Posts tagged costume
My brain is orgasming at the sight of these gorgeous coats/jackets. There are a ton more here , from Laura Galic…amazing.
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Staircase inside the museum of fine arts.
Théophile Tardif-Desvaux, from Angers pittoresque (Picturesque Angers), author mentioned only by the initials E. L., Angers, 1843.
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So after I made that post I decided to sit down and design some real clothes for these people. No longer shall they pose naked in white voids. Now they shall pose in white voids dressed in an unholy dubstep mashup of Persian-Napoleonic-Scottish-Highland-Japanese dress, complete with celtic…
“ In 1906 The Journal of the English Folk Song Society published a piece on the old English ballad ‘Death and the Lady.’ Some enterprising female entertainer encountered the article and realized the story might be used as a great vaudeville piece about the evils of card play and alcohol. Touring performers were always searching for material that would play well in the sticks. The city folks would enjoy the Grand Guignol staging, the traditional song, and the vocal technique.
Here Joseph Hall, the Brooklyn born photographer who had made a career on baseball pictures and theatrical production stills, captured the sequence of the action, providing a peculiarly detailed—and rare view—of the progress of a single vaudeville performance. ”
[ Text : David Shields ]
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Watercolor illustrations of different styles of sari & clothing worn by women in South Asia, 1928.
You know, I’ve really wanted to try doing more backgrounds lately, so I figured ‘Why not start with the most important place: St. Victor’s Graveyard?’ I probably know more about this place than anywhere else in Brookham, with its lack of scary, perspective-oriented buildings which I have currently absolutely no skill with.
Game of Thrones - Sandor ”the Hound” and Joffrey (I hope it’s a right names >__<)
Pastels. I love pastels….
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