historic fashion

images, such as images of someone who made an impact in the fashion world, clothing from different time periods, styles of clothing and a brief history of them by a girl with no experience in fashion or history but a great interest in both. some info may be wrong, I check with as many sources as possible before posting, though. also, as I have said, I have no experience. :)

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Portrait of a girl in historical costume (Scandinavian suit). Hardboard, acrylic relief, tempera.

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Ball Gown

1866

The Kyoto Costume Institute

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Elaine Stewart

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Leslie Burke (played by AnnaSophia Robb) is one of the main characters of the 2007 film Bridge to Terabithia based off of the novel of the same name. Leslie's clothes are outrageous and colorful, although in the novel she was specified to wear clothing that looked like that of a boy. The change in her style is primarily because of the time alteration between the novel and the film. 

I know she can't really be counted as a fashion icon, although I still wanted to post a photo of her as she is my favourite actress and I just saw her new film Soul Surfer today. :)  

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Emma Roberts posing as Audrey Hepburn - “She was so simply beautiful. And she loved charity work, something even more beautiful about her.”

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raaah, I hate being busy. I'm just going to post images without any text for a little while. :) 

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Any ideas for fashion icons to post about (sorry, I've been really busy and want to know who you want to read about)?

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wow, we just got over double the followers as before in less than two days! is there any reason for this? thanks everybody! <3

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The width and heights of corsets changed very much in the late 19th century and early 20th century. 

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Did you know that in the 1800's Queen Victoria banished lipstick and had deemed it only acceptable for prostitutes? 

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Dinner dress ca. 1880 via The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art