green slime be upon ye

1898-1900 Summer dress in striped cotton, with silk satin ribbon

(Mode Museum Antwerpen)

Galavant 1x05

a friend and i are watching the bbc pride and prejudice mini series and hear me out: if they ever make another live action remake, michael sheen as mr bennett and david tennant as mrs bennett

William Rothenstein (British/English, 1872–1945) • Portrait of Gladys Calthrop • 1922

Morning Dog Walk <3

Inspired by some really cool artists I've been seeing lately such as @possessedpasm and @danicalzone who do amazing things with retro style and paper textures!

By claudiadeyondesings

Get Wrecked, Caroline!

From that thing I have watched a few too many times. This is definitely how that went

The Carrick Coat

James Tissot (French, 1836-1902) • On the Ferry Waiting • c.1878 • Private collection

A Carrick or Garrick (in Great Britain) is an overcoat with three to five cape collars, worn by both men and women primarily for travel and riding, in the 19th century.

Artist unknown. Costume Parisien. Chapeau de Velours. Carrick et Guêtres de Drap., 1816. Hand-coloured engraving. London: Victoria and Albert Museum

Sources:

Fashion History Timeline

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dress

c. 1830

Silk embroidered with silk and metallic thread

The John Bright Collection

Alphonse Mucha - Flirt (1899)

“One First of April, the question had arrived from Paris in a single Latin sentence, starting off dispiritedly. “Num…?”- a particular which notoriously “expects the answer No.” Harriet, rummaging the Grammar book for “polite negatives,” replied, still more briefly, “Benigne.””

— -Gaudy Night, Dorothy L Sayers (via summersanginme)

Oooh yes… Sir Walter isn’t just conceited and vain, he used to be “remarkably handsome” in his youth and still very fine at fifty four. To give you an idea of a fine looking fifty-something:

Hugh Jackman (55 years old as of 2024)

John Hamm (52 years old as of 2024)

When Jane Austen writes: Sir Walter Elliot was now 54 years old and still really pretty“ what face comes into your mind?

I always imagined one of those 55 years old Hollywood stars who are ridiculous pretty and sure as hell had plastic surgery. I most definitely didn’t imagined… well… *looks at 1995, 2007 and Netflix*

The Galena Evening Times, Kansas, January 18, 1900

fanny price DOES get a great happy ending, fight me

like okay no, fanny does not successfully tame the Rake and reform him into a sexy sexy faithful husband. yes, we could argue all day about whether edmund bertram is underrated or a soggy biscuit of a man, but that fact is ultimately IRRELEVANT. HE is irrelevant except as like. a piece of the broader picture the ending of mansfield park only sucks if you're viewing it from the extremely narrow and shallow lens of like: the modern capital R romance, where the woman's happily-ever-after is defined by her attaining the Ideal/Most Desirable Man™. but that's not what the novel is about!

fanny price's happy ending is BEING PROVEN RIGHT AND HER WORTH ACKNOWLEDGED after putting up with YEARS of fucking bullshit despite CONSTANTLY being a better judge of character, of morals, of good sense, than literally ANYONE ELSE AROUND HER. fanny price's happy ending is her spending months going 'HMM I"M GETTING BAD VIBES' and everyone saying 'stfu fanny you don't know shit' and at the end of the novel she gets to watch everyone else either blows up their entire life as a result of ignoring The Vibes, or fall over her trying to apologize because HOLY SHIT FANNY WHY DID WE NOT LISTEN TO YOU ABOUT THOSE VIBES and people being like WE TOOK YOU SO FUCKING FOR GRANTED WE FUCKED UP'

and she is like: yes, I know this, and finally everyone else does too, and that is literally all i have ever wanted in life fanny price's happy ending is people apologizing and acknowledging her worth fanny price's happy ending is basically the equivalent of her sitting there smiling with genteel energy while her inner self is performing this dance

and honestly: i love that for her