Oh, another thing about historical corsets — iron corsets from the sixteenth century. Not very forgiving, eh? D:

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lola-vintage:

just look at these darlings!

adore-vintage:

Vintage 1920s Fashion! These gals look amazing!

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lostsplendor:

B-59 Bedroom (via Interiors of the Titanic, 1912 | HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT)

EXXXTREEEEME FASHION

gotta throw some sharks and dinosaurs and lasers on that thing

I came across a series of photos on Wikimedia from the Arbeitsschutzmuseum, or the Industrial Safety Museum in Charlottenburg, Berlin, taken between 1930 and 1931. Unfortunately, all the information I could find about it was in German, and my ability to understand German is limited to Google Translate. What I gleaned from the captions on the photos was that the museum used skeleton specimens to demonstrate good posture and work safety practices.

welovepaintings:

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (Detail)
Oil on canvas
1885-1886
153.67 x 173.99 cm
(5’ x 5’ 8½”)
Tate Gallery (London, United Kingdom)

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“John Singer Sargent is considered the last great generalist, easily mastering Impressionism, classic portraiture, landscape, water color, murals, and even sculpture. An American-born painter, he became the darling of Paris, and, at the height of his fame, suddenly devoted himself to landscape art, much to the dismay of Europe’s high society who were all vying for portrait sittings with him. Sargent painted two U.S. presidents, the new barons of business, war generals, and other cultural artists, just as passionately as he painted gypsies, street children, fishing boats, and his sleeping friends. During WWI, Sargent worked on the front line to document the atrocities of war.”

Art.com

“The Queen’s Dominions at the End of the Nineteenth Century”

demons:

Seemingly undaunted by the fact that his store front was blasted during the night by a German air raid, a London shopkeeper opened up the following morning proclaiming on a self-made sign that it was all “business as usual”.