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Kodachrome by Volkmar Wentzel.
From “Building a New Austria,” National Geographic, February, 1959.

Paper frills and fancies tax the skill and imagination of fashion students preparing for a moonlight show on the grounds of Schloss Hetzendorf, their school home in Vienna. Here, aided by one of the world’s largest libraries on dress style, young women study design, art, and textiles together with the standard academic subjects.

Kodachrome by Volkmar Wentzel.

From “Building a New Austria,” National Geographic, February, 1959.

Paper frills and fancies tax the skill and imagination of fashion students preparing for a moonlight show on the grounds of Schloss Hetzendorf, their school home in Vienna. Here, aided by one of the world’s largest libraries on dress style, young women study design, art, and textiles together with the standard academic subjects.

12 May 2013 » Permalink Comments (View)

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"Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial."

— Fashion is a Feminist Issue: Greta Christina (via wildthicket)

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01 May 2013 » Permalink Comments (View)

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bobbycaputo:

Astronaut Fashion: Spacesuits Through the Years

Imagining what the iconic picture of Buzz Aldrin on the moon might look like if he weren’t wearing a space suit can be stomach churning when you think about all of the elements that the personal space ship protects against. Without the pressurised gas to maintain internal pressure, all of the gases in his body would expand at a rapid rate, causing his blood to boil, and he would have no oxygen to breathe. NASA has a great interactive that shows a friendlier cartoon version where Andy the Astronaut demonstrates what would happen to a human in space without protection, then you can take a virtual tour of the space suits that have made history. Enjoy watching the evolution of the space suit as you scroll through this collection.

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28 April 2013 » Permalink Comments (View)

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mclobstah replied to your post: I got pretty excited when I got home and…

I’m watching Fringe right now! I wish I had fancy beer and Easter candy to go with it.

I will supply the candy, beer, and I’ll even bring the waffle iron if you supply safe teleportation. (I’m not using Walter’s teleporter, too many horrible side effects. although, the “Invisible Man” look would be a good one for me. )

Since that post I’ve made my way into season 2. the rewatch is going well. I still love Walter and Olivia and Peter so much.