Le Moniteur de la Mode, 1890

excessive reading has destroyed my perception of romance cuz wtf is “i really like you” after i’ve just read “I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.”

Gold-embroidered silk velvet and satin court ensemble

Russian, late 19th century

The sartorial hierarchy for ladies at the Russian court reached especially strict and stringent heights in the last decades of the nineteenth century, when color and length of train were dictated by rank and proximity to the Empress(es). One of the finest court dresses to have come on the market, this rare, complete imperial court ensemble of blue silk velvet must have, in accordance with its hue, been worn by a Grand Duchess. The ensemble is elaborately embroidered in gold metallic thread, consisting of a boned bodice with pointed waist and long, open hanging sleeves; blue velvet skirt continuing into a nine-foot train; and a plastron and underskirt of white silk satin embroidered in gold metallic thread.

A related court dress worn by the Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna is in the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Preserve.              

Cora Ginsburg                

One Dress a Day Challenge

May: Purple Redux

The Gilded Age (s1e9, "Let the Tournament Begin") / Taissa Farmiga as Gladys Russell

From the same scene as Agnes' deep purple evening gown, here's Gladys in a charming lavender dress that looks straight out of an impressionist painting. As is appropriate for a young girl, this dress is much lighter, less ornate, and altogether fluffier. The bodice and overskirt have subtle embroidered designs in silver.

I really like her hair ornament! It looks like it may have amethysts in the center of the floral shapes, to match the gown.

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

Late-nineteenth-century watercolor portraits of indigenous North-African men, by Spanish painter Josep Tapiró i Baró (1836-1913).

Two-piece silk evening gown

c. 1865-1869

pink and white silk brocade evening gown made in Paris, France in the 1860s

Minnesota Historical Society

Gentlemen’s Regency Era Portraits

A Roman Lady (1858) by Frederic Leighton

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Schloss Drachenburg, Königswinter, Germany,

Photo by @world_walkerz

Y’all look at this set of Napoleonic playing cards I found by Philipp Otto Runge, early 19th century.

They depict figures from the Napoleonic era including famous military figures and women wearing really pretty empire style.

The first one is supposed to be Murat.

Source: Hamburger Kunsthalle

Revue de la Mode, 1872

Horse Handle Lapis Lazuli Dagger khanjar,

Persian, 19th Century CE.

The Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait

Victorian Christmas at Tyntesfield 🎄

One Dress a Day Challenge

January: Red Redux

The Age of Innocence / Michelle Pfeiffer as Countess Ellen Olenska

One of the most iconic red dresses in movies! I love the beaded details on the bodice, which are hidden by the fan in many pictures. I also like the contrast between the deep red skirt and the brighter color of the bodice, which also trails over the bustle.

Costumes for this movie were designed by Gabriella Pescucci.

Prague, Czech Republic 

Photo by momentsofgregory