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I cannot express how much I adore dappled shadows formed by sunlight in paintings and photography and in real life

#beautiful #art #leaves #leaf-adjacent

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Custom Dress worn by Elaine Roebuck to her Bat Mitzvah

Christian Dior

Spring 1957

“It all started when I was twelve years old and I wanted a bat mitzvah. My father said absolutely not — girls didn’t have bat mitzvahs in those days,” Roebuck tells me. “My mother rallied for me and finally my father said OK. The next thing I knew, we were on the train to Montreal to look at my dress.”

The dress in question is a silk organdy masterpiece custom designed by Monsieur Christian Dior himself. Dior did not design for children back in ‘57, but he made an exception. “Not just anyone could go in and say ‘whip me up a dress for my daughter’s Bat Mitzvah’ – that wasn’t their business,” says Dr. Alexandra Palmer, the museum’s senior fashion curator. But that’s just what Elaine’s mother, the late Molly Roebuck, did. “She had a motto: If you’re going to do something, you better do it right,” says her daughter. “And in her mind, Dior was just right.” Likely, the exception was made on account of Dior’s relationship with Holt Renfrew, the prestigious high-end retailer with exclusive rights to his collection in Canada back when it launched.

So, with the help of her friend, buyer Betty Macpherson, Roebuck commissioned the dress in Paris. It was to be modest, but fantastical enough for such a special night. After a few months of trading sketches with Dior himself, the muslin models arrived in Montreal, where Dior’s pieces were made-to-measure for the Canadian market. “The dress was dreamlike and it made me think, or maybe even feel, like a princess,” says Roebuck. The end result was a full-skirted silk organdy cocktail dress with daffodil embroidery. As it was a one off, the fabric never appeared in Dior’s collections. “I knew the dress was special, but at the same time, I didn’t think I was different from any of my friends,” she says. (Teen Vogue)

Royal Ontario Museum (Object number: 2013.68.14.1-2)

#clothesporn #fashion history #judaism #canada

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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

#a lamp #two different charging cables #an ereader #4-6 hard copy books #a water bottle #lip balm #hand cream #assorted medications #tissue box

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It has come to my attention that there is a not insignificant overlap between fans of Lord Peter Wimsey and fans of the Granada Holmes series. Those people should be aware that there is a 1978 radio play adaptation of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (adapted by Stoppard) where the title pair are played by Edwards Hardwicke and Petherbridge.

Tragically it was never released digitally, and the only way to hear it at present is a rip of the cassette release with pretty bad audio -- but it's absolutely still worth listening to!

#WAIT WHAT #edward Hardwicke #edward petherbridge

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• Wine colored lace dress with under dress.

Date: 1940

Medium: Lace

#clothesporn #waaaant

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KJ Charles's latest novel Death in the Spires is very good even by the high standard of Charles's previous work.

David Stuart Davies' first Johnny Hawke novel Forests of the Night was good enough to finish but not so good I'm likely to seek out the rest of the series. It doesn't make enough of its Blitz setting, and while the shifts between different first-person narrators and a third-person limited POV are done deftly enough that there's no confusion, they're also not distinct enough that the effect is substantially different than third-person-limited throughout. I haven't read any Dashiell Hammet but I think that's the main influence here.

Currently I'm reading Kinds of Love by May Sarton (one of several of her novels I bought free in ebook format a few years ago.) It's about individual and local history, friendship, and aging.

#books #reading

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#seaquest dsv #Kristin Westphalen #katherine hitchcock

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#reblogging for lol

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STOP. moment of gratitude for those precious times of breathing from your nostrils when you don't have a stuffy nose

#good things to think about

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Serious All-of-a-Kind Family vibes. <3 <3 <3

For a Passover story

(Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1949)

#seasonally appropriate #almost #passover #judaism #historical photos #historical photographs

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2/6 rows down. I find that especially when I'm hand quilting there's a really strong physical sense that the sandwich is transforming from a conglomeration of unrelated layers into A Quilt, and this is one of my favorite things about the process. You can feel a change in the way it handles when touched. It is well into that transformation now.

#art #sewing #things that look like leaves

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If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

#strong black tea (Assam/Irish Breakfast or chai) without milk #toast with peanut butter #second place: oatmeal #third place: yogurt and granola or other cold cereal #but always tea

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Costume designed by Gabriella Pescucci for Michelle Pfeiffer in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)

#clothesporn

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reblog to give a strawberry to the person you reblogged this from

#strawberries #strawberry

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Level 1: But is it canon?

Level 2: I can fix the canon.

Level 3: I can make the canon worse.

Level 4: I can fill the canon with small, brightly coloured frogs.

#reblogging for lol #art #puns #zaltzman would be proud

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Théâtre du Châtelet's production of Sunday in the Park with George, April 2013, starring Julian Ovenden and Sophie-Louise Dann.

#julian ovenden #stephen sondheim #to listen

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The good news is I had my license for over twenty years before I got in a fender-bender. The bad news is, last week I got in my first car accident. No injuries, car still works, but whew autobody work is expensive and the labor of organizing it is intense.

#life of kivrin