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edwardian hand tinted postcard

“Natalie” - 1900 - (Via)

“Anna” - 1904 - (Via)

Mary Pickford in Through the Back Door (1921)

Tamara Karsavina as Columbine in ‘Carnaval’, by Bassano Ltd, 27 June 1919

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” - Anne of Green Gables

Pauline Starke (January 10, 1901 – February 3, 1977) was an American silent-film actress born in Joplin, Missouri. She made her acting debut appearing as a dance extra in D.W. Griffith’s film Intolerance in 1916. You can visit her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6125 Hollywood Blvd.

Dress, ca 1910-1920?, Silk.  Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, Gift of Alice Jones, N0319.1948.  

Evening dresses, circa 1920s.

Credits Ballet de l'Opéra De Paris

Modo de volar Francisco de Goya 1816 Museu Fundacion Juan March, Mallorca

The Fairy, 1935

Alice White

Majestic Mode: Jennifer Pugh wears a regal billowing sleeveless gown made of mousseline de soie embroidered with royal blue patterns and frosted with crystallised jewels along with a puffy short silk jacket both from Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2005 finished with opulent dangling diamond pendant earrings, necklace, and a headpiece atop her bouffant queenly hairstyle, for the editorial ‘So Splendid And Magic’ which was photographed by Paolo Roversi for Vogue Italia March 2005 (couture supplement). via.

Dovima modeling an evening gown by Jole Veneziani in a photo by Richard Avedon for Vogue, Milan, 1958

ab. 1880 Frederick Leighton - The Misses Stewart Hodgson