Charles James ball gown ca. 1949-1950 via The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
An unrelenting feed of all the shiny things I find on the web, possibly to coalesce into some greater purpose in the future. I am interested in: Neo-Victorian, Gothic, and Lolita fashion, fatshion and FA, feminism, pretty things, books and info sci, and pretty much all things nerdy. I blog at Ruffles Not Diets