Shades of Raquel

https://www.instagram.com/shadesofraquel/

[chocolatecakesandperioddrama]

new production shots from House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre

[jacqueslacan]

THINGS TO COME (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2016)

[allthingseurope]

Berlin, Germany (by Moises Gonzales)

[cannibalspicnic]

By the way I am 100% a Caroline Collingwood apologist. She has never done anything wrong ever. People just hate because she's sexy. I wouldn't wanna deal with her asshole kids either.

[effingcat]

Nothing funnier than the number of times Pump up the Jam is played on Cunk on Earth just completely out of context

[shadesofraquel]

@chocolatecakesandperioddrama

[nastasyafilippovnas]

timestamp roulette: ↳ 8 FEMMES (2002), dir. François Ozon

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[allthingseurope]

Hohenzollern Castle, Germany (by Andreas Streich)

[zocher]

Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau seen from Harder Kulm, Switzerland

[allthingseurope]

Bellagio, Italy (by Stefano Roverato)

[happyheidi]

Black cats ♡

via blackcattrails

[allthingseurope]

Schwerin, Germany 

[shadesofraquel]

@chocolatecakesandperioddrama how do you pronounce this again? 🤪😁

[chocolatecakesandperioddrama]

Listen to your Heart - a Lord Peter & Miss Vane video

24th September 2022: Happy 72nd Birthday to the lovely Miss Vane aka the fabulous Dame Harriet Walter

[allthingseurope]

Hamburg Harbour, Germany (by Marcus Lange)

[professorpski]

“The black frock fitted her like a glove. It was made with the small square yoke and long, close sleeves, softened by a wrist-frill falling nearly to the knuckles. It outlined her figure to the waist and fell full- skirted to the ground, with a suggestion of the medieval robe. Its dull surface effaced itself not outshining the dull gleam of the academic poplin.”

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Yes, I want this dress, an urge I often feel when reading of fashion in fiction.

This one was described in 1936 by Dorothy L. Sayers in her novel Gaudy Night, a book in which Sayers made clear that she believed a woman of sense knew how to dress appropriately for every occasion. The occasion here was Gaudy Night when the alums of the women’s college set at Oxford University in England came back for a celebration. Her heroine, Harriet Vane, herself a writer of mysteries wears the dress. The dress is not only quietly magnificent, Vane also knows just how to wear it with the academic robe, the “academic poplin” mentioned, which she must wear over the dress, a tradition of the college.

Vane has come back as an alum and ends up trying to solve two mysteries: who is harassing the women of the college with threats and vandalism? and should she marry Lord Peter Wimsey, the impossibly charming, erudite and wealthy investigator who save her from a murder conviction? The answer to the second question seems obvious to me–yes, go marry the man!– but Sayers takes just as long to explore the question of marriage for a woman with a professional career in 1936 as she does to uncover the mystery.

[levinson-mannion]

Reblog this to appreciate Cora Crawley. If you don't like it I will assume you don't appreciate Cora Crawley

[chocolatecakesandperioddrama]

be still my baxley heart

Raquel Cassidy and Kevin Doyle at the Downton sequel movie set, shipping baxley like we do (as seen on instagram)