Une fille facile (An Easy Girl, 2019)
Rita Moreno photographed by Loomis Dean for LIFE magazine, 1954.
A pair of young women by the fountain in Trafalgar Square, London, 1953. Photograph by Alex Dellow.
To fool the flu, during a epidemic in 1937, movie kisses were rehearsed behind antiseptic masks. Since each kiss must be rehearsed about 20 times before the cameras turn, it was said that four out of five flu germs would be pre-vented from spreading. Of course, these masks were taken off when the camera was rolling. Stanley Morner and Betty Furness are shown here.
Study of Heads, Albert Besnard, 1899, Cleveland Museum of Art: Prints
Size: Sheet: 28 x 20 cm (11 x 7 7/8 in.); Plate: 16 x 12 cm (6 5/16 x 4 ¾ in.) Medium: etching and aquatint
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964) dir. Jacques Demy
young cow in cosmos /acrylic and crayon on illustration board
A couple walking in London wearing smog masks on a foggy day, 1953. Photograph by Monty Fresco.
Anna Karenina & Alexei Vronsky in Anna Karenina. Vronsky story (tv mini-series, Russia, 2017)
On of the things that I learned in high school, which was just one of those facts that was just kind of like, “Yeah?” but is also one of those facts that you rarely see represented, that it does sort of startle into this idea of “wait, is that right.” Men absolutely helped their wives and lovers dress, especially in times when dress had become complicated enough that women could not get dressed alone (ties and buttons that had to fasten in the back for one reason or another, for example). If a woman didn’t have a servant to help her dress, and most women did not, it was the job of her husband once she was married.
This leads to the interesting trope of a husband discovering his wife’s lover’s handiwork, for example in this 1840 illustration from Paris le Soir. The caption reads: “That’s funny! This morning I made a knot in this lace, and tonight there’s a bow!“
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Do any of you realise how much I love this. My definition of peak romance has shifted around this.
My dream is now to have my lover zip up my skirt around my tucked in shirt, and kiss me as we button up each other’s jackets or blazers.
In the late 18th century, lovers exchanging tiny portraits of one of their eyes, and wearing them mounted on jewelry.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl 2015 | dir. Marielle Heller