Ackerman’s Repository. Promenade dress, January 1814.
Fluffy!
May112012
May92012
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
Jane Austen (via fuckyeahcostumedrama)
May72012
An American printed cotton dress from 1818 with wonderful ruffles.
May42012
Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1801.
I LOVE this dress- the bold color, the pattern, everything!
May22012
The Nicest Goddamn Dame That Ever Lived: Dulce et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
…
May12012
the bare necessities - http://www.photo.rmn.fr/
astronomy kit
(via studyincontrasts)
April292012
Yorkshire, England.
April272012
(via fuckyeahrooms)
4PM
Painting of a family game of checkers (“jeu des dames”) by French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly, ca. 1803 (via titam)
April262012
(via fuckyeahageofsail)
April242012
Chart of Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign (showing the losses in men, their movements, and the temperature), by Charles Minard, 1869
A copy of this chart hung in the bathroom of the honors college at my university; there was this awkward moment once when my dad came to visit and decided to stand there and study the thing in depth./cool story sis
9AM
Ackermann’s Repository, Evening Dress, March 1814.
Ooooh that green!
April222012
(Source: sigosiendohormiga, via madamtaboo)
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