Curiosities -4

PETTI-CURIOSITIES, ODDITIES, NOVELTIES & HUMOR - 4
Strange incarnations of our proclivities!

Crinolyn keeps coming up with interesting
curiosities, like this one:

A straw ballerina

"What happens when the designer accidentally divides her geometry by zero...
This looks like it's inside out, or inverted, or both, or something.
Dressmakers: Just say 'no' to peyote. :-)"

Here's something inventive, and pretty:

Day-to-night-light skirt

From Jean L.

Crinolyn says:

"No petti? Use an umbrella!"

Similar items we already have: #1 #2

A weird wedding outfit
from John N.

A couple of oddities:
(L) Designer Josh Olins
(R) Victor&Rolf, 2010
From John N.

Of possible interest:

The heads of Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, Myrna Loy, Greta Garbo,
and Marlene Dietrich in March’s window, Fifth Avenue, NY, May 1938.

Photo by Carl Van Vechten.

Some comedy from Denise:
"From a fun slide show of wacky wedding photos. Were they filled with helium?
When she sits down will she be a bursting bride instead of a blushing bride?"
(ED: Surprised she doesn't float away! They'd have a tough time getting her down from the ceiling!)

'A.T.' reports this curiosity:

"I just found an interesting image of a kind of hoop skirt. First, I saw it in today’s (4/20) New York Times about an opera called 'Science Fair'. Then I found the image (in color) by googling “science fair opera”. Here is the site of that image: The hoops represent planetary orbits."

We cannot explain these photos, but they are definitely good for The Pond...
(Maybe petticoats make one feel lighter than air? Or maybe one wearing petticoats feels like she will float away?)"

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