Take no heed of her... She reads a lot of books.

Can't seem to choose between fandoms, vintage goodness and beautiful stuff. Bear with me.

[takashiyasui]

Asakusa in the morning

[te5seract]

#1 & #2 by Joanna Kitchener

[georgianadesign]

http://kitchenerphoto.tumblr.com

[realoscarisaac]

[vintagecatfaces-blog]

[mrgaretcarter]

“Why do we have to be married? or not married? Why can’t we do what the hell we like? Men can. They can sleep with woman without getting a name for themselves, they can have careers. Well, I am going to do exactly what I like and to hell with the rest of them.”

[undr]

Getty Images. Leicester Square. London. 1938

[domhnall-tonal]

[jeanqrey]

Fireball the son of a bitch.

[romandesotomayor]

FragileThings, Josephine Cardin

[red-lipstick]

[thegolddig]

[clawmarks]

Astronomy - Jean Pierre Rambosson - 1875 - via Internet Archive

[femme-de-lettres]

Large (Clark Art Museum)

Harry Wilson Watrous painted this, The Chatterers, in 1913.

The Metropolitan Museum writes of Watrous, “About 1905 the artist’s eyesight began to fail, and he shifted from exquisitely rendered, tiny genre scenes recalling seventeenth-century Dutch paintings to larger canvases containing idealized female figures.”

There certainly is something ideal in the work, with the well-dressed woman gazing at a crow, apparently sitting up from where she has been reclining on a bench.

There is also something slightly surreal, however, to the odd unity of the scene: birds of all sorts fly hither and thither across the wallpaper while a woman in black, iridescent black feathers in her hair and on her shoulder, gazes calmly at a crow that (one would expect) better belongs outdoors.

[just-art5]

Caspar David Friedrich - Moonrise over the Sea, 1822 (details)

[fashion-runways]

HAMDA AL FAHIM Couture Spring/Summer 2015

[sydneyflapper]

Tamsin and Emma model 1920s dresses from my collection - a filet lace dress over a slip trimmed with Irish lace, and a robe de style that was probably a wedding dress.  We had tremendous fun with these - there are more photos to come, including 1930s evening wear and 1920s flapper looks. 

[siminiblocker]

Night.