History Meme | 2/8 Objects: 1920’s Dresses
1920’s Dresses were lighter and brighter and shorter than ever before. Fashion designers played with fabric colors, textures and patterns to create totally new styles of dress. Evening dresses, coats and jackets were often trimmed with fur. Hemlines rose for most of the decade but dropped slightly toward the end. Shoes and stockings assumed a greater prominence now that they were more visible. Silk stockings in all the colors of the rainbow, often with patterns, were designed to match the coordinated outfits of stylish women. (x)
This is what I don’t get - Women are impure because males have touched them. Who’s the dirty one here?
Comment on Jezebel article “Female ‘Purity’ Is Bullshit” (via albinwonderland)
I know you’re all feeling the darkness here, today, but there’s no reason to give in…there is an answer that will open the door.
White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you don’t listen to, but they’re fine with wearing headdresses from cultures they know and care nothing about.
oh damn
Many efforts are made to hide it, but these sons of the Pope’s are consumed by the envy for each other. Mantuan ambassador in Rome, March 1497 (x)
