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What We Wore: Centuries of Peacocking in the City

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Repaired blue tote for my mom. The handle had to be wrapped with lin cable threads since the matching leather could not be found. However it turned out as amazing accent!

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If you’re looking for us, we’ll be here.

Photo: Helmut Newton

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Malibu Beach Party, 1932 Edward Steichen (American, born Luxembourg; 1879–1973) Published: Vanity Fair (January 1932)

A glamorous Hollywood crowd enjoyed a beach party at Lilyan Tashman’s Malibu house, including (from left to right) Tashman and her husband, Edmund Lowe, and Kay Francis.

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The Final Flourish 

Luxe jewels add an elegant touch to any classic button down.

Get inspired by more jewel-shirt combinations. 

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“My Friend Elizabeth Taylor”

Photographer Firooz Zahedi talks about Elizabeth Taylor and their 35 year friendship.

Read the entire article.

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Lady with a fur shawl, dress, hat and umbrella (1905-6 in Paris, France) The craftsmanship of embroidery designs and details is just so marvelous! Retrieved from http://susannaives.com/wordpress/2012/09/french-fashions-from-1905-06/lm05-4/

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Marchesa Celebrates Elevated Femininity on the Fall 2016 Runway

From flowers peaking out of silky bodices, to dresses fashioned out of jewels…

See all of the best runway looks from NYFW. 

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Rita Hayworth wearing 30 pounds pearl dress which sold at an auction for the Red Cross in 1940s Can't imagine what it is like to wear such a heavy dress, and stop wonder how the pearls made her uncomfortable when she was sitting down. But one thing is sure you cannot wear this dress alone. Retrieved from http://m.9gag.com/gag/aMGEgvV

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At the races in Autieul, photo by Regina Relang, 1938-39 Retrieved from http://pin.it/a-pO1iA

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In recognition of Black History Month, we are posting weekly about the life and accomplishments of the first person to set foot at the North Pole… It is Matt Henson Monday!

In 1891, Matthew Henson and Robert Peary sailed North together on the first of six Arctic expeditions that they would undertake together. The North Greenland Expedition of 1891-92 saw Matthew Henson as Peary’s “assistant,” a title that he would keep for all six Arctic expeditions. Henson proved his capability again in the Arctic, meeting the challenges of Arctic survival and exploration as well as (perhaps better than) any other southerner. Donald B. MacMillan described Henson as “the best field man aboard ship.”  Henson’s intelligence and talent were enhanced by the many skills he learned from the Inughuit men and women, whom Peary hired to support the expeditions. More on this next week!

Not only did Matthew Henson excel as an Arctic explorer, but he himself possessed a deep appreciation for the Arctic. As he wrote in his autobiographic account of the 1908-1909 North Pole expedition, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole:

There is an irresistible fascination about the regions of northernmost Grant Land that is impossible for me to describe. Having no poetry in my soul, and being somewhat hardened by years of experience in that inhospitable country, words proper to give you an idea of its unique beauty do no come to mind. Imagine gorgeous bleakness, beautiful blankness. It never seems broad, bright day, even in the middle of June, and the sky has different effects of the varying hours of morning and evening twilight from the first to the last peep of day… Artists have gone with us into the Arctic and I have heard them rave over the wonderful beauties of the scene, and I have seen them at work trying to reproduce some of it, with good results but with nothing like the effect of the original.

P.S. Check out this great audio clip on Henson from AudioFile Magazine.

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Young Franklin Delano Roosevelt must have been every girl’s dream crush back then and now~❤️

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WHAT 1930s STYLE IS YOU? - Hat Classes | HAT ACADEMY | Millinery Creative Collective *find the right hat for your facial shape From hatacademy.com

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Michelangelo Antonioni, 'L'Eclisse', 1962. (Ferrara, Gallerie d'arte moderns e contemporanea, fondo Michelangelo Antonioni). From Valextra Instagram

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It’s back to school time in many parts of the U.S. - I hope everyone hasn’t forgotten too much over the summer. Just in case, here’s a refresher in simple arithmetic courtesy of  Felter’s A First Lesson in Numbers (1868)

[this book] does not propose “to teach the pupil how to think,” for this must be done by a living teacher ; and no book, whatever its pretensions, can be more than an aid …. Whoever attempts to force upon them reasons, solutions, definitions, and relations, violates the fundamental law of the development of the human mind; and, although the pupils may become learned in the book, they are, nevertheless, on the broad road to conceited ignorance.

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Almond Cookie Roses by Instructables’ User paperplateandplane.

These DIY Rose Cookies are made with a DIY stencil (plastic placemat). You bake the curly strip of batter and roll it up to look like a rose.