Research and Inspiration

I'm a costume designer, artist, and vintage film and clothing fanatic. Professional blog at rapatoff.tumblr.com

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

Soviet radio optical observatory in Orgov Armenia finished in 1985

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Flags of the funeral procession "Memento Mori" (19th-20th centuries)

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

49 different seals used by artist Kawanabé Kyōsai to stamp his work over the course of his career from J. Conder's Paintings and studies by Kawanabé Kyōsai [1911].

Full text here.

[handweavers]

examples of deflected doubleweave (weaving technique)

sources, top to bottom l-r: plainweave on flickr, gist yarn, madelyn van der hoogt, margo selby, susan gilday, theloomybin

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Easter - art by J. C. Leyendecker (1928)

[sparklejamesysparkle]

"Two French Bakers" by Irving Penn, Paris, 1950.

[sparklejamesysparkle]

"𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧. 𝐈'𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐞." Remembering music legend George Michael... June 25th, 1963 - December 25th, 2016 ❤

Photos of George taken during the Faith World Tour in 1989.

[70sscifiart]

Happy Hanukkah from Jack Kirby!

[librar-y]

November 1941. Trinkets in migrant agricultural worker’s automobile. Wilder, Idaho. (x)

[rapatoffresearch]

……….I literally have that key and heart escutcheon brooch.

[meatsound]

rednote is the only good social media because its the only one that consistently shows me lambs from xinjiang in little hats

[meatsound]

more.

[rongzhi]

变脸 (Bianlian; "face changing") in Sichuan opera

[ratn]

holy shit

[the1920sinpictures]

September 2, 1927 American dancer Helen Wehrle in a butterfly costume for the Hermann Haller revue "When and Where?" at Berlin's Admiralplast Theatre. From Art Deco, Art Nouveau & 20th Century Decoratif Arts Group, FB.

[the1920sinpictures]

1928 Young men and their "jazz band". From America in the 1920s, FB.

[the1920sinpictures]

1925 Erte designed Alieen Pringle's gown in "The Mystic". From Art Deco, Avant Garde & Modernism, FB.

[the1920sinpictures]

1925 Georges Barbier illustration "Window with a View of the Sea". From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

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Going Away Dress of wool & silk worn by Elizabeth Holms-Kerr after her 1899 wedding to John Deans Hope.⁠⠀Made by Madame Hayward, 64 New Bond Street, London⁠⠀Glasgow Museums, E.1988.104.2

[my18thcenturysource]

The gasp I gasped.

Such a dramatically gorgeous choice for her first married woman dress.

I aspire to this level of drama in my everyday life.

[tweefiend]

hot girls feel a deep connection to lesbian cowboys