Things I Would Like to Wear

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May, 1917 Two evening gowns, no designer noted. Pinterest.

1927 Robes de Style evening dresses, left by Lanvin and there is a possibility that the one on the right is also Lanvin. Pinterest.

W H A T

COME ON

you guys really liked that last outfit post so here’s more. I’m a guy who really likes his colour scheme to be consistent… can you tell I do character design for a living… gulp

1915 c. Callot Soeurs evening gown held in the Amsterdam Museum collection.

1923 Evening gown by French Couturier Agnes. Pinterest.

This woman's dragon puppet

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

ily, menswear guy

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

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Here's a new link for purchasing purposes

Pigeon dress!!!

request: purple dresses, 1950s-1960s

2022 1.3" x 1.6" ~50,000 stitches, 76 stitches/inch 500+ hours in the making. Over 70 different colors of silk thread including thread combinations