Fashion PhD Insanity

Some quotes (not only about clothes)

[kardhen]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4UPYjEBD5Q)

[last-seeker]

C'est la faute de la fatalité ! 

[eideticfields]

Oldie Remix: Self as Mme Bovary

  “She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.”  -Gustave Flaubert

[literalmovies]

Madame Bovary

Bovary joins Delores, Mulva, Loreola, Celeste, Hest and Gipple in a support group for women with names that rhyme with a part of the female anatomy.

[the28thfish-blog-blog]

Bovary Dress

How many of you love the Bovary Dress from Anthropologie? Didn’t get a chance to buy it before it sold out? I have one that is brand new with tags selling on Ebay. Mine is a size 2 and is unfortunately the wrong size for me, which is why I am selling it. I eyed this dress for a long time in the store and couldn’t get over how beautiful the shimmer paisley pattern was. 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/270888914159?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_1056wt_1270

[ni-queue-ni-tete]

[lauramcphee]

Emma Bovary (via chasingthecrayon)

[hubertmarsten]

Scandal in the Classics

[kardhen]

Thorma Embroider 1890s

[kardhen]

Rippl Embroidering Women

[kardhen]

Le Ricamatrici by Adriano Cecioni 1866

[kardhen]

Herbert James Draper, The Embroiderers

[kardhen]

Kersting - Die Stickerin 1817

[kardhen]

Paul Gauguin, Mette Gauguin Alternative title: La Brodeuse 1878

[kardhen]

Henri Fantin-Latour - The Embroiderers (Les Brodeuses)

[kardhen]

Georges Seurat Brodeuse 1881

[morosespice-deactivated20221116]

From Costume and Fashion: A Concise History.

James Laver, the twentieth century’s leading authority in Britain on the history of costume and fashion, was Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings and of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 1938 until 1959.

Laver...