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Raccoon resting on chair

Ambrotype, ca. 1855-1860.

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Mary Pickford 1924

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eating pastries is so humiliating cause you'll be having the time of your life having it and then when you're finished you look down and you're covered in flakes and sugardust like fuuuck now everyone is going to know i'm a messy pastry whore

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Walking Dress with Deep Fringe Trim

c.1877-78

Designer: Frederiqua Aeschimann

Label: Mm. Frédériqua / 15. East 17th Street / New-York

Albany Institute of History & Art

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Embroidery, watercolour on cotton cloth, 2022

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“The Widows of Culloden” (a/w 2006) by Alexander McQueen 

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Insect wings. Martin Gerlach, photographer. Formenwelt aus dem Naturreiche. 1904.

Internet Archive

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EMERALD GREEN CUT VELVET CAPE, 1870’s - 1880’s. 

Velvet triangle having a deep floral border with cord and velvet trim having knotted fringe and quilted silk lining.

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Illustrations from Goethe’s Faust by Harry Clarke (1927)

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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Grote nachtpauwoog

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“The Phantom Of The Opera” (1925)

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Andrea Zanatelli

“the midnight sun ceremony”

embroidery

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Illustration from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Ronald Balfour (1920)

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fuck "girl lunch" fuck "girl math" a woman is a hairy animal who sweats and grunts and excretes and hungers and gets wrinkly and dies eventually. you have to love that.

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House of Worth, c. 1893-95. Red silk velvet.

“Severe corsetting falling at the natural waist, a flaring skirt, and the return of gigot sleeves constituted a fin-de-siècle extremism. The engorgement of sleeves and skirt made this extreme constriction seem even more exaggerated in the context of the bulbous shapes surrounding the ideal, hard, narrow waist. The style was maintained well into the twentieth century as a flattering stage effect by actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt. “

via The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, March 7, 1897