Wedding dress (via The Met)
Design House:House of Worth (French, 1858–1956)
Date:1896
Culture:French
Medium:silk, pearl
Employing a textile design that mirrors itself from selvage to selvage, this dress is pieced into a perfectly symmetrical image at the center front. Impeccable finishing details such as this distinguish the couture garment from the countless products of the ready-to-wear market that flourished in the mid- to late nineteenth century as a result of the Industrial Revolution. The use of the textile pattern to emphasize the woman’s fashionable hourglass silhouette, achieved with the help of a steel-boned corset, further demonstrates the mastery of dressmaking technique at the House of Worth, as do the tiny hand-stitched cartridge pleats at the shoulder that create voluminous sleeves. The design of this sleeve, broad at the upper arm and fitted at the lower arm with the sleeve extending over the back of the hand, refers to sixteenth-century dress styles.
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Finally my news feed is improving
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period: *stops*
me: finally
me: *wears pretty undies again*
period: biTCH YOU THOUGHT
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on a scale of 1 to “HARRY DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIYAH” how bad was your character misinterpreted
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Fashion plate, 1900s.
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Dumbledore: Harry, what are you doing tomorrow?
Harry: Having my day ruined by whatever cryptic riddle you're about to tell me
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Fall in love with someone who wants you, who waits for you. who understands you even in the madness; someone who helps you, and guides you, someone who is your support, your hope. fall in love with someone who talks with you after a fight. Fall in love with someone who misses you and wants to be with you. Do not fall in love only with a body or with a face; or with the idea of being in love
-me when i over think things (via stay-impure)
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cedric in goblet of fire: hey, gryffindor only lost that quidditch game because harry got knocked off his broom by dementors. we should have a rematch, that's only fair
cedric in cursed child: fuck i lost one game? welp i'm off to be a death eater and kill perfectly nice people, see you fucks later
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if u were a gifted/talented child who grew into an anxious adult w fragile self worth and a perfectionist streak that makes u abandon things if ur not good at them immediately clap ur hands
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