kalizam

[kalizam]

about

Hi! I’m kalizam (she/they), this place mostly exists for me to store pictures related to my current fic project, Dark Beyond Stars. If that sounds interesting to you, you can find that here. If it does not, then this is not the place for you.

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Velvet Renaissance Italian Dress

La Compagnie du Costume

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Dinner Dress

c. 1909

by John Redfern

Victoria and Albert Museum

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Wedding dress, 1907

From the Musée Mode & Dentelle

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Earrings with pearls, emeralds, and sapphires, Byzantine, early 5th century AD

from Dumbarton Oaks

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Dress.

Date: 1860

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• Graduation Dress.

Date: ca. 1897-1899

Medium: Silk, chiffon, velvet trim.

~ This dress was worn by Mabel Slemons for her high school graduation in 1897 and again for her graduation from Ypsilanti Normal School in 1899.

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Evening dress Place of origin: United States Date: 1893 Medium: silk, wool, rhinestones

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Dinner dress 1909

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Gown of shot blue/pink taffeta and 18th century inspired machine lace, with three-dimensional wired embroidery, 1909-1912

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Gold and pearl ring, Roman, 2nd-4th century AD

from the Thorvaldsens Museum, Denmark

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Coat, 1894

From the Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection at the University of New Hampshire

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Dress

c.1850

Made of Chinese patterned silk, this dress uses an export textile in a Western garment. Arguably, Asian textiles were associated in the Western mind as much with private leisure as with ceremony. Many Eastern textiles entered Western dress first as intimate boudoir and other at-home garments such as robes and banyans, suggesting the qualities of exoticism and erotic mystery associated with far-off lands. The selvage at the back waist reveals Chinese characters, indicating the textile’s manufacture, and the flaring sleeves are what the West calls the pagoda style.

The MET

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• Ensemble.

Design House: Duval & Eagan, Robes

Date: 1887–1891

Medium: Silk, beads, metal

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High Jewelry Colored Gemstone Tiara and Earrings, "The Bouquet" Which Belonged To Catherine The Great Of Russia, Circa Late 18th Century, The Diamond Fund, Moscow Kremlin

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Gold pendant with onyx cameo of a boar, Roman, 2nd century AD

from The Michael C. Carlos Museum

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Robe à la Polonaise, 1865–75, American. The Met Museum.