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I Photograph Models Wearing 200 Year Old Dresses To Create Hauntingly Beautiful Images
I've always wanted to travel back in time: where fashion was elaborate, unique, and built to last.
Unfortunately for me, time travel machines aren't real.
Luckily for me, victorian dresses were truly built to last, allowing me to at least pretend to travel back in time.
My obsession with old things gets stronger every year. When I was 16, I collected vintage dresses from the 70s. When I was 20, I started collecting 100 year old film cameras and fixing them up. I'm now 22, and I've started collecting dresses as old as nearly 200 years!
You may ask: "Should something that old even be worn? Isn't it disintegrating into dust by now?" The answer to that is - it depends on the dress! I have a few wool and silk dresses that are in remarkable shape. Consumer culture back then was a lot different, and dresses were supposed to last a lifetime (clearly - they were made to last many lifetimes!).
Anyway - enjoy the victorian revival art!
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1890s Mourning Gown
1890s Mourning Gown
1870s Wool Walking Suit
1890s Mourning Gown
Gosh she is just absolutely beautiful... her face, her hair... her skin... she looks like a doll!
1890s Mourning Gown
1890s Two Piece Dress
1840s Gown
Oh THAT whole Lizzy vibe is very present in this picture! Now where is Mr. Darcy? And how about her hair?!
1870s Wool Walking Suit
1890s Two Piece Dress
It's actually just water!! The editing made it look much worse than it was haha - there's also a HUGE ink stain down the front of this dress so it was acquired in less than perfect shape haha!
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1870s Wool Walking Suit
1890s Mourning Gown
1890s Mourning Gown
1870s Wool Walking Suit
1890s Two Piece Dress
Great photography, but I was looking for more than 3 dresses 😅 Awesome work anyway!
Haha apologies, my bank account limited how many I can have at once XD lol!
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Nice photography but I can’t get past the dresses. They were so wrinkled and it looked like the models were wearing modern undergarments which made the dresses not fit right. Dresses from this era were masters of construction and illusion, very structured and padded to produce a smooth, fashionable silhouette, and it just looks ill fitting and in need of a steam here
Nobody is forcing you to look at them lmao
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Great photography, but I was looking for more than 3 dresses 😅 Awesome work anyway!
Haha apologies, my bank account limited how many I can have at once XD lol!
Load More Replies... Nice photography but I can’t get past the dresses. They were so wrinkled and it looked like the models were wearing modern undergarments which made the dresses not fit right. Dresses from this era were masters of construction and illusion, very structured and padded to produce a smooth, fashionable silhouette, and it just looks ill fitting and in need of a steam here
Nobody is forcing you to look at them lmao
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