Stained Apron

dancing herd of the queer silhouettes // Also @org-ou-la-lune and @french-noeud

[msmarymillspaulos]

The Knitters

Jacqueline Marval (1866-1932)

French Artist

[darkhistory222]

A shoe doll that belonged to a child in the slums of London, c 1905. It was found in an Edwardian London slum, made from the heel of a man’s shoe, a black sock and some scraps of household fabric. It’s now in The Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh, Scotland.

[mitchipedia]

1903 Mugshot Of Bertha Liebbeke, who would approach rich men in crowds, pretend to faint in their arms, then relieve them of their valuables in their pockets.

She does not look the least bit remorseful.

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Alistair K. Macdonald - A walk in the winter sunset (1904)

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Evariste De Buck - The sirene (1918)

[hersadexistence]

Niji ni Mukatte, Tadanari Okamoto, 1977

[madamelesfressange]

                               Atelier de Lesfressange (Series XI)

1. Hilda Rix Nicholas - La robe Chinoise (The Chinese dress) 1913 

2. Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen’ (detail), 1864 - James McNeill Whistler 

3. “Girl In Silver Kimono” by George Hendrik Bretner (1857-1923)

4. Georg Hendrik Breitner (Dutch, 1857-1923)  The Red Kimono 

5. Jean-François Verhas, The Japanese Kimono

6. “La Japonaise a Paris”, 1886, by Madeleine Jeanne Lemaire (French, 1845-1928 

7. Girl in a Japanese Kimono by William Merritt Chase - Hand Painted Oil Painting

8. La Princesse du Pays de la Porcelaine Whistler, James Abbott McNeill 

9. Violet Oakley, Lady with a Fan

10. Gustave Courtois. Etude de jeune fille, study, Young Woman in Kimono. Paris, 1890

[thegreatlearning]

Garment by Janet Lipkin

[feelbadallthetime]

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer La Femme à la Médaille ou Mystére 1896

[simena]

Ernst von Liphart (detail)

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William Brymner - La Femme au métier (1895)

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Franciszek Żmurko - Nubian (1884)

[vintagenorway]

English girl carries today’s salmon catch home

Norway, 1910s

[distantvoices]

Winny Nzeyimana by Dion Bal for Schön Switzerland Issue 1

[oldpaintings]

The Welcome by Briton Rivière (English, 1840–1920)

[juliastreou]

Taking a short break from writing in order to weave a large shoulder bag with local raw wool and copper wire. For process clips do take a look at my Instagram Stories 

[beautiful-basque-country]

In certain areas of Nafarroa, women used to wear two-layered skirts, and would use the upper one to cover their head and torso in case of rain or snow.

[beautiful-basque-country]

Here are some old photos of actual Navarrese women wearing this:

They were called unaiak and they were cow shepherds.

Pic sources: 1, 2