I had a fantastic, ultra productive three-day weekend. Ran a lot of errands, did a lot of cleaning, and even made the drive all the way up to the Skagit River Valley (northeast of Seattle) to go to the tulip festival! (I'll post pictures in the near future...)
For today, I had planned to focus on tulips... but during my search for photographs, I came upon Flickr's newest project, The Commons.
The Commons is a place to view the world's public photography archives, and add whatever information you may know about specific photos, therefore enriching the collection. Maybe I'm late in discovering this, but it's just too cool not to share! If you don't have a Flickr/Yahoo account, I would highly suggest signing up just to access this amazing collection.
The Gullick Family, New South Wales, circa 1909These outfits are gorgeous!
Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, circa 1942(this title is a bit misleading, using "camp" for "prison"... amazing how they could still smile and look oh so fashionable during such a horrible time in history)
The Carandini Ladies, one of Australia's first opera performing families, circa 1875These dresses are amazing!
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Don't usually see colored photos from WW2...quite interesting as documentary photos. Loved the dog photo from France...so unusual and a bit surreal...
ReplyDeletegreat! thanks. so, how do you do that "hair tucked up in the handkerchief" thing?? i'm going to the beach in a few weeks & i have all these fun vintage vera scarfs... that would be so fun!
ReplyDeleteYou'd think that as a cancer survivor I would know how to tuck my hair up like that, but sadly I don't. I bet you could figure it out by combing all of your hair up on top of your head and essentially making a big bun on top near your forehead.
ReplyDeleteTry to stay away from this look though: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XAePxwGya7E/R0q_VeiZQhI/AAAAAAAAAgo/5lt7ySkVz2A/s400/sumo1.jpg
:)