Steampunk Treasures

Abigail Antares in Melbourne Australia

[steam-on-steampunk]

Cthulhu 2, The End of the World, The Last Human,

by karichristensen

~Steampunk Love •❀• by Airship Commander HG Havisham

[nataliegerthofer]

.Victorian sisters

[waddiwasi7]

[unikam-sensu]

[steampunk-treasures]

Beautiful.

[kristacagg]

Happy New Year from a cat on a bike. A CAT! On a BIKE!

[facesofthevictorianera]

1870s-80s

[harvestheart]

Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta Born in 1843, Sara Forbes was raised as Queen Victoria’s goddaughter after being presented to the queen as a gift from King Ghezo of Dahomey.

[victoriansolstice]

A properly dressed Victorian gentleman.

[tacerror]

Japanese officers with an unidentified British cavalry officer, 1894.

[fiftyshadesofginger]

[tacerror]

British Officers, 1st Madras Light Cavalry, 1900.

[dama-iz-fikcije]

Needlebook book - embossed paper with portrait pockets made to hold packages of needles, English from the 1870s. These were lovely tokens and were favourite gifts during the Victorian era.

[tacerror]

Various illustrations of firearms, artillery, and ammunition from an 1880s Austro-Hungarian military book.

[tiny-librarian]

Death Becomes Her - A Century of Mourning Attire

This Costume Institute exhibition will explore the aesthetic development and cultural implications of mourning fashions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Approximately thirty ensembles, many of which are being exhibited for the first time, will reveal the impact of high-fashion standards on the sartorial dictates of bereavement rituals as they evolved over a century.

The thematic exhibition will be organized chronologically and feature mourning dress from 1815 to 1915, primarily from The Costume Institute’s collection, including mourning gowns worn by Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra. The calendar of bereavement’s evolution and cultural implications will be illuminated through women’s clothing and accessories, showing the progression of appropriate fabrics from mourning crape to corded silks, and the later introduction of color with shades of gray and mauve.

The Anna Wintour Costume Center’s Carl and Iris Barrel Apfel Gallery will orient visitors to the exhibition with fashion plates, jewelry, and accessories. The main Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery will illustrate the evolution of mourning wear through high fashion silhouettes. Examples of restrained simplicity will be shown alongside those with ostentatious ornamentation. The predominantly black clothes will be set off against a stark white background and amplified with historic photographs and daguerreotypes.

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[vintageeveryday]

Victorian era exercise machine.

[hoopskirtsociety]

Victorian corset

[steampunk-treasures]

Such lace!

[hoopskirtsociety]

House of Worth 1879