My aunt gave me the most glorious gift - a victorian blouse, THAT FITS. :`D
OH MY GOOOOOOD HANNAH!!!
(via fashionforestry)
“The greatest thing about the invention of the bicycle and ladies starting to ride them is: everything. The clothes! The bikes! The attitude! But perhaps especially: the scads of satirical cartoons made at the time that were supposed to make women look shocking and inappropriate but just makes them look super stylish and badass instead. I just can’t get over the cigarette in the cartoon I used though, and the splayed legs as she rumbles willy-nilly down the street. God, is there anything better than cartoons?”
no, kate, there is nothing better than your cartoons. this feels like a mashup between the glory days of married to the sea and kate beaton’s regular genius.
Mourning jewellery: Jet Brooch, 19th century. (via Jet (lignite) - Wikipedia)
ooo pretty. have i shared my mourning brooch with tumblr yet?
Electro-physiology sessions (Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine ou Analyse Electro-Physiologique de L’Expression des Passions, Paris, 1862) conducted by Dr. Duchenne and photographed by Adrien Tournachon (brother of the better known Gaspard Felix Tournachon, aka Nadar). From Luminous-Lint - found via e l e t t r o g e n i c a.
