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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A DRESS

Restored dress as worn by Ellen Terry in her 1888 portayal of Lady Macbeth.

“When Ellen starred alongside Henry Irving in Macbeth in 1888, there was not a wide choice of fabrics available in England, and Alice could not find the colours she wanted to achieve her effects. She wanted one dress to ‘look as much like soft chain armour as I could, and yet have something that would give the appearance of the scales of a serpent.’ (Mrs. J. Comyns Carr’s ‘Reminiscences’. London: Hutchinson, 1926) Mrs. Nettlship found a twist of soft green silk and blue tinsel in Bohemia and this was crocheted to achieve the chain mail effect.

The dress hung beautifully but: ‘we did not think that it was brilliant enough, so it was sewn all over with real green beetle wings, and a narrow border in Celtic designs, worked out in rubies and diamonds, hemmed all the edges. To this was added a cloak of shot velvet in heather tones, upon which great griffens were embroidered in flame-coloured tinsel. The wimple, or veil, was held in place by a circlet of rubies, and two long plaits twisted with gold hung to her knees.’

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This post is sweet, pure costumer crack. 

Wearing that many dead creatures is so Lady Macbeth.

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The Viksø helmets are a pair of horned bronze helms found in a Danish bog dated near 900bc. They are too thin to have provided useful protection, so they are probably ceremonial items.

Info and 3D view on the Danish National Museum:

http://natmus.dk/en/historisk-viden/danmark/moeder-med-danmarks-oldtid/the-bronze-age/the-viksoe-helmets/

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If we ever get to the post-apocalyptic era, I hope everyone dresses like this. Hot damn.

Why wait?? :D

I feel like I’ve reblogged this before but unf.

God these clothes are so attractive!

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Ozz On shop coordinates

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