#8 october

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Window shopping, October 8, 1954.

Photo: Vivian Maier via vivianmaier.com

[talkingpiffle]

Fierce bustle about wedding-dress—Worth's—period gown in stiff gold brocade, long sleeves, square neck, off-the-face head-dress, no jewels except my long ear-rings that belonged to great-aunt Delagardie. (N.B.—Publisher must have come well up to scratch on new book.)

–Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon, “Prothalamion,” 1937.

Image: "A 1930s brocade organza evening dress, of shot amethyst and gold, with square yoke neckline, a panelled bodice, long sleeves and a bias cut skirt with train." (x)

A tip of the gibus to @greenmirror for this spectacular gown!

[jockw]

Happy lesbian day 🫡🫶

[tv-moments]

Slow Horses

Season 5, “Tall Tales”

Director: Saul Metzstein

DoP: Danny Cohen

[greendayauthority]

Home Depot Center, Carson, CA, 8 October 2005

[wiiildflowerrr]

The Daily Sauce: 'CENTRAL WITNESSES CLAIM……

STORY SAUCE RATING 5/10 nearing blazing levels of Tapatio'

[dateinthelife]

8 October 2010

Google's first ever animated Google Doodle is a tribute to John Lennon, unveiled a day before what would have been his 70th birthday.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 8 October:

1822 – Birth in Dublin of Richard D’Alton Williams. He is educated at Carlow Academy and studies medicine at Saint Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin. He becomes a member of the Young Ireland movement and contributes poetry to The Nation under the pseudonym ‘Shamrock’. In 1848, he is tried for treason for articles he publishes in the Irish Tribune, but he is successfully defended by lawyer and fellow…

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