turnofthecentury:

Arlette Dorgere by Reutlinger

thanks to marc verat

Actress Lily Elsie (1886-1962).

(Source: julia-loves-bette-davis)

omgthatdress:

Corset

1900

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Molly Bloom.

Edwardian street photography at The Daily Mail.

(Of course, this being a UK tabloid, the comments are along the lines of “Not a tattoo in sight. Wonderful! When women knew their duty.” Ignore the idiots, enjoy the big hats.)

yeoldefashion:

At first glance this 1905 evening gown designed by Lucile and entitled ‘A Protest’ appears to be just a pretty dress, if not with a slightly unusual name and color combination. The whole truth is far more interesting.

I wrote a while back about the Victorian practice of using different colors or gemstones to spell out messages in jewelry. This dress uses the same practice on a larger scale.

The color combination of (g)reen, (w)hite and (v)iolet would have sent a very specific message to any one in the know.

Specifically: (G)ive (W)omen the (V)ote.

This is a suffragette ball gown!

So great.

book-aesthete:

Songs by Ben Jonson: A Selection from the Plays, Masques, and Poems, with the Earliest Known Settings of Certain Numbers
Ben Jonson. Eragny Press, London, 1906.

Printed in red and black on vellum. Colored frontispiece, border and initials by Lucien Pissarro, engraved by Esther Pissarro. Small 8vo, gilt-lettered red calf with gilt leaf design on turn-ins, by Blackwell, joints starting, upper tips bumped. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. Dedication Copy. One of only ten copies on vellum.
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Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell

Though I am young, and cannot tell
Either what Death or Love is well,
Yet I have heard they both bear darts,
And both do aim at human hearts.
And then again, I have been told
Love wounds with heat, as Death with cold;
So that I fear they do but bring
Extremes to touch, and mean one thing.

As in a ruin we it call
One thing to be blown up, or fall;
Or to our end like way may have
By a flash of lightning, or a wave;
So Love’s inflamèd shaft or brand
May kill as soon as Death’s cold hand;
Except Love’s fires the virtue have
To fight the frost out of the grave.

oldhollywood:

From the lost film To the Stars (1906, dir. Georges Méliès) (via)

English actress Lily Elsie (1886-1962).

(Source: fleur-de-versailles)

femmedandy:

lostsplendor:

Lily Elsie, Dapper.

I adore the cut of the suit: uncompromisingly masculine, yet unmistakably flattering to a curvy woman.

The actress Lily Elsie in the musical The New Aladdin, 1906.