#1930s evening

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Black and white silk evening gown, ca. 1933-1935, French.

Designed by Callot Sœurs.

Palais Galliera.

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1932 Velvet evening dress by Jean Patou

(Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin)

[normasshearer]

Listen, sister, when are you going to get wise to yourself?

NORMA SHEARER & PAULETTE GODDARD as Mary Haines and Miriam Aarons in THE WOMEN (1939) dir. George Cukor

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Evening Dress.

Date: 1938

Designer: Jeanne Lanvin

Medium: Pleated ribbon of black velvet and white silk satin on black silk tulle.

[costumeloverz71]

Evening dress, ca. 1938. Mainbocher. (Worn by Wallis Simson).

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Evening dress, 1937-38.

[factual-fantasy]

I just finished watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. I thought it was fantastic, though I have one☝️ complaint...

It is CRIMINAL that the Gaang never addressed/discovered Appas fear of fire. 😤

Poor Appa was sold to a fire nation circus where he was abused and whipped with fire and forced to preform which made him scared of fire. Azula even ADDRESSES THIS FEAR. "Ah, afraid of fire now, are we?" SO ITS A LEGIT FORMED FEAR. BUT ITS NEVER BROUGHT UP OR DISCOVERED BY THE GAANG?? EVEN THOUGH SUKI WAS THERE AND WOULD KNOW ABOUT HIS FEAR TOO???

How a sky bison gonna fight the fire nation IF HE'S SCARED OF FIRE? They TOTALLY should have addressed that. it could have been a bonding moment between Toph, Aang and Appa and everything!😭😭😭😭

HOW SWEET WOULD IT HAVE BEEN IF THE GAANG FIGURED OUT WHAT HE'S BEEN THROUGH BY THE BURN SCARS ON HIS PAWS, THE HOLES IN HIS BACK/SHOULDERS/HEAD/FACE, THE WEIGHT HE LOST AND THE STRAINED MUSCLES AND HAD A WHOLE EPISODE PAMPERING APPA AND TENDING TO HIS INGURIES?? 😭😭

Especially since at this point he'd been missing for like 4 weeks by this point?? Making an episode where everyone has a special reunion moment with Appa and showing the Gaang helping Appa physically and mentally recover from EVERYTHING he's been through would have been the best. 😔😔😔 Would have been my favorite episode by FAR.

I would LOVE to draw a comic about this myself but that would be a TON of work and research to make sure I write everyone's characters correctly and have the timeline of events all line upppp... and I could write it but the truth is I'm a lousy fic writer and I don't think it would come out the way I wanttttt 😩😩😩

Hopefully I can find a fix-it fic for this particular issue or the post war comics will surprise me with its Appa content 👀👀👀

[eyesaremosa1cs]

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[fashionsfromhistory]

Crocheted Evening Dress

Kostio de War

c.1938

Capitalizing on a broader enthusiasm for hand knitting that emerged in the mid-1930s, [Kostio de War] became famous for her unique hand-knit and crocheted evening gowns. Initially, she explored the idea in chenille thread, pairing sheaths in “loose, large mesh patterns” over slips of “lacquered satin,” as Women’s Wear Daily described in 1935. A sometimes enthusiast for surreal touches, she competed briefly with Elsa Schiaparelli for headlines, particularly when the latter also introduced several hand-knitted pieces in her winter 1935 collection. The U.S. press, however, found several distinct virtues in the elegantly practical garments made by Kostio de War: the dresses could be easily rolled up for travel and resisted wrinkling, while her heavier knitted metallic evening jackets could quickly dress up a simple dinner dress. In 1937, Paris-Soir reported on the popularity and practicality of knitted garments for sport as well as for evening wear, writing, “The more we lead busy lives, the more precious handmade goods become.” They announced that Mme. Kostio de War had recently unearthed in central Europe an amusing book from about 1830 containing instructions for a variety of unusual historical stitches, which she had used in crafting her latest collection: “For evening, she has created with threads of copper, steel, [and] platinum, gowns of the most rare sumptuousness.” In 1938, Denise Veber of the French paper Marianne called these “miracle” evening gowns of gold or silver very simple, but nevertheless of an almost magical (féerique) appearance. (Cora Ginsburg Auctions)

Cora Ginsburg Auctions (2020 Modern)

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Green and Gold Silk Evening Dress, ca. 1938, American.

Designed by Hattie Carnegie.

Worn by Elizabeth Burrage Chalifoux at a Debutante Ball.

MFA Boston.

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1939 Evening gown by I. MAGNIN & CO., San Francisco (retailer)

rayon cellulose crêpe, plastic sequins, metallic thread, cotton, metal

(National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)

[resplendentoutfit]

Painting to Dress Match-up

Bernard Boutet de Monvel (French, 1881–1949) • The Maharani of Indore (in western dress) • 1929

Silk evening dress •  House of Chanel • Gabrielle Chanel, designer (French, 1883-1971) • c. 1930

Designed by French jewelry house, Maubousin, it is the necklace worn in the portrait of The Maharani of Indore. The 47-carat "Indore Pears" diamonds have been set into a diamond and emerald necklace.

Slinky bias-cut silk dresses were a popular choice as evening wear in the late 1920s into the 1930s. In both the Monvel portrait and the dress on the right, bejeweled pins were added at the waist.

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening dress

c. 1933-39

Museum of Vancouver

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Evening dress.

Date: 1933-1936

Medium: Yellow rayon crepe satin

[hauntedparkinglot]

This probably isn’t gonna come up in the show but i feel like Arthur has a massive problem with women, lol. Not in a chauvinistic sense obviously, but the entire show is haunted by women who died around him, or died inadvertently by him. Bella, Sarah, Faroe etc. The lack of women with speaking roles makes sense of course but I feel that Arthur carries a shattered saviour complex around with him.

He’s always saying he “failed”. I wonder how motivated he is by the sensibilities of his time, if he believes he “failed” as a man, as a protector. I feel like he might unconsciously have avoided forming any type of connection with women after Faroe.

Idk, I’ve been thinking about Malevolent’s relationship with gender recently. It doesn’t overtly explore anything, but there’s so many major female players, weighing heavily down on the story, but never fully emerging. I think it’s interesting that all of Arthur’s female loved ones died young, and the only women who are able to appear ‘onscreen’ are undead, or elderly. When women show up, he’s either forced to reflect on the deaths he feels guilt over. Or, he has to confront reality, he’s not a saviour or a massive failure. Here’s a woman who didn’t die young, who he can’t save, who doesn’t need him too.

And LILITH. Unknown being who might be the most powerful thing in the multiverse. Who could be running the whole fucking thing. Protecting Arthur, shielding him from death. How the tables turn.

Also the show is voiced by a single guy so, y’know.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Evening dresses, 1930s.