#edwardian period

Postcard bride and groom.

Look at those beautiful “feather-like” embellishments.  © Augusta Auctions

You can’t love any era without simultaneously loving its architecture.

Western girls in the Edwardian period dressed like geisha, compared with young girls in Japan (not quite old enough to be maiko), dated about the very early 1920s. 

marcuscrassus:

William McGregor Paxton - Tea Leaves, 1909

archimaps:

View from Pont Alexandre III onto the International Pavilions at the World’s Fair in 1900, Paris

Come to the dark side - we have style. Another lavish portrait painting by Giovanni Boldini. 

A racist time. One people. Many walks of life. 

We as a society may have changed dramatically, but our best friends are just as furry and as adorable now as they were back then. :)

Pleated dresses and stylish overcoats in 1915. Catalogue is unknown, possibly from Sears.