[atoubaa]

The Lijadu Sisters (Lagos, 1977) from “Lighting up Lagos: the stars of 1970s Nigerian rock music” - Photographer Unknown

[frostedmagnolias]

French evening dress

c. 1887-89

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[fashionsfromhistory]

Evening Dress

House of Drecoll

c.1890

The MET (Accession Number: C.I.50.105.19a, b)

[requiem-on-water]

"The Gloomy Trips" by Les Cyclopes, styled by Olivier Theyskens using his own designs (1997)

[fripperiesandfobs]

Doucet afternoon dress ca. 1904

From Les Arts Décoratifs

[frostedmagnolias]

c. 1908

evening dress

made of satin, silk embroidered with silver-gilt strip, coil, thread, spangles, pearls and diamantes, trimmed with velvet

Jays Ltd, V&A Museum

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[red-flower-red]

fragile structure of old wallpapers

[gent]

Nøkken by Theodor Kittelsen, 1904.

[psikonauti]

European bee-eater and hornet

Photographed by Jörg Stemmler

[sovietpostcards]

Horseback riders in a blooming apple orchard. Photo by Nikolai Zhiganov (1983).

[1five1two]

'Omen'. Emile Corsi. 1886.

[gazophylacium]

The Hypogeum, Hal Saflieni, Malta.  At the back of this room you can see what was an alter on which animals were sacrificed.

[ducissatenebrarum]

Panagia is the term for a particular type of icon of the Theotokos, wherein Mary is facing the viewer directly, usually depicted full length with her hands in the orans position, and with a medallion showing the image of Christ as a child in front of her chest.

[herpsandbirds]

Orange Oakleaf (Kallima inachus), family Nymphalidae, found in tropical South, SE, and East Asia

photograph by Peellden

[joeinct]

Everything #48, Photo by Anthony Hernandez, 2002-04

[joeinct]

Everything #54, Photo by Anthony Hernandez, 2002-04