I Hope Shein Gets Shut Down I Hope Ai Projects Get Shut Down I Hope Billionaires Go Bankrupt I Hope Public

letter to theo by vincent van gogh

need refs/inspo for period clothing?

here you go:

Medieval (9th-15th century):

10th century and earlier

Romance (1000-1250)

11th century

12th century

13th century

more 13th century

14th century

more 14th

15th century

and more 15th century

Gothic (1150-1550)

Renaissance (1520-1650)

16th & 17th century

16th century

more 16th

Tudors (1500-1550)

more Tudors

Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)

Jacobean Era (1603-1625)

17th century

more 17th century

and again

and even more

this won’t stop

Baroque (1600-1750)

Georgian Period (1714-1830):

18th century

more 18th century

18th century women’s fashion

18th century men’s fashion

Rococo (1720-1770)

Classicism (1770-1790)

children 18th-19th century

Regency Preiod (1811-1820)/ Empire (1800-1820s):

1790-1820s

more stuff on regency and georgian era

even more

that’s not enough regency

and more

how is there so much

early 19th century men’s wear

early 19th century women’s wear

Victorian Period (1837-1901):

Romantic Era (1820-1840s)

Civil War Era/1850-1860s

1870-1890s

more victorian

Edwardian Period (1901-1910):

1900-1910s

Belle Epoque (1880-1910s)

more edwardian/belle époque

Modern:

1910s-1920s [Fashion between the World Wars]

1920s

more roaring 20s

so much 20s

1920s hairstyles

1930s

1930-1940s

1930-1950s

1950s

more 50s

1960s

1960-1970s

1980s

lots of periods in one spot/fashion through centuries:

here, here, and here is almost everything (and properly ordered)

also here with lots of historic fashion magazines

historic fashion

costumes of antiquity

more historical clothing

history of fashion

more history of fashion

“vintage” clothing

historic costumes

children’s historical fashion/toys

details

historic wedding dresses

historic assecoires (hats, shoes…)

hats

masks

parasols

lots of embroidery/jewlery

it indeed is western/european centric, I’m sorry for that, but for other cultures I simply don’t have so many references

It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

im sorry but this timing is way too funny do you understand how fucking insane it is to be a jujutsu kaisen AND a bungou stray dogs fan in this day september 20th 2023. it feels like bones did this on purpose oh my god im pissing myself

A display from a smalltown second hand bookstore. What has been found in books.

Guardian News: “‘You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,’ climate activist Greta Thunberg has told world leaders at the 2019 UN climate action summit in New York.”

Donation campaigns - May 30

Below are vetted campaigns I have come across today and compiled into one list to make it easier for us to generate the best possible impact.

Donate to save Wafaa and her children

Help secure a safe future for Yusef's family

Shahad needs our help to rescue her grandmother

Bilal is trying to rescue his family and we can help him reach his goal

Hani needs our urgent help to get to safety

Nader's family is displaced and need our help

Fadi's family of 8 lost everything and we can help

Help Tala's mother get the medical treatment she urgently needs

Help save Faten and her three children

Save Maliha's family with their evacuation fund

Donate to Helpgazachildren

8 year old Yusuf needs urgent medical help

Help Yousef and his family evacuate

Renad needs our support to get her family to safety

Support Ruba's urgent request to evacuate her family

Better fundraisers master post

Help Ahmed rescue his family and children

Help Alaa by supporting her fundraiser

Donate to Ezzideen's campaign to help him and his family get to safety

Alhawa family need our help to escape the horrors

Haneen is almost halfway through to her goal to save her family

Help Marah and her family

Help Mahmoud save his parents

Laila still needs our support donating to her campaign

Support Omar continue his education

Help the Abushammala family rebuild their life

Donate to help Islam and his family

Mohammed Ayesh needs our help to escape to safety

some articles i enjoyed recently (faves are bolded) 

the genesis of blame, london review of books

the narcissism of queer influencer activists, gawker

there’s no moral imperative to be miserable, james greig

the cult of the imperfect, umberto eco

susanna clarke’s world of interiors, the new yorker

your camera roll contains a masterpiece, the new yorker

are you a baby? a litmus test, haley nahman on substack

prestige television and the moral life, article & podcast ep

how tv became respectable without getting better, current affairs

the cultural revisionism history, gawker

have we forgotten how to read critically?, dame magazine

found images, real life mag

nostalgia for nostalgia, real life mag

on internet & technology

google search is dying, dkb on substack

what lies beneath, real life mag

how the tiktok algorithm figures out your deepest desires, the wall street journal

the great offline, real life mag

nameless feeling, real life mag

i’m not there, real life mag

{Alice Oseman, Radio Silence/ Emily Palermo, from Untitled/ Franz Kafka, from Diaries/ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar/ Marya Hornbacher, Waiting/ Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. May 1922/ Mahmoud Darwish/ Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova; "The Old Portrait"/ Lyric Hunter, from "A Garden," Swallower/ Albert Camus/ Varsha/ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Meek One}