Nova Aristasia

The world ended long ago, pettes.

[the1920sinpictures]

1927 c. Therese and Helene. From estellux, Pinterest.

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Edgar Degas - At the Milliners (1881)

[postcard-from-the-past]

Queens of the grape harvest festival in Bordeaux, Guyenne region of western France

French vintage postcard

[summertimenoir]

Joan Crawford in The Women (1939)

[gatabella]

Dolores del Rio, 1930s

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[naldibutnice]

Dixie Lee, c. 1930

[chic-a-gigot]

Les Modes parisiennes, no. 225, 20 juin 1847, Paris. Chapeau de Mme Peuer, r. Nve. St. Augustin, 4. Fleurs de Millery éléve de Battou, rue de Ménars, 12. Robes et mantelet de Mme Marie, r. de Hanovre, 5. fichu et lingerie de Mme Payan, r. Vivienne, 13. Passementire de Sorré Delisle, place de la Bourse, 31. Dentelles de Violard, rue de Choiseul, 2 bis. Bracelets de Darche, passage des Panoramas, 55. Soieries et Barége de la Maison des deux Pages, r. Vivienne, 11. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Comment from my five-year-old daughter while I was working on this plate: "Aw, they look like they're getting married."

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ J. J. Gould Jr., Lippincott's for June 1896

via digitalcommonwealth.org

[random-brushstrokes]

Gerda Wegener (Danish, 1886 - 1940) - The cigarette

[hellooldsmelly]

[typewriteraroony]

[gouged-doll]

damaged tintype of 2 women at a studio, circa 1880s

[naldibutnice]

Mary Pickford

[odetopictorialism]

Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraidari • Elizaveta Nicolska at the Acropolis, 1929

[gatabella]

Rita Hayworth, 1946

[wardengrill]

Want to buy some illusions? Slightly used, just like new. Such romantic illusions, and they're all about you. I sell them all for a penny, they make pretty souvenirs. Take my lovely illusions, some for laughs, some for tears. | Marlene Dietrich as Erika von Schluetow in A Foreign Affair (1948)