#fashion & art history blog

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They didn't make it onto the fashion plates; they were the fashion plates

Lovely Victorian women of color dressed in elegant style.

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Salvador Dalí ‘The Lucky Number of Dali’ 1965

Color lithograph from original gouache

85, Dali’s magic number! He scribbles his name and his number all over the print, interweaving them with vibrant colors, explosive splatters, and calligraphic forms.

A strange cluster of lips and eyes seem to float in from the left order. Several circles and sun-burst-like forms explode across the picture surface.

We see a more playful side of Dalí, joyous but expressive as always.

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Revolutionary Angela Davis interview in Chicago, 1972

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Hornet costume in Ardern Holt's Fancy Dresses Described: Or, What to Wear at Fancy Balls • 1879

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"The Doesn't Slip" Sears Advertisment McCall's Magazine, September 1968

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Court Jester Core 🏰 my pinterest board

• maybe this is a little niche but with the medieval revival on the rise for 2025 im begging everyone to start dressing like jesters and clowns or in harlequin print it would literally mean so much to me, personally •

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my (stone) butch oc, lovet (she / her)

she's a werewolf, a black Bahamian immigrant bitten by an american cop after making her way here on a boat with an Irish friend, Old Boss (not his real name). she overtakes his position as owner for their speakeasy Saint Peter, a refuge for society's deviants and undesirables.

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Auguste Toulmouche (French, 1829–1890) • The Letter • Unknown date

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how about we bring this back

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The Carrick Coat

James Tissot (French, 1836-1902) • On the Ferry Waiting • c.1878 • Private collection

A Carrick or Garrick (in Great Britain) is an overcoat with three to five cape collars, worn by both men and women primarily for travel and riding, in the 19th century.

Artist unknown. Costume Parisien. Chapeau de Velours. Carrick et Guêtres de Drap., 1816. Hand-coloured engraving. London: Victoria and Albert Museum

Sources:

Fashion History Timeline

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Goshka Datsov ‘Mary Magdalene’s Dream’ 1914

Goshka Savov Datsov (1885 - 1917) is a Bulgarian painter, one of the first ones to be influenced by the symbolism art movement.

Studies in the Art academy in Rome, but returns to Bulgaria in 1914 to present his art that he made whilst abroad.

During the First World War he was mobilized as a military artist to the Fourth Division until his death on the Macedonian front in 1917.

In addition to battle painting, Datsov also left many colorful landscapes, figurative compositions, nudes and still lifes with flowers.

In this painting, Datsov shows us Mary Magdalene’s dream involving Jesus. She was a woman who sinned before repenting herself and started to follow his teachings. This is a great representation of one of the seven deadly sins, lust, as it shows Mary Magdalene, a woman, lusting and wanting the man behind the saint.

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Vintage Black Hollywood aka Black Glamour

During the early 20th century Black Americans started producing their own films these were known as "race films" due to them being created for Black audiences and predominantly viewed by them. If a film had an all black cast it was considered a race film as well. This period lasted from the 1900s to the 1950s. Here are some classic films from that time.

Stormy Weather (1943)

Hi-De-Ho (1947)

Carmen Jones (1954)

Anna Lucasta (1958)

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Albert Beck Wenzell (American, 1864-1917)

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Eileen (2023) Director: William Oldroyd