#womens vintage clothing

[susoriginals]

Vintage Nordic Sweater Fair Isle Pullover by Gitano Unisex Extra Large Chest =60" definitely Oversized! with wide drop shoulders circa 1980s!

[luxus-aeterna]

At a historic seaport aboard the 1877 ELISSA, Galveston

[diioonysus]

vintage men’s fashion in black history

[dandyads]

Jantzen, 1956

[beachballgirl]

Going bar hopping 🍷🍸tonight, wearing an Atlanta Braves t shirt, and Levis.

Simple and sexy at the same time

[sacrificial1-lamb]

“ℑ 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔦𝔱 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔞𝔰 𝔦𝔱 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔰 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔱𝔬 𝔪𝔢” - @mothercain

shot on film

collaboration with @ _littlestwolf (ig)

[misscarmelitaleon]

“The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.”

— Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias

THE Eartha Kitt, 1970

[profesors]

◾A Serbian lady from Крагујевац(eng. Kraguyevats/lat. Kragujevac), dressed in serbian traditional city clothes 🇷🇸

▪️Time: 1895

▪️Photographer Љубиша Ђонић

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Lane Bryant was founded in New York in 1904 as a shop for standard-sized women. When a pregnant customer asked the proprietor, Lena Bryant (the bank officer who opened her account had misspelled her name), to make a "presentable but comfortable" dress for her, it was the first commercially available maternity dress.

When measuring her customers, Bryant realized the need for clothing for those who needed larger sizes than those usually available. So she began to stock them, and the first "plus size" clothing was available. Business boomed. It became a chain, which now has 448 stores in 46 states.

The ad on the left appeared in the NY Times in 1923 and the one on the right in 1925. I like the line, "If you are not slender." Better than "stout" or "plus sized."

Source: NY Times

[oldvintageglamour]

Miss Dorothea Owens trying on a new skirt in the Rosetta Frocks dress shop which is owned by Miss Cecilia Hall, Chicago, Illinois, 1942 🖤😍🖤😍🖤

📸: Jack Delano

[eyesfullofmoon]

"At a motorcycle rally in Laconia, New Hampshire in 1947, some riders wore personalized protective leather belts."

Photographed by Sam Shere.

[luxus-aeterna]

oh, to be a ghost roaming those halls… || IG

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[diioonysus]

beauty around the world

[calabria-mediterranea]

Occitan is still spoken in Southern Italy's Calabria

Blessed with one of the most beautiful languages, Italy is also home to a plethora of linguistic minorities, twelve to be precise, across fourteen regions, with almost three million speakers. The Occitan linguistic minority of the Alpine valleys of Northern Italy's Piedmont and Liguria is probably one of the most well known, also because of the importance the language had in the history of European culture and literature: the Langue d’Oc and its poetry inspired the troubadours of Provence, in Southern France. In those days, Occitan was spoken in the South of France, from the Atlantic to the Alps, but today only small pockets of Occitan-speaking people exists, mostly across the Alpine valleys of France, Liguria, Piedmont and in thr town Guardia Piemontese, in Southern Italy's Calabria. 

How did Occitan speaking people end up from the mountains of Northern Italy to the southernmost region of the Italian peninsula?

It’s a long story, one that brings us back to the 13th century, to a religious minority called Waldensians and to the fact Calabria is known for being a welcoming land for all those seeking refuge, from Greeks to Albanians and Jews.

The Waldensian movement had developed in the Cottian Alps between France and Northern Italy towards the end of the 12th century, most likely thanks to the contributions of Peter Waldo (from whom the movement took its name). Waldensians lived a life of asceticism and poverty, but some of their more extreme views — lack of faith in transubstantiation and having associated the Catholic church with the “harlot of the Apocalypse” — turned them into religious pariah and victims of persecution across Europe.

A considerable group of Waldensians moved to Calabria in the 13th century to escape persecution in Northern Italy and the land of Calabria proved to be a blessing, because its fertile soil allowed the development of a prosperous community.

Guardia Piemontese is a town on the Western coast of Northern Calabria.

The date of Guardia's foundation is unknown, and the name of the place has changed several times in history. "Guardia" means watch or lookout, and this name is probably related to a lookout tower built in the 11th century. Such lookout towers were built to warn against Arab pirates, then called Saracens, ravaging the coast.

For the first century, the community of Guardia cohabited peacefully with their Catholic neighbors, but things tragically changed when the Waldensians decided to join the Protestant Reform: then, they became the enemy and victims of a religious persecution that was to obliterate them in the early summer of 1561. Those tragic events are still remembered today in Guardia Piemontese, thanks to a monument called La Porta del Sangue, (the Gate of blood), a memento to the violence that killed so many and forced many others to conversion.

Despite the suppression of their religion, the people of Guardia, or La Gàrdia, as they call it, have continued to use their distinct Occitan dialect, Gardiòl. Not surprisingly, it has been influenced by the speech of their neighbours in Calabria. For example, Gardiòl has adopted the use of retroflex consonants, common in Sicily and southern Italy.

The traditions that the Waldensians brought from Piedmont to Calabria, such as the Occitan language and certain customs, have survived over the centuries right through to the present day.

In 1863 the name Guardia was changed to Guardia Piemontese, to honor the geographical origins of the Waldensians.

On 5 June 2011, 450 years after the massacre in Guardia, the Waldensian Church opened a museum and cultural centre in the town. The museums tells the story of how the Waldensians arrived all the way in Calabria and preserves agricultural tools, the traditional clothing of Guardia Piemontese, made with a particular yarn of broom and the famous hurdy gurdy, an French instrument of medieval origins. In the Occitan valleys in Italy, the hurdy-gurdy was the traveling companion of buskers.

The Waldensian Church and the municipal authorities now collaborate closely in cultural affairs. Numerous ecumenical events have been planned together with the local Catholic community to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

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[stone-cold-groove]

Art Institute of Pittsburgh... offers a remarkably complete training in either fashion illustration or dress design.