Dress ca. 1842 via The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christian Dior “Nuit d’Aout” ca. 1954 via The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christian Dior “Belgique” ca. 1957 via The Victoria & Albert Museum
-What’s the matter, mamma? Why do you keep winking at me?
- What am I to do? - Wink at you? Why should I wink at you, child? What a notion! Why should I be winking at my own daughter, pray? But now you ask, it puts me in mind. I do have something I would speak to you about. Come, come with me. And you, Mary. Come!
(via theotherausten)
