The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify
Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness
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Maison Agnès, Beaded & Embroidered Evening Dress of Green Watered Silk, Paris, c. 1925.
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I haven’t been home since January which means I have had a lot of shows to catch up on in the past few days
Unfortunately I am now caught up on GoT and I can say that while I no longer enjoy the books, I really hate the show. I’m not sure what happened but I really can’t stand it. Besides I already know what happens in the rest of the series. I do however approve of the guy playing Jaqen H’ghar and his hair. Which is basically awesome.
On the other hand we have The Borgias with Francois Arnaud AND Jeremy Irons. I’m actually interested in the plot line, the costumes are beautiful (I also took classes from the man who makes Lucrezia’s gowns), and I love the characters.
Also, there is no Red Wedding that I’m going to have to eventually come to terms with.Even though Augustus Prew met an unfortunate end, I still love the show.To go against Jaqen H’ghar’s awesome wicked cool,
oh my Lord your face is really sexyhair we have Cesare Borgias and the curls.
And as a bonus I present the Shaggy dog look:
And that, Lords and Ladies, is a terribly hard choice. This is most likely the weirdest question I have ever asked on the Ornamented Being, but in the category of better hair: Who wins?
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Fair warning tomorrow is random day. I will be between continents a few thousands miles in the air so why not?
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Lady of The Lake
Kirsty Mitchell
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Doña Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda, Princess of Eboli, Duchess of Pastrana, “She was considered one of Spain’s greatest beauties, despite having lost an eye in a mock duel with a page when she was young.”
(Source: Wikipedia)
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“This collar is made of particularly fine batiste or cambric. As the name suggests, the material originally came from the Flemish town of Kamerijk or Cambrai. It was introduced to the Northern Netherlands by the Flemish refugees who arrived in the late sixteenth century. Haarlem weavers specialised in the fabric. Because of its shape, this kind of collar was known as a millstone ruff. These became fashionable in the second half of the sixteenth century under the influence of the Spanish rulers. Early millstone ruffs were starched with regular pleats. This example, however, is looser and less tidy. It is of a type that was popular with young, fashionable men around 1615 to 1635. This is the only surviving pleated ruff in the world.”
Edit because I have a cold, a deadline, and deleting the five messages in my inbox made me smile.
Also I can’t be bothered to write the same message five times so here goes!Hopefully I don’t sound like I’m completely annoyed by the constant bombardment of messages in my ask box telling me my source is wrong. If you find a problem with the text feel free to take it up with Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Museum for Art and History.
I’ve even saved you the trouble of finding their contact details: Click here! I’m sure they would just love to hear why you think they are wrong! Please feel free to write the museum and tell them exactly what you’ve been telling me all day!
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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill at 19, in the uniform of the Fourth Queen’s Own Hussars.
Winston
Leonard SpencerChurchill
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http://www.threadsoffeeling.com/
This is such a moving presentation. Each tiny wisp of fabric represents a baby left at The Foundling House In London. As the slideshow progresses, you become lost in the swatches of fabric and the thoughts of each baby that wore them. Their mothers or families left them with a piece of fabric to identify them, sometimes to be reclaimed but often times not.“When mothers left babies at London’s Foundling Hospital in the mid-eighteenth century, the Hospital often retained a small token as a means of identification, usually a piece of fabric. These swatches of fabric now form Britain’s largest collection of everyday textiles from the eighteenth century. They include the whole range of fabrics worn by ordinary women, along with ribbons, embroidery and even some baby clothes. Beautiful and poignant, each scrap of material reflects the life of an infant child and that of its absent parent. The enthralling stories the fabrics tell about textiles, fashion, women’s skills, infant clothing and maternal emotion are the material of Threads of Feeling.”
Burnley and Trowbridge sells this wonderful book at their online storehttp://www.burnleyandtrowbridge.com/threadsoffeelingthelondonfoundlinghospitalstextiletokens1740-1770.aspx -
You know the drill: go get in my closet.
- 17th century
- costume
- costume
- fashion
- fashion
- geeeez I need to go away and stop making lame jokes on tumblr
- go get in my closet
- hello gorgeousness
- history
- history
- if it ain't baroque don't fix it
- stupid blackadder jokes that no one ever gets
- stupid percy I wish you came back for season three
- shoes
- heels
- textile
- embroidery
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I updated the Mended Soul! Please click here! One last costume to cover!
