The Ornamented Being

Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify. Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness.

Posted 1 year ago
1869 wedding gown of Elisabeth of Wied, Queen Consort of Romania in The dress is made of silk satin, silk tulle with cotton and paper faux flowers.

Held at FIDM.
- wedding
- gown
- fashion
- costume
- victorian
- beauty
- art
- gorgeous
- vintage
- antique
- consort
- victorian
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Posted 1 year ago
Portrait of Empress Consort Maria Feodorovna, Dagmar of Denmark

~~By now you should have figured out that I have a thing for Russian Court costumes.~~
- costume
- fashion
- beauty
- dagmar
- costume
- princess
- empress
- consort
- russia
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Posted 1 year ago
England’s Glemham Hall features 18th and 18th Century art pieces enlarged to cover the walls - This room features Madame de Pompadour at Her Tambour Frame (1763–64) by François-Hubert Drouais. Photographed by Tim Walker for W Magazine, April 2011.
- madame de pompadour
- costume
- tambour
- art
- fashion
- 18th century
- france
- consort
- mistress
- beauty
- queen
- fashion
- rococo
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Posted 2 years ago
When I saw this I sat here for a few minutes just staring at the screen.

The wedding garments of Lajos IV and Mary of Hungary, dated 1526

Pretty crazy don’t you agree?
- king
- queen
- hungary
- consort
- fashion
- costume
- OLD!
- antique
- history
- wedding
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Posted 2 years ago
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria

….big HIPS!
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