o dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet

a melancholic romantic in love with the past.

[odetopictorialism]

Louis Mante • Cléo de Mérode, 1895

[arcanewraith]

Theodore von Holst, The Wish, 1840

[flowersofmaldoror]

Frederick Hudson, Georgiana Houghton with Tommy Guppy and spirit, 1872, Collection of The College of Psychic Studies, London, UK.

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Dress

c. 1855

Crème silk and wool mixed gauze with floral print; triple-flounced skirt.

France

The Kyoto Costume Institute

[vintagefashionplates]

Children’s Clothing Circa 1880 by The Pragmatic Costumer

[costumeloverz71]

Dress, 1897-98

[beatricecenci]

Margaretha Roosenboom (Dutch, 1843-1896)

Stilleven met rozen

[7pleiades7]

Lilith, (Detail), (1887), by John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934), oil on canvas, 194 cm (76.3 in) x 104 cm (40.9 in), Atkinson Art Gallery and Library, England

[ephemeral-elegance]

Linen Gauze Skirt and Mantlet, ca. 1865-70

via Daguerre

[ephemeral-elegance]

Brussels Lace Parasol with Ivory Handle, ca. 1860s

via Vintage Textile

[vulturesouls]

Scene in Pleasant Valley, Maryland, October 1862

AIC

[7pleiades7]

Croquet Players (1871) by Charles-Édouard Boutibonne (Hungarian-born, French, 1816 – 1897), oil on wood panel, 50.8 cm (20 in) x 64.7 cm (25.5 in), Buffalo AKG Art Museum

[periodinteriors]

View from the House of Henry Briscoe Thomas, Baltimore, c. 1841, unknown artist, pen and India ink, gouache, and sgraffito on paper.

[odetopictorialism]

Emile Joachim Constant Puyo • Torse, 1895

[vulturesouls]

Portrait of a young woman named Hala Api Api with her hair in twists, Tonga, 1890.

British Museum

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

Promenade dress, c. 1869-72 by unknown designer

This dress is made of a very fine printed cotton.

This dress can be found in: Rijksmuseum

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Dress

c. 1850

Silk satin with silk and metallic-thread supplementary patterning and silk net with metallic-thread embroidery

LACMA