oh my god lauren
I’D DO IT.
THIS IS MARVELOUS!!
Now this is doing Fancy Dress right.
New Woman fancy dress, 1896 England, Fancy Dresses Described by Ardern Holt
(See Illustration, Fig. 29.) She wears a cloth tailor-made gown, and her bicycle is pourtrayed in front of it, together with the Sporting Times and her golf club; she carries her betting book and her latch-key at her side, her gun is slung across her shoulder, and her pretty Tam o’ Shanter is surmounted by a bicycle lamp. She has gaiters to her patent leather shoes, and is armed at all points for conquest.
This girl CAN. NOT. BE. STOPPED!!
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Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia dressed in a XVII century Russian costume for the Romanov Imperial Ball, April 1903.
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Princess Chavchavaze in Gipsy Costume
Fancy-Dress Party in Kelliher, MN
Click through for detail and check out the crazy costumes!
Given that Kelliher’s population is under 300 these days, I can only imagine that this was at least half of the young adults in the town back then.
Real-Photo Postcard by NOKO. ca. 1915 (1907-1922 judging by stamp-box). Personal collection.
I guess I could write something. But really, this is so awesome, it needs to stand by itself.
Now this is cosplay!
(Source: beatonna)
By the 1780s masquerades had become an integral part of the social calender for London high society.
Interest in the goings on at these parties was so great that newspapers would often print a list of the characters the aristocracy had chosen to portray.
This particular list was published in the London Times on February 5, 1788, the day after the Pantheon Masquerade at the King’s Theatre.
(via modernfoppery)
