Sphinxfeather

I love costuming, textile arts, history (esp. fashion history) and nature. There will be many reblogs of pretty dresses: you have been warned.

[frostedmagnolias]

Dress

c. 1805

French

Kent State University Museum

[bogleech]

Why are there just blobs of fake rubber meat that a bunch of unrelated microbes can build in the dirt but they've only ever been found in china and can't be classified any further than "biological objects"

[sphinxfeather]

[history-of-fashion]

1824 François-Joseph Kinson - Anna Pavlovna of Russia, queen consort of the Netherlands

(Royal Collections of the Netherlands)

[mzr-hsh]

Saj Issa - Crocodile Crown

[lacetulle]

Rami Kadi | Elementa

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[hanfugallery]

Chinese hanfu in the style of warring states period

[eshpur]

✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

[hype-queer-fixated]

[animentality]

[sartorialadventure]

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Pigeon Shoes; a cheaper version of Flying Shoes that occasionally get distracted by bread crumbs

[sartorialadventure]

Every once in awhile a blast from the past post goes mini-viral and I look at the notes like, Who reblogged this that it spread this way??? Why now???

But mostly I am reblogging to say that @randomitemdrop ’s tags win the internet:

[random-brushstrokes]

Paul Désiré Trouillebert (French, 1829–1900) - Avant le bal

[mysharona1987]

[byjove]

I never thought I would be siding with the pope’s involvement in politics and cheering him on. I will say that.

[byjove]

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

evening dress, 1902-03 by Lucie Monnay

this dress is made of silk, with embroidery and glass beads

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

[erinsvintageemporium]

On This Day: 10th June, 1825

Fashion plate 2325 from the Journal des Dames et des Modes, artist unknown.

Coeffure de l'invention de Mr. Plaisir. Robe de tulle a corsage de satin et draperies de tulle. Garniture en bouillons de tulle, rubans et pointes de satin.

[omgthatdress]

Okay so what are we all fantasy wearing to Taylor Swift's wedding?

For me, it can only be this dress:

Back in the good old days of 2010, when I was just starting this blog and scouring the internet for images of extant historical fashion, I saw this dress on antiquedress.com and I just fell in love. Really, this is the dress that made me fall head over heels in love with vintage fashion.

It showed up a few years later on 1stdibs.com, and I have no idea where it is now, other than I hope it is being cared for and loved.

When I was debating with myself whether or not to start a GLP-1 and thinking about being able to wear the kind of fashion I want, I thought about this dress A LOT (even if I'm still not able to fit into it in the end, it's the fantasy).

It's elegant, it's romantic, it's whimsical fantasy, it's everything.

WITH THIS TIARA:

Perfect for the Taylor Swift wedding, YES?!