#brown clothing

[classic-art-favourites]

Man in Oriental Costume by Rembrandt, 1635.

[limeshade]

In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig

[melioristicbeast]

"DerekDerekDEREK holy mother of GOD I'm about to fall 200 feet to my DEATH" "Better hold on tight, spider monkey" "What the hell is a sp- NO don't you daaAAA"

Another of my friend K's suggestions - when she found out I'd never watched twilight she suggested we do so together, but she keeps insisting she won't tell me what happens in the last ones in advance because then I'll 'never agree to watch them'. i am afraid.

[miceskates]

robin lineup! gave them cute + stylish outfits

[frostedmagnolias]

An unusual and finely tailored tobacco-coloured wool coat

c. 1911

Kerry Taylor Auctions

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: vintagelygrace

[heartnosekid]

vampireoftheshire on ig

[romankvn]

[hollis-art]

i love playing dress up!! yay!!!!

[hauntedwaitingroom]

dean jacket this and dean jacket that. NO! i’ve had ENOUGH! tell me what you know about this mf. literally the most important piece of sam’s wardrobe and it just vanished. I NEED ANSWERS!

[cherishedpngs]

bags pngs .*

[franollie]

some stephies i drew on my flight

[frostedmagnolias]

Day Dress

early 1890s

Canadian Museum of History

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: ardently_adele

[radiantrice7]

the favs

[jade-e06]

the best exes ever!

this was genuinely so fun to draw, i absolutely love steph’s hair

they are THE gossip girls! the tea they spill to each other…