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I really want to reread and rewatch alias graces, I love that story with all my heart

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I’m getting one of my teeth extracted at 11:30 today! I’m so nervous :O SOS

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Raspberry silk bias cut gown

1930s

NYC

Augusta Auctions

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What’s my relationship status? Fully committed to my hot water bottle thanks for asking

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Hello

Hello! Hope you're okay :)

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Update! I managed to do a full page of A4 last night :O Though I'm now worrying that I have written too much, and I have MORE to add ahhhh ... I'll have to do some serious editing when I get to the end I think!

Not really used Tumblr in ages, but I am now back just so I can complain about how hard it is to write a personal statement for a postgraduate course :O I haven’t had to write one in almost 6 years ahhh

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Dress, Circa 1830

Silk embroidered with silk and metallic thread

Reconstructed waistband and lining

This dress shares many characteristics of the example shown as a Related Item – very full puffed sleeves, gathering across the bodice, a waistband defining a narrow waist, and a bell shaped skirt with a band of floral embroidery running around it. Placed on a ground of fine translucent organza rather than stout cotton, the embroidered band has been worked in polychrome silks and gilt thread rather than monochrome cotton, but both share a lively, linear design of small flowers and foliage. The metallic thread is also used for the gold spots covering the rest of the dress; now tarnished with age to appear darker, their original brightness would have produced a spectacular effect.

The waistband has been reconstructed with a silk ribbon. An 1830s portrait of Louisa Lamb of Jersey shows her wearing a similar diaphanous white dress embroidered with a band of coloured flowers around the skirt and on the belt, suggesting that this dress may also have had a matching floral belt or waistband.

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Source: The John Bright Collection https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca1efwEgEvl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Not really used Tumblr in ages, but I am now back just so I can complain about how hard it is to write a personal statement for a postgraduate course :O I haven’t had to write one in almost 6 years ahhh

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Do you believe in soulmates?

Yes/no

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Are you naturally a hugger?

Yes (and I hug people whether they want it or not)

Yes (but I refrain from hugging without consent)

No (but I like being hugged)

No (and I don’t like being hugged)

Other/Nuance

See results

(Please don’t hug people without consent though)

(Please don’t hug people without consent though)

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Discovered this show six years late

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fashionable friends

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The Wyndham Sisters, 1899 by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

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For the first time in history, we are pleased to announce that the state of Kansas is formally recognizing Ace Week!!!

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Dress

c. 1900

by Rose Carraer-Eastman

RISD Museum