The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify. Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness.
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I promise to stop spamming you with new photos from the collection but geez it’s all so beautful and new! I’m pretty sure I’ve died and gone to heaven.
Dress (Ball Gown)
House of Worth (French, 1858–1956)
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Dress (Ball Gown)
House of Worth (French, 1858–1956)
- Charles Frederick Worth
- Gah. I’m seeing new pictures/ information with almost all the costumes I’m looking at!!!
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Just joking. I totally approve of the new database. I’m spotting new photos which are so wonderful!
Robe à la Française
c. 1760-70
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My swans had BABIES!!!!
Ok so they aren’t my swans but I am quite fond of them. I feed them (fresh bread and lettuce don’t worry I’ve already read up on what to feed them) and I have lovingly named them Vickie and Bertie.
Anyway back to the babies! They have four cygnets named Alfred, Louise, Leopold and Beatrice (cookies if you get the reference to the names). The photo of the cygnet eating with his parents above is Alfred. I’ve noticed he hangs out with his parental unit more than his sibs!
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Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. ~Thich Nat Hahn
(tea cup bracelets!!!!)
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We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage…/ …so we’ll live,/ And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh/ At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues/ Talk of court news; and we’ll talk with them too,/ Who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out;/ And take upon ‘s the mystery of things,/ As if we were God’s spies…
-King Lear, Act V, Scene 3
I have so many favourite Shakespeare quotes but this particular one has stayed with me through the years. There is nothing in this world that can replace the love and loyalty of a daughter.
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This is the gown Alice wore when she came back from Wonderland.
1875, USA - silk faille
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