The ideal of beauty in the 16th century is epitomized by Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus: blonde hair, pale translucent skin through which the blue veins are clearly seen, and an enticing bosom. Wealthy women spent a great deal of time and money achieving the look of attractiveness most desired by the society of the… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Beauty 1533
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Vintage Friday: Sisters 1958
Flashback to 1958 with my sister in high school and me in primary school. Those who have sisters know how vital they are, how irreplaceable. We lost Marcella in 2004, and it just doesn’t seem possible that was ten years ago. She married when I was still little, and I remember moping beneath the restaurant counter, missing… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Sisters 1958