“This is me when I’m all by my lonesome. Maybe it’s just a hold-over from my modelling days, when I had to dress to the nines whether I felt like it or not - but I just don’t like to doll up for my own admiration.”
Harper’s Bazaar May 1943 - photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Lauren Bacall wearing a dress by Maurice Rentner
Joan Bennett, 1930s
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“You little fool. Tears are not a woman’s only weapon. You’ve got another one between your legs, and you’d best learn to use it. You’ll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.”
One day we’ll reveal the truth,
that one will die before he gets there.
And if you’re still bleeding, you’re the lucky ones,
cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone.
how many times am I to be ordered to marry the man sitting next to me at dinner?
Irene Castle in Madeleine Vionnet, c. 1922
Cliffs of Moher, Ireland (by sieradzka)
Can I live here?!
Dress
Jean-Philippe Worth, 1912
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