The must have fashion accessories for this season: 1. This high collar from Paris concedes a bit of a V-neck opening in front. 2. Spanish hair comb in blond shell with green brilliants. 3. French brooch embroidered in silk with a safety pin closure at back. 4. Narrow ribbon watch fobs from Paris. A Paris [...]
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All posts for the month July, 2011
Trifles that Perfect the Costume
Posted by victoria on July 31, 2011
http://callmevictorian.com/40/trifles-that-perfect-the-costume/
Little Talk On Engaged Couples
The little winged god Cupid, armed with his deadly bow and arrow, and aiming here, there, and everywhere his deestructive darts, has, we are fain to believe, the fatal power of rendering his victims blind, so that they have no longer any sense of proportion, and ofttimes make themselves ridiculous in the eyes of clearer-sighted [...]
Posted by victoria on July 31, 2011
http://callmevictorian.com/28/little-talk-on-engaged-couples/
Free Vintage Papers
This website far far hill has a beautiful selection of vintage paper and victorian images to use for digital scrapbooking.
Posted by victoria on July 27, 2011
http://callmevictorian.com/25/free-vintage-papers/
Dancing
If a lady should civilly decline to dance with you, and you chance to see her dancing afterward, do not be offended by it.
Posted by victoria on July 10, 2011
http://callmevictorian.com/22/dancing/
Privilege of Marriage
Rules from Thomas Paine’s Utopia – I don’t think anyone would be eligible for marriage today: “Their women are not married before eighteen nor their men before two-and- twenty, and if any of them run into forbidden embraces before marriage they are severely punished, and the privilege of marriage is denied them unless they can [...]
Posted by victoria on July 10, 2011
http://callmevictorian.com/13/privilege-of-marriage/
Proposing as a fine art
Man proposes, but oh how bunglingly, how inartisticly, he does it. The large number of proposals result from words spoken by men; and how many more would result if the fine art of proposing was better known. No 1. The Casual Proposal This is the most common, unplanned type of proposal. A man mentioning as [...]
Posted by victoria on July 10, 2011
http://callmevictorian.com/8/proposing-as-a-fine-art/