Old Rags

fripperiesandfobs : > Town dress with chemisette owned by Empress Josephine, First Empire  >  > From the Chateau de Malmaision Costume Collection app > : >  >  >>  “T...

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archaeologicalnews : > A delicate pair of slippers that had been sitting unnoticed in a > Scottish university’s collection for more than a century may have > actually ...

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May 1st 1921 cover for the Smart fashions and Limited income themed issue. Illustration by George Wolfe Plank

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fripperiesandfobs : > Dress, 1880  >  > From the Musee du Costume et de la Dentelle > 

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> “The Battle for Bobbed Hair” PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE, June, 1924

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stellar-raven : > Animal Locomotion, Vol. 7 (1872-1885) - Eadweard Muybridge, > photographer. It’s interesting to be able to see these outfits in motion.

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highvictoriana : > historiful :  >  >>  Unknown woman, c. 1880s. 

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questionableadvice : > ~ WOMAN’S HOME COMPANION, July 1915 > via Harvard University Library >  > (click to enlarge)

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tuesday-johnson : > Ca. 1840-1860,   >  > via the > Harvard > University’s Houghton Library, Department of Printing and Graphic > Arts, Harrison D. Horblit Collection of...

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Evening dress of silk brocade, ca 1841-46, Sudley House See some bigger images here .

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Day dress of silk brocade, ca 1841-46, Sudley House See some bigger images here .

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Day dress, ca 1823-25, Sudley House

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Adelina Patti by James Sant, ca 1886, National Portrait Gallery, London > The Italian opera singer Adelina Patti, the last of the line of > great coloratura sopranos, made her�...

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Mrs John Prescott Knight and Her Children by John Prescott Knight, ca 1837 England, the Shire Hall Gallery > A portrait by the Stafford-born artist probably of his wife, > Clarissa ...

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Mrs Richard Grainger, attributed to James Ramsay, ca 1827 UK, Laing Art Gallery

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Miss Eliza O'Neill as Belvidera in Thomas Otway’s ‘Venice Preserved’ by Arthur William Devis, 1816-22, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

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Portrait of a Lady by William Artaud, 1809, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

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Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), Queen of France, in a Court Dress by François Hubert Drouais, 1773 France, the Victoria & Albert Museum > François Hubert Drouais (1727-1775) was born i...

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Portrait of a Young Lady with a Plumed Headdress by British (English) School, 1633 England, Manchester City Galleries > A three-quarter, left side, portrait of a lady in a red embro...

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