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Based on a 1913 photo of an Armenian girl from the city of Shamakhi, Azerbaijan.
the girl from shamakhi
21 Thursday Mar 2013
Posted in Armenia, Illustration and art
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memories of my ghost sista %d
Trips me out how such ethnic dress got so ornate when it must have been near impossible to clean when it originated. Love watching period pieces for the attire…and always think how much those people must have stunk. Guess nosegays had their purpose.
Later…
Yes, the biggest challenge in Gibson’s (boo!) movie Braveheart wasn’t the British but hygiene. I suppose if you grew up that way and knew no other state of being you wouldn’t complain but I often wonder how the human race could stand the stink of their own body long enough to reproduce. Probably the reason behind the belief in old school Japan that kissing served no purpose except to spread disease and the British were so filthy that it blew their minds when the French would “make love with their face” as they called oral sex. Hurrah for soap!
Yes, but BraveHeart Gibson and lot wore the basic clothes of the peasant. I was thinking of Louis XIV, or Louis XV, or Louis the…. All those layers of fine material with brocade and adornments, wore in dirty surroundings, in sweaty summer Paris, and for who knows how long. Kept washerwomen busy, I guess.
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Too true. I suppose if your idea of wealth is that the richer you are the more outlandish and useless your clothes become would mean the French royalty were like gods unto themselves. The wigs, too, were one of those fashion items you could tell were probably always crawling with vermin. Makes me itchy just thinking about it.
Saw somewhere that the high, filly collars and wigs came into fashio right after the “discovery of Noth America” and the syphalis brought back…losing hair – get a wig…sores on neck – wear high collars. Same book followed the epidemic from the whorehouses of Portugal, where Chris and crew landed, to the edges of Russia. It was a progressive pattern.
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And wasn’t the trend to wear little stars on one’s cheek actually a way to cover up the glaring cysts that most people had back then? I secretly wonder if Edo- period’s women’s fashion of blackening their front teeth out stemmed from the fact most adults had already lost theirs and so it was only natural that a hollow mouth seemed super-sexy at the time? Eh … probably not.
The good old days, when disease and decay was the dictator of fashion. Never heard of the teeth blackening thing…something new, again…
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Foot binding in China is another one of those grotesque fashion trends them seemed to have gotten totally out of hand. Or Victorian women getting ribs removed so they could wear corsets so tight that caused them to pass out if they did anything more strenuous than sitting in one place and not breathing heavily.
I have bellydancer friends who gossip about who has had their stomach muscles surgically separated so they can roll coins up and down their torso. I know nothing.
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ugh. just … ugh. i love dancing too but not enough to mutilate myself over it. i’m sure it is an interesting coin trick in theory but … ugh.