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When I said Court Costume I wasn’t only talking about Western costumes.

Photos at the Kyoto museum of a mannequin wearing Heian era costume. 2008 is the 1000 year anniversary of the ‘Tale of Genji’.

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I confess that I only study Western costume so I will just put the caption that came with the bottom photo here: Formal wear for a lady, with a design of a seashore. Muromachi period, 14th century, Kyoto National Museum

Edit: I apologize if that’s not correct but that is the information that came with the photo. One of my followers had this to add: ‘Properly known as Junihitoe. Not sure where you got the Muromachi period from, the Heian period is 794-1185 CE’.

ornamentedbeing:

Ceremonial Court Dress 
Olga Bulbenkova’s Workshop, St Petersburg 
Russia. Late 19th - early 20th century
Silk, silver and gold thread, imitation pearls, metal, tulle, brocade and satin; embroidered. L.: bodice 39, skirt 153, train 330 cm 
Source of Entry:   State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR, Leningrad (before 1917 in the Winter Palace). 1941

Ceremonial Court Dresses of a Lady-in-Waiting to Imperial Court 
St Petersburg 
Russia. Second half of the 19th century
Velvet, satin, gilded metal thread; embroidered. L.: skirts 127 and 115 cm, trains 270 and 252 cm 
Source of Entry:   State Museum of Ethnography of Peoples of the USSR, Leningrad. 1941

Ceremonial Court Dress of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna 
Olga Bulbenkova’s Workshop, St Petersburg 
Russia. Late 19th - early 20th century
Silk with rep weave, imitation pearls and fringe; embroidered.L.: bodice 39, skirt 103, train 300 cm 
Source of Entry:   State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR, Leningrad (before 1917 in the Winter Palace). 1941

Ceremonial Court Dress of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna 
Olga Bulbenkova’s Workshop, St Petersburg 
Russia. 1896 
Satin, silver and silk thread; embroidered. L.: bodice 38, skirt 170, train 403 cm 
Source of Entry:   State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR, Leningrad (before 1917 in the Winter Palace). 1941

State Hermitage Museum

ornamentedbeing:

I am in my final year studying Costume Interpretation at Wimbledon College of Art in London. In our third year we are assigned three major projects.

The first project will be displayed at the opening of ‘In Fine Style’ at The Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace. More information about that project can be found in this post here.  Unfortunately my first and third costumes are still not mine to share but I can happily share with you details about the second costume.

The project was called Ordinary Lives. Part of the assignment was to have this costume completed in six weeks. Unfortunately on the last day of term I started over from WWI and choose to create an 1860s mourning gown which was my very first choice in the beginning.  

Why mourning you might ask? I was born in a small town in Tennessee that has direct ties to the Civil War and as a child I often came across items associated with Victorian Mourning in the antique stores. As I grew up my mother encouraged this curiosity. During my breaks when I visit my parents I work with The Woodruff-Fontaine House in Memphis, Tennessee on preserving their amazing costume collection and helping with their exhibitions.  Our assignment was to find an image of an everyday person and to recreate their clothing. When I came across Miss Maggie Webber in her second stage of mourning she spoke to me. 

I will be discussing the unique features on her undergarments a little later but for now you can see those images here. 

All of the long stitches on Maggie’s costume were made by machine but everything else was completed by hand. I am very fond of piping which is reflected in the hand piped armbands, the swiss waist, and neckline of Maggie’s collar. The trim on Maggie’s collar is from an extant costume. According to the dealer the trim came from a shattered 1863 mourning bodice. I find it very fitting that 150 years later it will once again grace a mourning garment. The veil was done by hand and took one and a half episodes of Criminal Minds to complete. The swiss waist was a bit of a challenge simply because I ended up creating my own pattern. 

In total, this costume has taken seventeen days to complete. To date I feel that it is one of my strongest pieces and I am very pleased with the outcome. Even though the life of Maggie Webber will forever be shrouded in mystery it is my hope that by recreating her gown I have made sure her memory continues on.

fuckyeahvintageillustration:

‘Stories from the Pentamerone’ by Giambattista Basile, edited by E. F. Strange, illustrated by Warwick Goble. Published 1911 by Macmillan & Co., London.

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Ice Caves Around the World

Ice caves come in two forms. A cave formed entirely of ice is actually called a glacier cave and as the name implies, forms in glaciers. Water runs through or under the glacier and forms a cave.

The other type of ice cave can be any cave type (limestone, lava tube, etc.) that has ice in it year round. These caves trap cold air. Water entering the cave freezes and stays frozen year round.

Glacier caves can be found in the Pacific Northwest and ice caves are found in many locations where temperatures drop below freezing. Once cold air enters the cave, it generally stays there.

1. Iceland
2. Russia
3. France
4. Antarctica
5. Iceland
6. Russia
7. Iceland
8. Iceland