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ornamentedbeing: In writing an account of the Ball for The...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:14:38 -0500

In writing an account of the Ball for The Graphic, Lady Violet Greville felt, as she spoke of the Princess of Wales, constrained to quote the 16th-century French author Brantôme who described Marguerite de Valois as “robed in cloth of silver with long sleeves, her hair richly dressed and her whole appearance of such grace and majesty that she resembled more a goddess from heaven than a Queen upon earth.”

-Rvondeh

At long last I can share my costume with the world. Eight months ago I entered my final year at Wimbledon College of Art studying Costume Interpretation. Our first assignment was to create a costume to compliment the new exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace entitled ‘In Fine Style’. As I walked around the Red Room during the Da Vinci exhibition I could never imagine that just a short while later my own costume would grace this majestic room.

I chose to recreate the fancy dress costume of Alexandra, Princess of Wales dressed as Marguerite de Valois worn to the Duchess of Devonshire House Ball in 1897. As I was the intern for The Tudor Tailor last year and helped to make the costume and work on the photo shoot for the new book The Tudor Child, I was requested to create the costume of the Hon. Louvima Knollys who accompanied Alexandra as her page.

The skirt and bodice is entirely finished by hand. I started with eight small appliqués to build my shape and completed the surface decoration by hand based on the photos. I thought after this costume I would never wish to string another pearl or couch another row again but for my final costume I am working on beading once again. I was able to study close ups of the image at the National Archives and I was graciously granted permission to study hi-res images of the 4 existing photographs of Alexandra. Both of these allowed me to re-create what is hopefully a very close historic reproduction of this costume.

I am grateful to both of my models, to all of the researchers who assisted me in this endeavour to track down photos to study, to you my followers who continue to inspire me, and most of all to my mother who was very patient during my frantic midnight phone calls.

I will leave you with the quote that first came to mind when my models descended the staircase into the gallery last night, ‘ She [Alexandra] came down one day in a marvellous … long flowering train. She dazzled me utterly, I was speechless with adoration’.

-Princess Marie of Edinburgh

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Sun, 19 May 2013 12:11:46 -0500

iflybikes: When men talk of women and girls in terms of legal/not legal, what they’re really saying...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:05:50 -0500

iflybikes:

When men talk of women and girls in terms of legal/not legal, what they’re really saying is “I already sexually objectify this child and would attempt to fuck her if there were no laws in the way.”

You can’t deny that is fucking scary.

grayskymorning: Nicole Franzen

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:04:53 -0500

grayskymorning:

Nicole Franzen

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Sun, 19 May 2013 12:04:18 -0500

gothiccharmschool: More furniture to covet!

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:50 -0500

gothiccharmschool:

More furniture to covet!

lolitahime: fuwakumasan in Sweetie Chandelier

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:37:55 -0500

lolitahime:

fuwakumasan in Sweetie Chandelier

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Sun, 19 May 2013 11:30:33 -0500

aflowerinhand: Any suggestions for head accessories and...

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:30:13 -0500

aflowerinhand:

Any suggestions for head accessories and bag?

JSK, Bolero: Innocent World
Skirt: Juliette et Justine

kinspirational: flower covered areas sources 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:38:25 -0500

kinspirational:

flower covered areas

sources

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9

thescienceofjohnlock: so-relatable: Yahoo is trying to buy...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:54:02 -0500

thescienceofjohnlock:

so-relatable:

Yahoo is trying to buy tumblr. Reblog if you are against this!

Please no. We would end up with ads everywhere. Also Sky recently changed to yahoo for it’s email services and 100s of thousands of complaints ensued, my Sky email still isn’t working properly.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 21:17:49 -0500

abiikat: Cat tea party!

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:15:25 -0500

abiikat:

Cat tea party!

nae-design: Alice in Wonderland Teabags from Tokyo Disneyland

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:22:22 -0500

nae-design:

Alice in Wonderland Teabags from Tokyo Disneyland

crystaline: Ozz Angelo 2013 S/S - OzzOnJapan

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:11:00 -0500

crystaline:

Ozz Angelo 2013 S/S - OzzOnJapan

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Fri, 17 May 2013 14:45:00 -0500

"Some men who want to compliment random women on the street are genuinely good guys who just don’t..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:40:00 -0500

“Some men who want to compliment random women on the street are genuinely good guys who just don’t understand why their comments might be unwelcome. Some men who want to compliment random women on the street are creepy predators. Most are somewhere in between, and guess what? I don’t know you, I don’t know your life, and I have no idea if you’re going to leave it at “Hey, you look good in that dress!” or follow it up with “But you’d look better without it! Har har! C’mon, where’re you going? I know you heard me! Fucking cunt, nobody wants your fat ass anyway, bitch.”

When you compliment a random woman who doesn’t know you, no matter how nice you are about it, there’s a good chance she’s going to freak out internally because for all she knows, you could be that latter type. And I get that it’s really unfair that women would just assume that about you. I get that it sucks that sometimes, expressing totally reasonable opinions like “hey you’re hot” will make women terrified of you or furious at you. That’s not fair.

But if you’re going to lay the blame for that somewhere, for fuck’s sake, don’t blame the woman. Blame all the guys who have called her a bitch and a cunt for ignoring their advances. Blame all the guys who may have harassed, abused, or assaulted her in the past. Blame all the people who may never do such a thing themselves, but who were quick to blame her and tell her to just get over it. Blame the fact that if she stops and talks to you and then something bad happens, people will blame her for stopping and talking to you.”

- Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot » Brute Reason (via brute-reason)

^^^^^^^^^^^^

(via misandry-mermaid)

You know, I’ll go a step further and say - there are no “men who want to compliment random women on the street [who] are genuinely good guys who just don’t understand why their comments might be unwelcome.” There are guys who pretend that they don’t understand why their comments are unwelcome. But the man who whistles out his car window at me while I’m waiting for a light, the guy who stares at me while I ride past on my bike, the guy who says “Hey beautiful!” at me and my friend as we’re talking at an outdoor cafe - none of those guys want to make me feel good.

Not a single one.

I keep hearing about this guy! The good guy who catcalls and doesn’t get how it’s wrong, the nice guy who just wants to tell you you have beautiful eyes. And every time I’m told about that guy, it’s so that I don’t react, don’t glare, don’t respond negatively. Because who knows! Maybe he really super meant it in his heart and was just trying to pay you a compliment.

Because here’s the thing - here’s how I know that the nice guy ain’t real; because I always do react, always glare, always respond negatively. I always say, “No, that wasn’t okay. Don’t do that to me again.” And a nice guy? Would come back with, “Oh, man, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make you feel bad. You’re right. I won’t do that again.” A nice guy who didn’t get it would say, “Wow, I didn’t think about it that way. Is this something that you think a lot of women feel?”

And that never happens - what happens is I get called names, or have coffee thrown at my face, or get shoved up against a wall, or get followed for fifteen blocks, or get shouted out from six inches away by a man who’s six inches taller and fifty pounds bigger than I am. What happens is that I’m shown, again and again and again, that these “compliments” are prologues to a story this guy’s just desperate to tell, the story of him scaring me, hurting me, making sure I know my place. And he can tell the story as loud as he wants, because he can always fall back on, “I’m a good guy! She’s the one who started it! I was just trying to pay the bitch a compliment.”

So stop telling me that there are good guys out there who just don’t understand, because there aren’t. What there are, are guys who will pretend to be good guys, right up until you don’t smile at them. And then they show who they really are.

(via leupagus)

I think I would like to add my own little tidbit and say, that in my experience there are two kinds of compliments I will get from guys: the kind above, which has to do with my body. And that kind I do not appreciate. But then there are guys who will give compliments in the same way that some women will sometimes compliment me: on some element of my style. That way rarely happens, but sometimes it does. I’d much rather hear “hey I really like that shoe and sock combination” (which I heard from a guy last week) over a catcall.

meadow-of-sinful-thoughts: bravebaggins: wittyandcharming: pri...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:22:29 -0500

meadow-of-sinful-thoughts:

bravebaggins:

wittyandcharming:

princessmeggala0913:

ladytabularasa:

modified-minds:

dangerousthisjackofhearts:

[x]

I WOULD WEAR THIS AND I WOULD BE A STARK OF WINTERFELL AND IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL

SO GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GIVE IT

oh my god. it’s gorgeous.

I NEED THIS IN MY LIFEEEEEEE

thebestworstidea: softgore: “This piece was primarily a trust...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:07:39 -0500

thebestworstidea:

softgore:

“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.

Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.”

This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”

this is why performance art is important

So every single person who told me ‘ignore them they’ll go away’ and ‘you can’t let them know they bothered you’ and ‘They’ll stop if they don’t see you react’ and all that bull shit, my entire school career, I want you to look good and hard at this.

I want you to think about what you said.

What you keep saying.

What you are telling your children.

You are making them powerless.

glamorousgogether: Astrid Berges Frisbey lavishly adorn in...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:03:03 -0500

glamorousgogether:

Astrid Berges Frisbey lavishly adorn in pearls.