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Dior evening dress, 1955

From the Kyoto Costume Institute

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Day dress, 1891-1900. Jeanne Paquin.

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~ Jobs for Girls, Hazel Rawson Cades, 1930

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I catch a glimpse of myself on the television screen on the wall that’s airing my arrival live and feel gratified that I appear almost bored. Peeta Mellark, on the other hand, has obviously been crying and interestingly enough does not seem to be trying to cover it up. I immediately wonder if this will be his strategy in the Games. To appear weak and frightened, to reassure the other tributes that he is no competition at all, and then come out fighting. - "You know what my mother said to me when she came to say good-bye, as if to cheer me up, she says maybe District Twelve will finally have a winner. Then I realized, she didn’t mean me, she meant you!” bursts out Peeta. “Oh, she meant you,” I say with a wave of dismissal. “She said, ‘She’s a survivor, that one.’ She is,” says Peeta.

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Lanvin dress, 1909

From the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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1996 Wishbone Stickers (via: eBay)

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Riza hawkeye

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1895 Cotton Piqué Seaside Dress.

(Image via Museum at FIT and Mimi Matthews)

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I'm rewatching Sleeping Beauty for the first time since I was, like, four. I'm honestly surprised by how much I'm enjoying it.

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READ MY BOOKSHELF | the witch of blackbird pond by elizabeth george speare

“From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own. How often she would come back she had no way of foreseeing, nor could she know that never, in the months to come, would the Meadows break the promise they held for her at this moment, a promise of peace and quietness and of comfort for a troubled heart.”

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Evening dress made of pattern-woven light blue silk damask with motifs of lilies of the valley and leaves, decorated with wavy pleated silk borders, pearl borders and pearl embroidered flowers with large pearl pendants, 1860s.

Gothenburg City Museum

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March Update:

(1) Book for the Association Reading Challenge Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell

(1) Children's/Juvenile Reread The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones.

(1) YA Reread The Shadow of the Bear by Regina Doman.

(1) Fiction Reread The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond by G. K. Chesterton

(1) Classics Reread Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

(1) French Language Book

(1) WWII Book Into the Forest by Rebecca Frankel

(1) Charles Dickens Book Nicholas Nickleby

(1) Tolkien History Book The War of the Jewels

(1) Non-fiction Book off the To-Read Shelf The Little Guide to Music Appreciation by Helen L. Kaufmann

(1) Fiction Book off the To-Read Shelf Behind Every Man: The Nancy Cooper Russell Story by Joan Stauffer

(1) Non-fiction Book off the Library To-Read Shelf Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time by Helen Molesworth (on the to-read shelf ~0.5 years)

(1) Fiction Book off the Library To-Read Shelf The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass (officially on the to-read shelf ~0.17 years; unofficially, ~0.5 years)

(1) E-book

(1) Audiobook

Total: 12/15

Tea and Ink Society

January: A classic you discover in a used bookstore thrift store - Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell October February: A Jane Austen novel - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen March: A classic about immigrants or pioneers - I'm counting Croatan by Mary Johnston

2025 Book List

(1) Book for the Association Reading Challenge

(1) Children's/Juvenile Reread

(1) YA Reread

(1) Fiction Reread

(1) Classics Reread

(1) French Language Book

(1) WWII Book

(1) Charles Dickens Book

(1) Tolkien History Book

(1) Non-fiction Book off the To-Read Shelf

(1) Fiction Book off the To-Read Shelf

(1) Non-fiction Book off the Library To-Read Shelf

(1) Fiction Book off the Library To-Read Shelf

(1) E-book

(1) Audiobook

I'm also contemplating doing some variant on the Tea and Ink Society 2025 reading challenge after being sent it as there could be some overlap and it would also align with some of my general reading goals.

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Dress ca. 1912

From the John Bright Historic Costume Collection

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A lamé and beaded evening dress

c. 1910-1911

Label: Chas. H. Fox London

Kerry Taylor Auctions

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When I said I was going to draw them in the style of Helen Oxenbury… I actually meant that. 😂

Check out my watercolour brushes for Procreate: https://jennydolfenart.gumroad.com

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Dress, mid-19th century

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Worth evening dress, 1893-94

From Les Arts Décoratifs