#only hearts

[pocketvenuslux]

I've been getting into shrugs and wraps lately as the weather cools down and luckily, it seems like more lingerie and fashion brands are designing these types of pieces. From left to right, top to bottom:

Blush's Gaia shrug is a versatile mesh piece that you could layer with many lingerie sets CA$40

Thistle & Spire's Smokin Mirrors shrug design makes a little more of a statement with its flame sleeves and silver closure CA$96

Only Heart's CouCou Lola Cadeau Blouse in the maroon Dahlia colourway is the perfect mix of autumnal depth and feminine frills with its front-tie bow and dainty look. Also available in a pale pink and black. CA$119

Hopeless Lingerie's Elodie top is a bell sleeve mesh and lace wrap guaranteed to add a bit of gothic drama to any lingerie set. AU$190

Studio Pia's Naga flared sleeves, made with a custom embroidered tulle, offer a truly opulent look. They are designed to attach to the arm straps rather than to be worn over a lingerie piece which allows for an unexpected backless look. CA$260

Edited to add: Agent Provocateur's Temptressa cape features extravagant angel sleeves, sumptuous French Leaver's lace, silk bindings and crystal details at the neck. CA$1145

[womenofwrestlingfashion]

Carmella is wearing the Tangerine Dreams Baby Wrap in Perri ($64) & Tangerine Dreams Bell Pants in Perri ($101) from Only Hearts

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[obsob]

i am a being capable of immeasurable love and whimsy

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

[angelsdean]

me whenever i see /pos and /hj: why are you calling me a piece of shit and what do handjobs have to do with any of this :/

[immortal-cataclysm]

been playing peak recently

[novaneondream]

it’s our turn to make you smile

[fairycosmos]

unfortunately if you are an old friend of mine i will always care about you no matter what even if we haven't seen each other in forever because i still remember what you were like 7 years ago and i still remember how it felt to be young with you and i still have a lot of love for you in the back of my mind

[chloesimaginationthings]

The moment FNAF movie Vanessa knew she fucked up

[pocketvenuslux]

Thought I'd start off the new year with a little mycelium magic. I first spotted mushrooms being featured in lingerie in 2020 with Uye Surana's Mystical Mushroom sets. Since then, I've seen mushrooms incorporated in a less obvious way, subtly worked into prints.

From left to right, top to bottom:

Fleur du Mal's Magical Mushroom PJ Set is made with 100% silk.

Uye Surana's Mystical Mushroom print (the third mushroom print offered by this designer) features a black mesh and burnt sienna lace colourway.

Free the Fillies' Autumn Treasures knicker showcases hand embroidered toadstools.

Mushroom prints can be a bit twee but Thistle & Spire's Chanterelle bra gives a more upscale look.

Only Hearts' Go Ask Alice collection offers multiple colour ways of what appears to be a pretty floral stretch lace, but upon closer inspection, it's all mushrooms. (It appears this collection was available prior to 2020.)

Solstice Intimates has carried multiple lingerie sets and bodysuits with hippie shroom prints in a vintage aesthetic for quite some time but I like their new ethereal mushroom lace best, especially in their Wood Nymph dress.

[lena-luthor]

It beats for you.

[secretsimpleness]

Inquisitor Orlesians-Can-Burn-In-A-Ditch-For-All-I-Care Lavellan. + Josephine, Leliana, some noble / Dragon Age Inquisition (c) Bioware

[its-your-mind]

[1alchemistart]

dont got much to offer for The Holiday but have these sillies!

happy valentines day :D