Apropos.
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Tintin’s far too late for it – that looks like 1930s-50s. More like this:
(The sleeves you can see in the photo are false oversleeves, which is why they’re so long.)
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By the looks of it, she’s dreaming of a white-power Christmas.
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as is typical of such pictures, the photo links back to pinterest, and thence to an inactive tumblr… Yes, it was displayed as part of a travelling exhibition, but there isn’t any commentary.
However, I was able to find this, which describes some of the peculiar features of Russian court dress, including the front placket and the odd sleeves,
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Beautiful dresses, but the corsets required must have been painful.
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Modern day corset wearers say that corsets are comparable to bras in terms of discomfort. One of the fashion historians I follow has worn a brace since childhood because of spinal issues, and she says her corsets are about the same – once you get used to them it feels weird not to wear them.
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I guess I saw this and made assumptions about organ rearrangements:
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That pose makes the subject look thinner – it’s still used for that today in modeling and on the red carpet.
And the photographer may have since since touching up:
Also, well, clothing moves body parts around today. Consider “support” garments and what they do to bodies today. Or shoes, for that matter.
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For some reason, a lot of photography these days seems based on commercial work. All of my friends in Alabama have these photo shoots of their children that look like they are modeling clothing instead of the photographer focusing on capturing the personality of the subject.
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Okay, this is something I heard…a US ambassador asking State Dept. employees what the difference is between the CIA and the NSA.
I actually staggered a bit in the kitchen when I heard it.
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The “difference between the NSA and the CIA” is not necessarily a dumb question. Of course, the more interesting answers are likely to be classified, and hence not fodder for Morning Joe.
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Um, isn’t it, though, if it’s asked by an Ambassador who is your boss?
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There’s the reality (to the extent that a bureaucracy is knowable)
There’s the US Public Position
There’s what’s been gleaned from non classified sources,.
Part oaf the ambassadors job is to defend (or explain) the public position in the face of other sources–wikileaks, snowden, various spy novels.
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You did that on purpose!
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Goodness, someone has no sense of humor, no appreciation of flawed characters, nor love for fantasy. IMO.
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I respect you, but ye gods I hate that film. I spent the whole time yelling, “why don’t they just ----” at the TV set.
Fortunately the friend I was watching it with had already seen it.
(She thought it would reduce my holiday stress levels. Instead it gave me flashbacks and made me hate the holidays more than ever.)
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Interesting – it’s one of my favorites, as is Richard Curtis, the writer. Because I thought the columnist made so many points I disagreed with, I had to link it here. My main point would be that this film manages in two hours to show the many types of love–love across a language barrier, father’s love for his son, boy for his first love, husband’s grief for a lost wife, sister’s love for an ill brother, wife’s (stoic) love for her straying husband, unremitted love of an extremely shy guy for a recently married friend. And indeed the purely sexual attraction of a woman for her boss (and vice versa), and arrested adolescent attraction for young women. And so on. I guess I really don’t mind flawed characters and ridiculous situations–they’re at the heart of romantic comedies.
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A lot of those are unhealthy attachments. The sister getting stalked by her hospitalized brother jumped out at me at the time, because I was still recovering from a major long-term case of caretaker syndrome. (Nothing like having to arrange last-minute coverage of a class because when you called to check up on your partner he threatened to kill himself.)
And that’s not getting into the rest, which I won’t, because you like the film.
Dressing it up as a feel-good comedy doesn’t make it so.
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I used to love the movie. Over the years, I came to detest the messages for women in it. I think this film nearly fails the Bechdel test, and only because of some mother/daughter Christmas pageant interactions. It’s a clever format, great actors giving it their all, and the overall message is uplifting. It’s just hard to see the women give up so much just to get a man. The scene in Milwaukee, though is hilarious. The actresses in it rewrote the scene.
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