hats and laces

omgthatdress:

Hat ca. 1943 via The Meadow Brook Hall Historic Costume Collection

Squee.

Beachwear featured in LIFE Magazine, 1941.

“Venus” dress from the fall/winter 1949–1950 Christian Dior collection.

“Junon” dress from the fall/winter 1949–50 Christian Dior collection.

In 1949, dresses called “Venus” and “Junon,” or Hera to the Greeks, were among the most coveted of Dior’s designs. “Junon“‘s magnificent skirt of ombréed petals, like abstractions of peacock feathers without their “eyes,” obliquely references the bird associated with the Queen of the Olympians.

(Met Museum)

Submitted by alyssalerner

This Balenciaga ball gown from spring-summer 1948 was inspired by Marie Antoinette and her famous fashion sense.

historicalfashion:

*grabby hands at clothes and hair*