#fashion/style

[majestq]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

one of the deans in the MUC School of Dance rehearses with students

[eroticlamb]

kate bush featured on top pop (tv), march 1978 ꩜

[wh0-is-lily]

Shelley Duvall, 1970s

[a-dream-seeking-light]

kiko mizuhara for kiiks by michael bailey gates

[toyastales]

A bracelet clasp with a Medusa on an emerald cameo. Gold is treated with diamond and enamel. 18th century. Made in England.

[perversion666]

more photos of my mum during the 90s. she LOVED hot pink eye shadow

[von2dutch]

[lanndscape]

[achronalart]

FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

[whimsigothwitch]

Tiles! I want to have a kitchen wall full with different designs

[kitsunetsuki]

Bill Diodato - Under the Table, from The Graphis Photo Annual (2006)

[out-of-body-xperience]

Dream 80’s nyc penthouse

[ghettogotth]

Rita Ora with a chrome dinosaur spine, 2023

[lunadel66]

me as a cat