair lady would as swagu scrambles to the mic in efforts to fufill his dearest princess' request to which he was no expecting to do but will do with aplomb

anyways i will never get over how they talk about bob and how much praise he gets (very deserved but even more so for the shutout)

florida panthers @ new york rangers game 1 postgame interview | 5.22.24 (x)

[thurstongrey]

[evilhorse]

I’m sick of being patient and stoic and stiff-upper lipped in one series of calamities after another!

(Captain America #202)

[lunarflare64]

The Inevitable Blood&Sugar Memes Have Arrived

As always when we reach a certain point in our worldbuilding, we start rotating the characters without being able to do anything about it, and so memes begin

[pro-royalty]

Cardi B at Vanity Fair’s Oscars Party (2024)