I owe you a black eye and two (2) kisses

Blue and Gold Beaded Evening Dress

c. 1926

French

older women allowed to have a story outside of the fairy godmother trope or being a mere caretaking accessory to another character

girlfail characters

women who stand on business and dump the pathetic loser bf

non-traditionally feminine women who bond with traditionally feminine women instead of putting them down (and the other way around)

women who take charge of their destiny

women whose happy end doesnt involve romance and whose romantic life is not centered much

strong but warm and empathetic women

queer women with a story beyond exploring their queerness

soft black women

female mentors who dont fall into the caretaker role but also aren’t unnecessarily cruel

grumpy, taciturn women

fun, flirty, seductive women whose personality is not treated as a promiscuous flaw to be fixed

weird and off putting women

tall, feminine women who are not othered or treated as less feminine for their height

short, serious women who are not infantilised and taken seriously

women in stem

female antagonists whose antagonistic behavior is not sexualised or motivated by being wronged first. just an evil, brutal person

women of color who are neither the ‘subservient damsel in distress who needs to be freed by the white man’ nor the ‘oriental, tempting beauty who seduces the white man with a dagger, a smirk, and a cocky one liner’

Ensemble

c. 1958-1962

by Balenciaga