Allo' fine and fancy-free dandies!

This is just a wee tickle of a photo shoot avec models with a tiny fraction of my steampunk mask collection (available for purchase on Etsy).

Overall I think the pictures came out beautifully -pensive, brooding, decadent. I can't WAIT to continue with more pictures in the New Year in the unbelievable new location ( Read more... )

This extraordinary video by Soomo Publishing dramatizes the fight for women's suffrage to the tune of "Bad Romance"; polemic filks are often painfully didactic, but the folks at Soomo manage to transpose Lady Gaga's original imagery into an Edwardian context with a laser-guided precision that would do Weird Al proud.

(A tip of the topper to kosaginolegion and dungeonwriter ( Read more... )

Godey's Lady's Book was the Oprah/Ladies' Home Journal/Cosmopolitan magazine of the 1800's ( Read more... )

I'm writing my honors thesis on Westerners in China and the debate on feminism and identity as seen through fashion.  I'm working on a section on footbinding, and it constantly gets compared to the practice of wearing corsets in the West.  I was wondering if someone here had a timeline of the development of the corset (looking at around 1850-1920 ( Read more... )

But WHAT cash is the question ( Read more... )

hey I'm not sure if you guys have seen this or not, but I thought it worthy to post this tasty link to some civil war photos ( Read more... )

If the young lady wearing the pink dress, spotted fur cape and muff, had light hair, light complexion and blue eyes, who was in company with a lady dressed in black, that I passed about 5 o’clock on Friday evening in South Seventh Street, between First and Second, Williamsburg, L.I., will address a line to Waldo, Williamsburg Post Office, she ( Read more... )

We always tend to associate steam with airships, but not everyone can be a captain of the skies.


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Hey guys!  This doesn't have to do with fashion, but I attended a lecture tonight given by Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the RMS Titanic.  I learned something interesting, and wanted to share it with anyone who isn't aware.  I know I wasn't. :P


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"Britons did not hesitate to exchange their bowlers for turbans, tarbushes or mandarin caps if only they were given men whom they could lead into battle. Lawrence of Arabia was a wonder and a curiosity in this century, but there were hundreds of his countrymen like him who performed similar exploits in the previous century."
- Byron Farewell, Queen ( Read more... )