I Reblog The Old Stuff

Cool stuff from awhile ago. Have mercy I can’t do math. Sorry for focusing on Europe a lot, I also don't know what time to use as a cut off date for this blog, which century and such. I’m just a curious artist so don’t expect a scholar 😅

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Gown

c. 1914

Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Dress

c. 1962

by William Duborgh Jensen

The National Museum of Norway

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

Afternoon dress, c. 1895 by unknown designer

This dress is made of brown satin brocade and blue satin.

This dress was sold by: Augusta Auctions

[twirld]

“Oh, remember how short my time is”

Watchmaker: Isaac Penard The Met

[glavilio]

Auguste Jean Baptiste Roubille for Le Rire #20, June 20, 1903 (via umn.edu)

[thrumbolt]

[metmuseum]

One of the Four Heavenly Kings. 12th century. Credit line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/44839

[costumeloverz71]

Dress c.1812-15

[mylordshesacactus]

For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )

[mylordshesacactus]

"Delete all the nudes and sexts after a breakup or you're a piece of shit" has been the standard expectation since EIGHT. TEEN. EIGHTY. FIVE.

[mylordshesacactus]

"Men and women being friends with each other is literally normal. Don't be a controlling freak."

Anyway I was wrong the publishing date is actually 1882 so like.

[mylordshesacactus]

"If you have to abuse a child to keep order in your classroom then you're a bad teacher."

So like @ the modern Republican party, are the "traditional family values" in the fucking room with us right now--

[escuerzoresucitado]

opalized bones

[frostedmagnolias]

Robe de style

c. 1925-1926

by Jeanne Lanvin

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum

[archaicwonder]

Roman Faceted Glass Bracelets, 1st-3rd Century AD

[metmuseum]

Inlay for a plate in the form of a hare. ca. 7th century BCE. Credit line: Gift of Nasli Heeramaneck, 1964 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/325691

[transparentfossil]

.84" Fossil Pterosaur (Siroccopteryx) Tooth - Morocco

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Gown

c. 1914

Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation

[red-pearl-white-flower]

Love enduring through the ages

Print here

[memories-of-ancients]

Silver rhyton with kneeling bull, Central Asia (possibly Iran), 550-400 BC

from The Cincinnati Art Museum

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

Day dress, 1894-96 by unknown designer

This dress is made of silk and silk netting, with a silk velvet belt

This dress can be found in: FIDM Museum