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What my bisexual boyfriend will be wearing when he walks down the aisle

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Travis Banton (American, 1894–1958). Evening dress, ca. 1934. Black silk charmeuse embroidered with gold and silver sequins. Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Anna May Wong, 1956

Anna May Wong in a publicity photograph for Limehouse Blues, 1934

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Oh I see... you think this has nothing to do with you? And you select, I don't know, that boho chic cowboy core getup for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you're different and alternative. But what you don't know is that that style is not truly bohemian, its not Western, its Native American. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that it was Southwestern tribes who originated the "Western" silver & turquoise jewelry, and the rug patterns used for horse saddles. And I think it was the Plains and Woodlands tribes wasnt it? Who beaded their tanned hide jackets with florals and fringed edges & beaded the brims of their hats & added Eagle feathers. And Soon Navajo Saddle blankets started appearing in four major saddlery catalogues, then filtered down through the runway, to the department stores, then trickled on down to the tragic internet trend where you no doubt fished it out of some White owned store. However, that fashion represents millions of dollars and countless styles appropriated traditional Indigenous fashion, and its sort of comical how you think you've made a choice that exempts you from a legacy of colonialism when in fact, you're wearing a fashion that was selected for you by the Native people of Turtle Island.

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Two Edwardian silk wedding or garden party dresses, 1905-1910. Augusta Auction

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Today’s fish thing are these fish ties!

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I just saw this on Pinterest and for some reason I really want it

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Imagine being cast in a Lady Gaga concert as Lady Gaga because Lady Gaga wants to do this to Lady Gaga

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Fight! Teresa!

◆ Outfits >>> https://lolitawardrobe.com/nikki-tomorrow-teresa-afternoon-tea-vintage-classic-lolita-op-dress-and-apron_p6758.html

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An ivory seal with a pair of bats China 19th/20th c.[1200x901]

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what i’ve been giving all summer:

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Donald Trump is not "orange" he is "gyaru" part of Japanese gal culture which inverts yamato nadeshiko beauty standards

Yeah I largely agree with this

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Please stay vanilla-phobic… it’s so lonely out here. I feel lost at sea 🥺

Once u try these you’ll be vanilla-flexible. Lol like sometimes a complex vanilla just hits I hate when it’s all sweet notes though. These make vanilla actually interesting

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in my midwestern white trash upbringing, femininity was seen as excess. Women were supposed to care about being attractive, but it was equally important that they do so in a way that made no demands of others, and kept them freely available to be useful. caring too much about your appearance wasted time, made you ornamental rather than instrumental in working a job, raising the kids, looking after your husband. It was never supposed to be wasteful of time or resources; it was unseemly for a woman to get into the mirror and give herself too much attention.

and I've always kind of treated femininity in that way. as an excess. a frivolity. I've always focused on what my mind can do since my body couldn't really do much of anything, strength or coordination wise. I thought that I was breaking out of the sexist patterns of my childhood because I was a so-called intellectual or whatever,but I was really just upholding that same fixation on justifying my own existence through my productive capacity to others. I've realized how much my avoidance of femininity has been about not ever thinking that I deserved to put time and attention into myself. to look in the mirror and fritter over what's there, until I liked what I saw. Even when I've admired style and beauty, thought putting hours into my presentation has seemed impossible to me. The one concession that I allowed myself was fashion, because once you've accumulated the items and figured out how to put them together, you can look good in a matter of minutes, over and over again. but maybe I really do want to do more than that. maybe there is something valuable to working against the belief that caring and doing something nice to boost ones confidence is evil or whatever.

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Avril Lavigne in 2003･ﾟﾟ･｡ᡣ𐭩

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Avril Lavigne in 2002 ･ﾟﾟ･｡☆

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Hello! I made a dress from scratch for the Renaissance Faire. It took me six months to make the chemise, hoop skirt, under skirt, over skirts, French knot embroidered bodice, crown and jewelry. I am very excited to wear it this year despite how serious I look in the photos!