The moon is such a creeper

This photoset seems slightly random, yet is an accurate catalog of most of my interests.

lostsplendor:

Riverbank Maiko, Japan c. 1920s (by Blue Ruin1)

ornamentedbeing:

French Underwear, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916

For the next theme post would you rather see Victorian-Edwardian ladies déshabillé  or clothing in La couleur noire?

lostsplendor:

Kitten and Saucer, 1958 (via National Media Museum)

lostsplendor:

French Wartime Postcard Reading “We know how to defend against the invader”, c. WWI

elcinediario:

The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)

ornamentedbeing:

Bathing Costume, c. 1916

This is on my “to-make” list

lostsplendor:

Bathing Beauties in Meiji Era Japan, c. 1900 (via Retronaut)

lostsplendor:

Tokyo, Late 19th Century via the New York Public Library

love2sepia:

A very dapper gentleman and his lady. Adler and Adler Studio Collection, Detroit MI.

lostsplendor:

Views of Japan, Late 1880s via The New York Public Library

softfilm:

Chinese-American Shipbuilder

“Los Angeles, Calif. — Miss Ethel Mildred Lee, 23-year-old girl born in this country of Chinese parents, is shown at her job as an electrician-helper at the Los Angeles yards of the California Shipbuilding Corporation, where she has worked for almost two years. Extra incentives to help the war effort are two brothers in the U.S. Army and one in the Navy yard at Honolulu, Hawaii. Miss Lee, who’s 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 98 pounds, buys $100 worth of War Bonds a month.” — January 20, 1944

lostsplendor:

Soviet Union Metro, Russia c. 1953 (via Retronaut)

I really want to know what is going on in the upper corner