The Ornamented Being

That dress.

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Merry Christmas lovelies. I’m sending you all my love.

c.1933

Met

(Source: metmuseum.org)

Dress

1837

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accession Number: 37.192

I would 20 please!!! :D

I don’t know much about this costume yet, but it was too beautiful not to share with you….

Dall’opera ‘Zite’n Galera’, costume designer Odette Nicoletti

Look at how beautiful the dresses are!

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Vogue

Just incase you were wondering, I am saying YES to that dress.

Portrait of Christine Boyer, c. 1800

Antoine-Jean Gros

Her hands are beautifully painted.  I can hear my Russian ballet teacher now, “Graceful! Your fingers must be like swans, always seeking, always traveling in a graceful motion.”