Watch out...

Don't get in the way. These ladies will mess you up in the roller derby rink with their signature move. It may look innocent in the photo, but they call it 'The Scissor Sister'.

And Peppers Pride Takes The Lead!

"Um, guys....I thought you said it was a quarter horse, not an eighth."

Contrary to popular belief...

You really can bowl in skirts and a corset. Even bend to pick up a bowling ball!

Vroom!

Wheee!

Bichonnade Leaping

"Bichonnade Leaping" taken in 1905 by an 11 year-old Lartigue

"All the jumping and flying in Lartigue's photographs, it looks like the whole world at the turn of the century is on springs or something. There's a kind of spirit of liberation that's happening at the time and Lartigue matches that up with what stop action photography can do at the time, so you get these really dynamic pictures. And for Lartigue part of the joke, most of the time, is that these people look elegant but they are doing these crazy stunts."
- Kevin Moore (Lartigue biographer)

Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/lartigue.shtml 

Not All Black And White...

The astonishingly non-boring color and texture combinations in Victorian fashion; proof positive...

Prone To Hysterics....?

"Nothing changes more than the notion of what is shocking".

..."The Victorians are the perpetual defendants in a kangaroo court presided over by the present – so often indicted and rehabilitated that the effort grows wearisome."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/21/gay-marriage-cougar-wives-victorians

 

'The Victorians again prove surprising.'

A Victorian couple relax on Yarmouth beach in 1890. Photograph: Getty

Because they look oh SO uncomfortable...

...sure. Keep telling yourselves that as you squeeze into that pair of skinny jeans or, worst case scenario, as you make yet another appointment with your cosmetic surgeon because you just don't like your thighs.