femina impudens

finally some good news

Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express (1932)

Sharmeelee (1971) dir. Samir Ganguly

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

you know those like, adhesive corset bras that have ads all over instagram? they’re apparently over 100 years old

“Woven celluloid and cotton bust improver, 1890s. Cream coutille having round tan cups of celluloid woven with cotton thread, brass eyelets lacing with brass tipped cotton, filled with cotton batting”

versus

“Women Silicone Adhesive Stick on Gel Push-Up Bras Backless Strapless Drawstring Corset Invisible Bra Sexy Lady Strapless Bra Invisible Underwear Oversized Size Wrapped Breast”: who wore it best

From Afghanistan: September 2013, one of 34 photos. Here, a man washes his horse in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 4, 2013. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)

Unless you’re wearing a potato sack and living in a storage container, you’re spending way too much!

BRIE LARSON CHANNELING LESLEY GORE SINGING NICKI MINAJ JUST TRANSPORTS ME TO ANOTHER PLANET

Animation art from DreamWorks’ THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (1998).

More later!

So beautiful

Michiko Nishiwaki (西脇 美智子) My Lucky Stars (1985)

recent gorgeous reads (literary non-fic): Grief As Mythos / Brandon Taylor Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain / Leslie Jamison The Summer I learned I wasn’t The Exception / Jenny Zhang The Unified Theory of Ophelia: On Women, Writing and Mental Illness / B.N Harrison