Stripped Bare

Julio Romero de Torres - Nuestra Señora de Andalucía - 1907

Carlo Socrate - Vestizione della sposa - 1934

Emanuele Cavalli - La sposa - 1934

Blizzard

Pair of mammoth tusk chukchi snow goggles - North Eastern Siberia - Early XIXth century

via Sotheby's

Bashford Dean and Ford Motor Company - American Helmet model no. 8 - 1918
via The Met

André Courrèges - Lunette' Eclipse' - White sunglasses - 1965

The Thickets of Long Ago

"Fashion has a flair for the topical, no matter where it stirs in the thickets of long ago; it is a tiger’s leap into the past,"
Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1940

Eugene Corbin - French camouflage - 1914
via Complex

Mela Koehler - Wiener Werkstaette fashion illustration - 1910-4
via The Blue Lantern

Unknown artist - French camouflage prototypes - 1914

Building Material for an Edifice

“If metaphysics claims to he made up of concepts which were ours before its advent, if it consists in an ingenious arrangement of pre-existing ideas which we utilize as building material for an edifice, if, in short, it is anything else but the constant expansion of our mind, the ever-renewed effort to transcend our actual ideas and perhaps also our elementary logic, it is but too evident that, like all the works of pure understanding, it becomes artificial.” 
Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics, 1903

Stefan Jasienski – Miss Metrópolis - 1931

Joseph Astor - Philip Johnson wearing the PPB tower as a hat - Vanity Fair - 1996

Unknown Photographer - Costumes at the Arts Ball - Hotel Astor - 1931

via Dwell

Alexander Rodchenko - Sketch for a costume for "The Sixth Part of The World" - 1931

via +acne