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Splendorous Rubbish
Old photos, pretty dresses and a dose of sarcasm. Debunking the myth of constant discomfort during the last 3 centuries of women's fashion.
Monday, April 14, 2014
Friday, January 3, 2014
Friday, December 27, 2013
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'.
Friday, July 26, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Thursday, July 18, 2013
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
Monday, July 15, 2013
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
"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
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
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