hats and laces

fripperiesandfobs:

Victoire-Auguste-Antoinette, Princesse de Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Duchesse de Nemours

1840

Franz Xavier Winterhalter

It’s always hard to find Winterhalters to post, since everyone’s so familiar with his work.

(via my-ear-trumpet)

theniftyfifties:

1950’s Dior

(via latinamericana)

A Passing Storm, James Tissot, 1876

Is it just a passing storm?

Bad things happen and good things happen. I find no joy in anything, it feels like that the good is given in a gesture of mercy and generosity by some cruel cruel superior being as if it’s supposed to make up for the bad. It can’t though, it just stands there mocking me and my inability to be for once in my life grateful. Nothing is ever enough. It will never end and this perspective seems so tiring.

Downtown Abbey, 1910s. Need to see this urgently!

Not late 1910s (more like 1912-1913), but gorgeous nonetheless.

Movie still from Downtown Abbey.

My favourite yet, evening dress by the Callot Soeurs, 1915-16.

Corset, 1915-1917

Onto the second part of the request: late 1910s.

Evening dress, 1915-16.

Dramatic 30s’ backs.

Morning suits and hats, 1936-37

hannahwouldwearthis:

omgthatdress:

1930s purse via The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

there is a person. on this bag. hannah wants little figures of people on all of her bags. then she will name them and make them talk to each other.

Ways to wear a 1932-34 evening dress. Also, the best things about this decade were the exposed backs.

I know this dress is so overrated but really now… the draping! Enough said.

Lingerie, ca.1930s

The mythical griffin is incorporated in the drawnwork decoration. Griffins, a creature with characteristics of both the lion and eagle, were the guardians of treasure and the divine in legend. Designers were faced with a constant demand for novelty and sophistication that their wealthy clients expected, even in their underpinnings. The original owner of this lingerie set, Millicent Rogers, is known for her particular penchant to choose the most interesting and often unusual clothing and accessories, which as seen here, includes her lingerie.

“Oh beware of the griffin, the guardian of my treasure!”, she said batting her eyelashes.

Hilarious, really.