To reach the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond

my personal blog for things I Iove: history, art, fashion, films, and photography. Occasionally I will post from my own collection

[the1920sinpictures]

1923 Wedding gown medieval style. This reminds me of the wedding dress of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in her 1923 marriage to the Duke of York. Pinterest.

[frostedmagnolias]

Ball Gown

c. 1898-1900

by Doucet

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Joseph Crawhall (British, 1861–1913), "The Magpie"

[frostedmagnolias]

Chanel couture white lace gown

c. 1935

Augusta Auctions

[kayflapper]

Claire Windsor, photographed for ⁠"Vogue Magazine" 1922.

[kayflapper]

Mary Nolan, c. 1929.

[kayflapper]

Tallulah Bankhead, c. early 1920s.

[naldibutnice]

Last Days of May by Nell Brinkley, 1920

[kayflapper]

Helen Twelvetrees photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1931.

[antiqueanimals]

Lives of Game Animals, Volume 3. 1927. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.

Internet Archive

[byhsa]

[frostedmagnolias]

Day Dress

c. 1910

Glenbow Museum

[the1920sinpictures]

1920s "Bobbed Hair - It's the Upkeep"! From Pinterest.

[dachweiler]

by Feodor Rojankovsky; from Scaf le Phoque (Scaf the Seal), 1936

[the1920sinpictures]

1930 c. Table lamp of wrought iron and pressed molded glass by Paul Kiss, France. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

[velvetmasonry]

Tigers by Antoine-Louis Barye, c. 1850-69

[charnel-grounds]

Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski (1849–1915)

“Wolf,” oil on cardboard, 1880s, “A Pack of Wolves,” oil on canvas, 19th century, and “Lone wolf,” oil on canvas, 1910