The Gentleman Aunt

It harms your lungs and it’s especially bad for children (and pets!) or anyone with health problems. There are all kinds of chemicals in that smoke. It’s not only trees that are burning. The heat already makes it harder to breath. This makes it worse.

If any of you are experiencing it, feel free to tell about it in the comments. 💚

The sharp edge of an era

Images: Passing Fashions: Reading Female Masculinities in the 1920s

Image 1: Eine Frau modelt Jeanne Lanvins Version des Garçonne-Looks, 1925. Image 2: Jane Heap, photographed in Paris by Berenice Abbott, 1927. Image 3: “Garçonnes,” 1922. Paris, Palais Galliera–musée de la Mode; found on the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection.

Image 1: February 1925: British actress of stage and screen Edna Best (1900 - 1974) as Fay Collen in the play 'Spring Cleaning' at St Martins Theatre in London. Image 2: Edna Best by Dorothy Wilding, c. 1925.

Image 1 and 2: Le Grand Tailleur, No. 181 and 184; both 1926.

Image 1: Postcard of German film actress Elga Brink, c. mid-to-late 1920s. Image 2: Cover of Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, No. 46, 13 November 1927; found in Women in the Weimar Republic by Helen Boak, pg. 270. Image 3: Publicity shot of German actress Ruth Landshoff in Das Leben; November 1929.

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