robotmonkeys-net: A deadly arsenic-green House of Worth tea gown, circa 1897, from the wardrobe of &

robotmonkeys-net:

A deadly arsenic-green House of Worth tea gown, circa 1897, from the wardrobe of Élisabeth de Caraman-Chimay, Countess Greffulhe, after whom the Duchess de Guermantes, a central character in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu was based.

Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris https://t.co/AxuBGCWQIp
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