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“Modernist room” 1928

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Give Greta Gerwig a Star Wars trilogy you cowards

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Super excited to receive my copy of American Goddess Jean Patchett, this is a beautiful tribute to a women who continues to influence glamour and style today. Available now just in time for the holidays.

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lauren bacall modeling for harpers bazaar during the vreeland era

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1926 Beaded evening dress with fishtail points at the hem. It is a sleeveless peach-colored crepe de chine having shoulder straps and the bodice top beaded in faceted emerald-colored stones, crystal beads and pearls over silver lame, the bodice having a banded pattern with crystal beads and pearls. The skirt has pointed fishtails decorated in the manner of the bodice top and swags of crystal beads. There is a fabric corsage to one hip. From Kerry Taylor Auctions.

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1922-24 c. Evening gowns.

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Hiroshi Yoshida.

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Coby Whitmore illustration, 1957

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Evening Dress

Maria Gallenga

c.1920

RISD Museum

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Dinner Dress

Drecoll

c.1914

National Gallery of Victoria

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Day Dress

1865-1868

Museo de Traje

Museo del Romanticismo Flickr

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Norman Parkinson for American Glamour, 1949

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Burlington Mills 1946