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Salvatore Postiglione (1861–1906), Dante and Beatrice (detail)

Victoria Museum in Kyiv

Albany Institute of History & Art

Evening dress, 1895

I was considering just re-wearing my Titania costume from last year if I can’t think of anything else ✨🧚🏻‍♀️

There's a lot more, but it does confirm my feeling that, by depicting the fairy godmother as this plain, ordinary looking, servant-dressed old fat woman carving the pumpkin, Gustave Doré was purposefully subverting the fairy godmother imagery popular in France at the time. (To fully confirm this one would have to check at the illustrations in books too, those published before Doré's edition, but I suspect we would have similar results as the "elderly fairy godmother" seems to be more of a British visual tradition, tied to how she looks more witch-like when the Brits draw her?)

Jean Paul Gaultier, A/W 2006.

Grand Rapids Public Museum

Hillwood Museum

Dior Makeup Ad (1971)

Victoria and Albert Museum

Kavya Potluri

Fairy costume for a 1954 production of Oberon at the Opéra National de Paris, designed by Jean-Denis Malclès (via).

Augusta Auctions

Palais Galliera