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inspo & musing blog for period stuffs. est september 2017

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DOMINIQUE DAVENPORT as SISI SISI ( 2021 - )

[greengableslover]

A day or two before the intended elopement, I joined them unexpectedly. Unable to support the idea of grieving a brother whom she looked up to almost as a father, she acknowledged the whole plan to me at once. You may imagine what I felt and how I acted. Mr. Wickham left the place immediately.

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Emma, you should not make matches, or foretell things.

— EMMA. 2020 | dir. AUTUMN DE WILDE, cinematography by CHRISTOPHER BLAUVELT

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AUDREY HEPBURN as ELIZA DOOLITTLE MY FAIR LADY (1964) dir. George Cukor

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“December moon, cool, silver, inside glamour and powerful magic,”

— Sarojini Patayat, from “Cool Silver December Moon,” written c. 2013

[thejingshi]

Marie Antoinette (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola

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Emma’s white pelisse worn with a black hat with feathers and a green bow (requested by anonymous).

EMMA. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde Costume design by Alexandra Byrne.

[missguthrievane]

you don’t have to choose between fire and ice (insp.)

[misandriste]

Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) ✧ dir. Francis Ford Coppola

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LILY JAMES as LINDA RADLETT in PURSUIT OF LOVE (2021)

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Lady Crane’s blue dress (requested by anonymous) Sleepy Hollow (1999) dir.Tim Burton

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“There’s loads I’ll need explained, but let’s just be alive for a while”
  Penance and Amalia in The Nevers S01E02: Exposure

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“There was apparently nothing striking either in [Kitty’s] dress or her attitude. But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light on all round her.” Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (1877)

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Holliday Grainger as Lucrezia Borgia in The Borgias 1.05 “The Borgias in Love “

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James Norton as Hugo Swann in The Nevers ↪ 1.01: pilot

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“There was apparently nothing striking either in [Kitty’s] dress or her attitude. But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light on all round her.” Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (1877)

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CLAIRE FOY in GOING POSTAL (2010)