The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify
Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness
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Georgian 18K Pearl Montgolfier Balloon Pendant Locket - late 18th century
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I love these brooches! The V&A has one in their collection!
Georgian Regard Brooch England Circa 1780 A brooch in the form of a key, with stones spelling ‘regard’ hanging from it.
Ruby, Emerald, Garnet, Amethyst, Ruby, and a Diamond
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I’m pretty sure my brain just melted.
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How naughty!
James Gillray: Fashionable Contrasts; – or – the Duchess’s little shoe yeilding to the magnitude of the Duke’s foot, originally published by Hannah Humphrey on January 24, 1792.
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The Duchess (2008)
Look at the goldwork on that stomacher!
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The Evolution of Women’s Hair in Four Minutes
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Child’s Dress MFA Boston
Pinkie by Thomas Lawrence
“Children’s fashion often preceded similar changes in adult clothing. Simple frocks for girls in the closing decades of the 18th century foreshadowed the fashionable high-waisted, neo-classical style that would become popular for women during the first decades of the 19th century.”
- J. A’s World
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Elizabeth and Dido attributed to Johann Zoffany
18th c. Girl With a Kitten, Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
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Photography by William Selden, styling by Katie Shillingford, and modeling by Katlin Aas
+ for Dazed and Confused Magazine, November 2009I spy a gable hood!!!!
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Photo reblogged from Obstinate Headstrong Girl
The back on this gown is very interesting, I’ve never seen anything like it before. Would any of you kind beautiful people know the name of the design on the upper back and/or how it’s made and the origin?
I wish I could zoom in on it to see how exactly it’s made… the bottom of the back looks like a plain English back but the top is different… help?
I’m pretty sure that is an en fourreau?
En fourreau pleats are also evil.
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Costume (Fancy Dress)
1890
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I am, I’m too fabulous
I’m so fierce that it’s so nuts
I live, to be model thin
Dress me, I’m your mannequin
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Fashion put it all on me
Don’t you want to see these clothes on me
Fashion put it all on me
I am anyone you want me to be -
This is a Georgian chatelaine which “is a device which clips to the waist band or belt of a dress for holding such items as the mistress of the house would need with her throughout the day. It might include her seal, watch, scissors, thimble, a vinaigrette, and a key holder.”
(Not quite Regency but it’s under the same ruler so it’s all good)
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Paulo Mei – The Lovers’ Tiff
“I was finally getting over you and actually believing I didn’t need you. I was finally accepting a life without you. Then you smiled at me and ruined it all.”
