On sugar and twirling

From a surviving fragment of The Rogue Song (1930).

Berlin inmediatly after the Weimar Republic, 1935.

Reserved: 1950s Light Green Chiffon Embroidered Apron by BloomersAndFrocks (24.00 USD) http://ift.tt/1p26JpL

La dame aux Camélias

Romaine Brooks, “Una, Lady Troubridge” (1924), oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum

(via Hyperallergic)

Desiree Lubovska Marcia Mishkin Stein 1918

Shirley Maclaine takes a break while filming ‘What A Way To Go’ (1964).

Legs, legs, legs!

We’re celebrating Siblings Day with these matching dresses worn by the Stetson sisters, granddaughters of the founder of Stetson hats. The sisters enjoyed dressing alike, so when Ann, age eighteen, chose a pink tulle dress for her 1927 debut party, Elizabeth, age twenty, had the same model made in aqua.

“La Belle Rose” Dress, 1927, by Madame Meeley, Philadelphia

Josephine Baker.

Portuguese magazine Ilustração, No. 116, October 16 1930.

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse - Reaching for the ballet shoe (detail)

1. Silent film actress Aileen Pringle, as Zara in “The Mystic”, costumed by Erté, 1925.

2. "Ziegfeld model"

3. The marchesa Casati, dressed as “Light” for a Paris ball, costume by Worth, 1922.

4. Martha Pierre as “Candlelight”, photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1921.

5. Backstage at the Viennese revue “Alles aus Liebe”, 1928.