Morgan Kelly Muses

December 25, 2012 11:24 am

The Bracebridge Dinner

11:23 am

The Bracebridge Dinner, Stars Hollow.

December 21, 2012 12:30 pm 

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, 
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; 
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, 
In the bleak midwinter, long ago...
~Christina Rossetti~

October 9, 2012 2:58 pm
Policewomen posing with guns at shooting range in Los Angeles, California, 1948. Oh, those intrepid ladies make me proud!

Policewomen posing with guns at shooting range in Los Angeles, California, 1948. Oh, those intrepid ladies make me proud!

(via collectivehistory)

2:34 pm
Bibliophilia: The Disease For Which Nobody Wants a Cure! 

Bibliophilia: The Disease For Which Nobody Wants a Cure! 

1:24 pm
"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. ~ Jorge Luis Borges~"
September 21, 2012 12:04 pm
The Ladies of Downton Abbey in Stunning Technicolor!

The Ladies of Downton Abbey in Stunning Technicolor!

September 20, 2012 3:14 pm

An Effortless Grace: Iconic Downton Abbey Screen Stills

August 30, 2012 6:07 pm

Blackpool Bathing Beauties, 1926.

(Source: retronaut.co)

5:28 pm
“Among the many things that the male of the species can never understand about feminine wearing apparel is the fact that simplicity is one of the most expensive effects a designer can achieve.      That is why a really well-dressed flapper presents such a shock to the average man’s mind when he reads the price tags on the chic ad deceptively simple garments that make up the flapper ensemble.      In fact, it costs about as much to dress a modern girl in a genuinely modish flapper outfit as it does to equip completely a reasonably well-furnished three-room flat.      The jaunty costume illustrated by Clara Bow is an excellent example of what it costs to be a well-dressed flapper. The total cost of this outfit comes to the very interesting figure of $346.50.”

“Among the many things that the male of the species can never understand about feminine wearing apparel is the fact that simplicity is one of the most expensive effects a designer can achieve.

     That is why a really well-dressed flapper presents such a shock to the average man’s mind when he reads the price tags on the chic ad deceptively simple garments that make up the flapper ensemble.

     In fact, it costs about as much to dress a modern girl in a genuinely modish flapper outfit as it does to equip completely a reasonably well-furnished three-room flat.

     The jaunty costume illustrated by Clara Bow is an excellent example of what it costs to be a well-dressed flapper. The total cost of this outfit comes to the very interesting figure of $346.50.”