There’s even more pictures, from the second page of the link:
Never before have I so deeply wanted to live in the world of someone’s artwork. Those pictures with the human just burying their entire upper body in the floof, they speak to me on a spiritual level.
Recycling gowns is hardly new. It has been in practice in film and television since its invention and has been a common practice in theatre productions for hundreds of years. In addition, it is also sometimes seen in paintings. Many artists have been known to reuse clothing that they painted. For example, a yellow housecoat trimmed in ermine appears in several paintings by Vermeer. Sometimes the artist owned the actual garment they painted (almost certainly in Vermeer’s case), while other times it may have been an example from a woman’s magazine that they copied over and over again.
This beautiful striped Victorian gown is especially interesting because it is actually based on a gown from works of art by French artist James Tissot. The reproduction gown itself has been seen in at least five productions. It was first worn on Rya Kihlstedt as Lizzy Elmsworth in the 1995 production of The Buccaneers. It was seen again Maite Yerro as Juliet on a movie screen in the 1996 film Evita. In 2000 it was worn by Neve McIntosh as Lucy, Lady Audley in Lady Audley’s Secret. In 2001 it was worn by Valerie Koch as Sophie Charlotte in Sophie - Sissis kleine Schwester. Lastly, it was worn by Isobel Pravda as Camille Monet in the 2006 mini-series The Impressionists.
The original gown on which the costume was based was not only painted by James Tissot - it was painted by him numerous times. Tissot was an artist who was mostly known for his paintings of women dressed in their elaborate gowns, and while it is not known if Tissot owned some of the gowns he repeatedly painted or not, the fact that his parents were both in the Fashion Industry might lead one to believe that his owning them would not have been out of the realm of possibility. In Professor Lou Taylor’s book The Study of Dress History, he writes:
Tissot reused favorite garments over periods of two or three years. Thus the notion that his 1870s paintings reflected the most up-to-date fashions may be flawed.
Five paintings in which Tissot painted this black and white gown include: The Captain and the Mate (c.1873), The Return from the Boating Trip (c.1873), Boarding the Yacht (c.1873), Still on Top (c.1874) and Holiday (c.1876).
To see a full gallery of Tissot’s paintings and the beautiful gowns they showcase, go here.
People interpret “expensive wedding” to mean “my fiance and I spent a large amount of money to throw a great celebration that was important to us” instead of “I went into debt because I have been brainwashed into thinking that if I don’t have Barbie’s Perfect Hollywood Dream Wedding™️ by age 27 I have Failed and my life is a sad joke, so I’m going to blow my savings on gilded stationary and custom napkins and have a breakdown if I think my bridesmaids aren’t treating this as the all-important, life-defining moment I need it to be and dieting so they fit in these designer dresses I picked out for them, and I need to make sure everything is Perfect because my fiance isn’t interested in helping me, and a beautiful wedding is the most important part of a good marriage…. right?”
Which is. What expensive heterosexual wedding culture is, because women are literally sold unrealistic princess fantasies from childhood that are promised to them by a predatory wedding industry and portrayed as The Key to Happiness. It’s almost as exploitative as the funeral industry.
When a drunk girl outside a club bathroom speaks… you listen. If she tells you that you’ll find love despite being hurt in the past? She’s right. If she tells you to stop being so self-aware? She’s right. They are the modern day Oracles at Delphi and must be taken at their every word
what you allow will continue, so make sure you aren’t tolerating cruelty, manipulation, unkindness, lying, etc. this isn’t a justification by any means, but people will do what they can get away with: don’t let them get away with treating you bad.
