Miss Starry Eyed

If you are sending me messages to ask for money unsolicited, I am absolutely going to flag you as spam and block you. Please, please stop. I am interested in researching the strange, ultra girly, hypocritical, controversial, world of Aristasia, and I post my findings on Tellurian-in-Aristasia. I would personally like to learn more about Filianism as well. On this blog I just post aesthetic things I like or things I am interested in, you know, the usual main blog fare.

[ancientrome]

Glass plaque with sphinx. Roman 1st century CE.

[themidcenturyscene]

Cadum Toilet Soap 1958

[thepopculturearchivist]

MOVING PICTURE WORLD, June 12, 1926. Paramount reused the title for a 1941 Dorothy Lamour vehicle exploring that star's association with sarongs, but the later film's plot apparently bears no resemblance to that of this lost feature.

[the1920sinpictures]

June, 1916 "Good Housekeeping" magazine cover, art by Coles Phillips. From Everything Victorian and Edwardian, FB.

[hildegardavon]

Gustave Moreau, 1826-1898

Cléopâtre, assise, demi nue, de face sur un trône très élevé, n/d, aquarelle et rehauts de gouache, 39.5x25 cm

© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) Inv. RF27900

[naldibutnice]

Japanese magazine advertisement for Lady of the Night (1926)

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 24, 12 juin 1910, Paris. Robe en soie Liberty bleu lumière voilée d'une tunique en tulle blanc brodé; grand manteau en satin orné de motifs brodés en soie bleue. (Porté par Mlle Frémont) Doc. phot. Félix. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

[haikara-nippon]

Japanese Red Cross nurse (2 of 2)

Red Cross nurses were a symbol of modernity and of Japan’s commitment to humanitarian ideals during the Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905). Postcards reflected this by updating the age old tradition of Bijin-e (pictures of beautiful women) (x)

1905

[nocnitsa]

[detroitlib]

View of two women baseball players participating in baseball game; one player holds baseball overhead while tagging the second player on base. Spectators stand in background. Printed on front: "Blonde and brunette beauties as ball-players. A bevy of pretty girls play a game of base-ball at the Ladies' Athletic Grounds in New York City." Illustrated American Life, v. 1, no. 33. 1879-05-24.

Ernie Harwell Sports Collection, Detroit Public Library

[thedeadleafs]

Tarrying with reluctant feet, where débutantes and modistes meet

Paul Thompson

New York Tribune, Mar. 25, 1917

[mudwerks]

[ubu507]

wetkitty:

turnofthecentury:

mudwerks:Beautiful Century: Leon Bakst, Ida Rubinstein as Cleopatre, 1909

[rosieandthemoon]

Casa Rusca in Barcelona {via}

[the-cinder-fields]

Koson Ohara, Roaring Tiger, Crescent Moon, c1920-30’s

[heaveninawildflower]

'Little Red Riding Hood' taken from 'Fairy-Gold': a book of old English fairy tales, chosen by Ernest Rhys, illustrated by Herbert Cole.

Published by J. M. Dent & Co., 1906.

From the British Library archive.

[heaveninawildflower]

Wallpaper (circa 1939) by Gilbert Sackerman (American, active circa 1935).

Watercolour, graphite, and gouache on paperboard.

National Gallery of Art.

[classicalcanvas]

Jane de Glehn in a Gondola (1904) by John Singer Sargent