Alexander McQueen fall 1998 rtw.
Thierry Mugler 1980 Collection
this is my reminder to myself to make a pinned post with a tag list that links to Google site searches of the tag as well as the Tumblr tag link
sorry for the tag spam, these are just the most used tags on my blog
Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair, 1995.
House of Worth, c. 1893-95. Red silk velvet.
“Severe corsetting falling at the natural waist, a flaring skirt, and the return of gigot sleeves constituted a fin-de-siècle extremism. The engorgement of sleeves and skirt made this extreme constriction seem even more exaggerated in the context of the bulbous shapes surrounding the ideal, hard, narrow waist. The style was maintained well into the twentieth century as a flattering stage effect by actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt.
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