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the-almost-fashion-historian

dinner dress, 1887 by White Howard & Co.

this dress is made of black silk

this dress can be found in: the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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frostedmagnolias

Dress

c. 1879

Satin, trimmed with applied beading, chenille tassels, needle lace, lined with cotton, whaleboned

England

Victoria and Albert Museum

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charnel-grounds

Tyler Pennington, “A Dark Night on Cemetery Hil”

acrylic on illustration board, 2026

girlwhodoeskratom

Yasmeen Ghauri @ Claude Montana Spring/Summer, 1996 Ready-to-Wear

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lookingbackatfashionhistory

• Evening Cape.

Date: 1894

Place of origin: United States

Medium: Silk

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velvet-jellyfish

Looking for disability crafts I can do sitting in bed, so I’m channeling my inner grandma. Richelieu cutwork doily from a pattern I drew myself. Here is a link if anyone wants it!

fallout-lou-begas

Next month I finally start my overnight shift at the lab and while I'm not sure how easily I'll adjust to becoming fully nocturnal, and not sure if I'll want to remain on night shift forever, I do think it's funny that my trainers so far have been gassing me up as a potential overnight supervisor if I can stick it out, and not just because I'm basically a natural at everything they're showing me but also because it will be a really funny bit for them to turn future new hires over to the pale and ethereally beautiful overnight supervisor named Carmilla who looks much younger than she actually is and works with the lab's blood samples. imagine being a new hire at a big empty overnight laboratory and your supe Carmilla adds you to her team slack channel and it's called #thralls

fashionsfromhistory

Wedding Dress

1882

Cincinnati Art Museum

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history-of-fashion

ab. 1860 Silk dress (skirt and bodice) (Hungary)

(Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest)

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thenighteternal

blockbustervideos

Van Helsing (2004)

frostedmagnolias

Blue Silk Dress with Chiffon

1900s

Sörmland Museum

frostedmagnolias

I have seen some people in the tags confused about the color! Silk is subject to fading over time just as many other fabrics.

People have pointed out that it is "green", and yes it does appear that way! Yet if you look at the collar, it looks closer to blue, however still can come off as looking a greenish color.

What also makes it appear more green is due to the chiffon color also possibly fading which I can only assume was more white before.

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frodo-of-the-nine-fingers

my actual vampire hot take is that if you're going to be a 'vegetarian' vampire (a vampire that only drinks the blood of animals) you MUST have hunter education. i'm so sick of people being like oh well predator animals are mean and scary because they kill cute 'harmless' animals like NO they're crucial for the environment and if you're going to hunt animals for blood you still need to stick to regular people hunting guidelines and only hunt things that are in season and abide by your areas bag limits

moral-autism

vampire that did a detailed study about whether vampires can get prion diseases and concluded they can't and preferentially hunts animals with chronic wasting disease. and then incinerates the corpses.