Threadbare Venus

The Strange, the Crazy, the Historical, the Beautiful: a story of clothing told through art / photography / the garments themselves

[yourrescuemission]

[confusedvillager]

gays are too much. i hate us

[andre-30008]

this reporter had absolutely no clue how to respond to any of that 😂

[lmfaoking]

LMFAOOOO

[enchantedbook]

Advertisement for a wallpaper company (Charpentier-Deny) - artist :  Louis Théophile Hingre, 1890

[being-john-malkobitch]

Every book in the History of Literature summed up in a single sentence

[pintoras]

Gerda Wegener (Danish, 1886 - 1940): Costumes Parisiens. Robe à retroussis (via Düsseldorfer Auktionshaus)

[loumargi]

Gerda Wegener Eva Heramb, 1934

[24hoursinthelifeofawoman]

Frida Kahlo by Gisèle Freund, 1950 

[threadbarevenus-blog]

“I see clothes as political...as a statement of subversive thinking.”

from My Skirt’s in Your Fucking Room!, Jacqueline Fahey (1978-9).  quote from Fahey, 2013

[threadbarevenus-blog]

close up from self-portrait Fraser sees me, I see myself, Jacqueline Fahey (1975). Auckland, New Zealand. Oil on hardboard

[life]

From the May 25, 1953 fashion feature: “Playclothes for the Under-10 Group. America’s 36 Million Kids Like Them Loud And Now Can Get Them That Way.” This image ran with the following caption: “MUSCLEMEN on beach in sailcloth boxer shorts wear crew hats that repeat the primary colors of stripes. Shorts are $1.79 each and the hats cost $1.39 (Tam O'Shanter).” (Nina Leen—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #FashionFriday #1950s #NinaLeen

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Disappointment: Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt  (1882) Julius Le Blanc Stewart (American, 1855-1919)

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Portrait of Mrs. Francis Stanton Blake (1908). oil on canvas. Julius Le Blanc Stewart (American, 1855-1919)

[medievalpoc]

Anonymous German Artist

Visitation including Saint Maurice and the donor

Germany (c. 1520)

Tempera on Wood. Arno von Treskow triptych, Central Panel.

Magdeburg Dom., (St. Maurice and St. Catherine). North transept.

The Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

[life]

From the Sept. 4, 1970 cover story: WOMEN ARISE: The Revolution That Will Affect Everyone. (Fifty Years ago women got the vote). This image opened the story - “On the march for what they still haven’t got, Women Arise. In the largest and most enthusiastic parade in the country, New York’s protesters set off down Fifth Avenue.” (John Olson—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth

[ancientpeoples]

Standing Shakyamuni, 150-200 AD

Pakistan, probably Takht-i-Bahi, Gandhara style

Schist, Overall: h. 119.70 cm (47 1/8 inches)

Combining elements from both the Greco-Roman and Indian worlds, the artists of Gandhara created a new vision of the Buddha during the period of high contact between the two regions. They were among the first to show the Buddha with a placid and introspective expression, thick wavy hair, and clothed in a heavy, toga-like monk’s robe. They retained the local preference for soft volumetric forms of the body, noticeable beneath the garment as it pulls and hangs in naturalistic pleat lines over the figure.

Source: Cleveland Museum of Art

[the60sbazaar]

The Rolling Stones

[pattismithandrobertmapplethorpe]

Patti Smith 1977

[ancientpeoples]

Mother Goddess,  (31 x 9 inches)

Rajasthan, Northwestern India, Gupta Period, 5th-6th Century

Sets of seven or eight mother goddesses were installed in side chambers near the entrance to Hindu temples. From one of the most naturalistic and charming sets, this mother attentively grasps the wrist of her toddler to gently guide him, while smiling lovingly and patiently at him. The simplicity of garments and ornament is characteristic of sculpture of the 5th and 6th centuries, and the naturalistic qualities of this work from northwestern India suggest connections with the Greco-Roman styles of Gandhara, in present-day Pakistan.

Source: Cleveland Museum of Art