Category Archive: Fashion
Happy Hallowe’en
I couldn’t resist some of these old fashioned fancy dress costumes culled from the web. If I had lots of time on my hands (hmmm…) I’d love to someday make a crepe paper costume. (Lots of pix after the jump!)…
What the Hat?
I was doing a little research on Peter Paul Rubens’ wife Helena Fourment, this morning. They married in 1630, when he was 53 and she was 16 (ahem), and she inspired some of his most voluptuously and rosy works from…
Songs of Lace
I couldn’t resist posting these photos of some of the incredible pieces of centuries-old lace now on display at the Met, as part of the museum’s “Gems of European Lace” exhibit. Okay, I admit, the title sounds pretty snoozy, and…
Between Waldorf and Astoria
Yesterday I was reading about New York’s haughty hotel culture at the turn of the century, when the word ‘ritz’ became synonymous with a certain style of urbanized high life. There were ‘the ritzies,’ who often ‘ritzed’ those on the…
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