Living Darling

The Darling Sisters, Darla and Blossom, owners of Darling Central Boutique - on charm, vintage lifestyle and all things Darling.

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Peplos

Mariano Fortuny, 1930

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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A female driver of the London Ambulance Service. WWI.

© IWM (Q 30355), © IWM (Q 30356).

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Canadian nurses

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Canadian ambulance nurse

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Cover of the rare edition of Vogue, May 1918

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Lee Miller’s Stunning Images of Women During World War II

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‘Die Griechische Kunst II (Pallas Athene)’ or also ‘Greek Art II (Pallas Athene)’ by Gustav Klimt. Art Nouveau detail on the staircase of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.

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A woman sits atop a pile of rubble and has a cup of tea after a Luftwaffe strike during the Blitz. London, England. 1941.

via reddit

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1 - Kusakabe Kimbei, Japanese Woman in Winter Costume with Child, 1870s.

2 - Tamamura Kozaburo, A Girl Carrying Child on Back, 1880s.

3 - Kusakabe Kimbei, Girls at Home, 1880s.

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Huge thanks to @thenib for having me make this comic! If Tumblr’s resizing makes parts illegible, you can also read the nicer original version over on The Nib’s website: “Fatness, Femininity, and the Media We Deserve”

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I love this comic SO MUCH. This person is my friend irl and she’s every bit as wonderful as she seems like she would be from this comic :D

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Women who are beyond done with all of this shit.

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When I look at this I feel like it should be something from 100 years ago but this is really going on right now

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Berlin,1928 at a polo tournament. by kay Iacunato

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Ruth St. Denis, The Greek Veil Dance c. 1920

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Ernestine “Tiny” Davis and Willie Mae “Rabbit” Wong, members of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, in Europe on the USO Tour in the 1940s. There were several lesbians in the band, including Tiny Davis (no mention of Wong as lesbian) but love this pic so much! Tiny on trumpet, Rabbit on baritone sax ✨ #lesbianculture #internationalsweetheartsofshythm #qpoc #blacklesbians #tinydavis

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Maria Salvador, 1915 by Hemeroteca Digital | Digital library of old magazines and old newspapers | Portugal

<br /><i>Via Flickr:</i> <br />Retrato da tenista Maria Salvador, 1915

in: Ilustração Portuguesa, 2.ª série, n.º 491, 19 de Julho de 1915.

link revista / magazine: hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/OBRAS/IlustracaoPort/Ilust…

link página / page: hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/OBRAS/IlustracaoPort/1915/…

Portuguese tennis player Maria Salvador.