If you've read Jane Eyre, then you might see a little bit more than just nameless faces in these images...;-) These immediately struck me as characters from Charlotte Brontë's novel; there seems to be one of young Jane and Helen Burns, Jane reading, even Jane with Mr. Rochester, and also Rochester by himself ( Read more... )

Vox populi, vox Dei! The people have spoken, so here is your next challenge: a classic costume drama, and a wonderfully beautiful film; Anne of Green Gables. I know many people love this story, and it has plenty of wintery and Christmassy scenes, so I thought it would be a good theme. ;-)

You have two weeks to submit your entries, until the ( Read more... )

Hello everyone! To my delight, I was invited by olde_fashioned on behalf of herself and midenianscholar to join them in running the community. As this has quickly become one of my favorite icontests, I immediately agreed ( Read more... )

The theme this week the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro starring Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Using caps kindly provided by elea24 (available HERE) of some very elegant Spanish-style costuming, and of course, Zorro's infamous black garb, I thought this would be a fun change ( Read more... )

The theme this week well center around Turn of the Century Fashions. Various lovely ladies, wearing garments ranging from late Victorian to the Edwardian era. I collected these from some of archduchessmay's posts over at lamodeillustree so there aren't any specific dates, and only some have their names preserved in the URLs ( Read more... )

Posting a little earlier tonight. ;-) I hope none of you mind having two movie challenges in a row, but I've been rather in the mood for this of late, due to watching it again and drooling over admiring the costumes for the umpteenth time. ;-) So this week our challenge will be the 2004 The Phantom of the Opera film, starring Emmy Rossum and ( Read more... )

This time the theme is something a little different -- Jane Eyre illustrations by F. H. Townsend. Originally published in 1897 along with Charlotte Bronte's famous novel, there are fourteen black and white woodcut-style illustrations depicting various scenes from the story. I stumbled across these a while back, and thought they would make a great ( Read more... )

This is our first art-centered theme, something I would like to do fairly often since there are tons of wonderful paintings that are costume related. ;-) So our third challenge is The Art of James Jacques Joseph Tissot. You can read about him at the Art Renewal Center, and the credit for the all images also goes to the ARC.

( Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. )