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The Marriage Proposal by Albert B Wenzell, 1900’s US

The Marriage Proposal by Albert B Wenzell, 1900’s US

Portrait of a Woman by Apollon Mokritsky, 1841, Kaluga Art Museum EDIT: Had to include this response by there-is-no-box because I thought it was great. I almost scrolled past this, but something about it caught me off guard. I think it’s her eyes. They’re looking straight at you and they’re not coy or modest or deferential. She’s looking straight at you; you, personally. And she looks like she’s thinking about something, something other than “here you may gaze at my beauty.” She just seems so active when women are so often portrayed as passive

Portrait of a Woman by Apollon Mokritsky, 1841, Kaluga Art Museum

EDIT: Had to include this response by there-is-no-box because I thought it was great.

I almost scrolled past this, but something about it caught me off guard.

I think it’s her eyes. They’re looking straight at you and they’re not coy or modest or deferential. She’s looking straight at you; you, personally. And she looks like she’s thinking about something, something other than “here you may gaze at my beauty.” She just seems so active when women are so often portrayed as passive

Photo of Blanche Bates, ca 1894 US (Milwaukee)

Photo of Blanche Bates, ca 1894 US (Milwaukee)

Photo of Lina Abarbanell, ca 1890’s Berlin

Photo of Lina Abarbanell, ca 1890’s Berlin

Photo of Arlette Dorgere, 1900’s

Photo of Arlette Dorgere, 1900’s

Fashion designer Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon in a cutting-edge evening dress, 1910 The press portrayed Lucile and her husband as heartless aristocrats who bribed the crew in their lifeboat to ignore people freezing in the water after Titanic sank, supposedly because they were afraid that the lifeboat would be swamped.  This story is generally considered today to be the result of a couple checks taken in the wrong context.  Read more here.

Fashion designer Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon in a cutting-edge evening dress, 1910

The press portrayed Lucile and her husband as heartless aristocrats who bribed the crew in their lifeboat to ignore people freezing in the water after Titanic sank, supposedly because they were afraid that the lifeboat would be swamped.  This story is generally considered today to be the result of a couple checks taken in the wrong context.  Read more here.

Dresses for women and girls, 1870 US, Godey’s Lady’s Book

Dresses for women and girls, 1870 US, Godey’s Lady’s Book

Dress, 1802 UK, Ladies’ Magazine I love the flower details

Dress, 1802 UK, Ladies’ Magazine

I love the flower details

Evening or dinner dress, 1906 New York, Lord & Taylor (ad in Burr-McIntosh Monthly)

Evening or dinner dress, 1906 New York, Lord & Taylor (ad in Burr-McIntosh Monthly)

Evening dresses, 1928 UK, Woman’s Journal

Evening dresses, 1928 UK, Woman’s Journal

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