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• Evening Dress.

Date: ca. 1912

Designer/Maker: Jean-Phillipe Worth

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• Celestial Blue Ball Gown.

Date: 1867

Maker: Marie and Josephine Virfolet (New York City)

Medium: Silk satin (tulle was replaced ca. 1980)

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Homework assignment to use effects like George Méliès did (i didn't do the assignment right but thats okay)

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History wants so badly for Cleopatra to be beautiful. Like they can’t conceive of Rome being intimidated by anything less

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ab. 1893 Scrap album fancy dress by Madame Gough, London (court dressmaker), Sarah Ann Gough (designer)

silk, cotton, linen, paper, glue, metal (fastening), wood, leather, baleen, wax, paint

(National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)

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The Flower Vendor by Victor Prouvé (1882)

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If y’all wanna know the true power of hate, just remember that Alan Turing, the breaker of the enigma code in WWII, was driven to suicide by being forced to undergo chemical castration as a punishment for his homosexuality.

Historians say he saved 14 to 21 million lives.

I’d also like to say in the time we studied WWII in school, the history textbooks never mentioned him. I had never heard of the guy until I watched “The Imitation Game” which I 110% recommend you watch if you haven’t.Alan Turing was a blessing to humanity who saved (once again) 14 to 21 million lives, and he is left out of history because he was gay.

And this is just one example?? So many brilliant and heroic people are left out of history because of their race, their gender, their sexuality, their religion, and it’s just because some bigots in positions of influence get to decide what parts of history are remembered.

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Protesting the high school dress code that banned slacks for girls, Brooklyn c.1940

via reddit

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First ever recorded snowball fight (1897)

Happy Holidays And Merry Christmas To All!

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look pleasant, please |1918|

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1920-30 c. Some Art Deco-style lettering. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

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Summer, 1923 Fashion page from the Gimbel Brothers catalog.

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August, 1921 Cover of "Filmplay Journal" with a painting of Constance Talmadge by Sid Hydeman. From Silent Era and Pre Code Art, FB.

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'Serpent', a scent bottle, no.

502, designed 1920. René Lalique.

Clear, frosted and sepia stained glass.

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Girl are you the Hays Code the way you consider media irredeemable if it depicts anything that strays away from the norm you're comfortable with or depicts anything morally questionable without definitively condemning it and anyone associated with it, therefore creating worse stories and content and making it difficult for people to engage with complicated issues from a nuanced and controlled perspective?