 | | 01/03/2012 08:32
Sur le blog Rosalind Jana
The Appeal of a Tea Dress
I, like many others, have a tendency to idolise the past. For the past is present in the methods of capturing and continuing: burned onto celluloid; cut into the fabric of vintage dresses; recorded onto the grooves of a vinyl record. These visions of decades known only by our grandparents or great grandparents are probably as realistic as the Hollywood films that perpetuate the desire for ‘times gone by’. The fifties may have beckoned forward Dior’s ‘New Look’, but women’s rights and civil liberties were a good ten years away from gaining prominence. Similarly, the landscape in Thomas Hardy’s novels is rich and evocative, but much as I would like to visit...
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