kaileakes reblogged your photoset and added:
This gives me life all kinds of love!! I wish it were some POC women in the mix as well, but I still love it. (Posted it before, doing it again) - K.L.
I thought the same thing!!!!! I have a masterpost of Women Warriors (some in military jackets) from my posts in 2013 here, and here I have another long post on "Fancy Ladies" of Color from the 1500s (ish)!
Portrait of a Young Woman, Switzerland. c 1800
Fanny Eaton, Victorian Pre-Raphaelite Model and Muse
Portrait of a Young Black Woman, 1890s
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; The Black Countess, 1881
Dido Elizabeth Belle, Scottish Aristocrat
Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies, Goddaughter to Queen Victoria:
Xiang Fei in European Armor (1700s):