1917-1920
wool jersey bathing costumes
photograph from my collection
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While I was out
The girls on the way to the Vatican
Ready for the 3D show in Rome
Santa Maria della Salute Venice
Madonna Rome
the girls on the way to Laurito
Piazza San Marco in the morning
Eliza at Fornillo
Positano at sunset
Bella Isabella
Fornillo
Fete du Tuileries
Nuns RomeIt's Foto Friday! And Variety is the Spice of Life!
Mother and Grandmother, Arlene Washington, is terribly proud of her Beautiful Brown Family and OBG is ti
ckled [Brown] to present her family right here on the OBG blog!
ckled [Brown] to present her family right here on the OBG blog! "These are my Brown Girls and their children. What beautiful people. I love them all and am so happy [that] they also have [a] wide variet[y] of friends and acquaintances. We have had huge varieties [of cultures in our family] which makes for...well rounded people. [I]f it keeps up, the world could actually become a more loving and tolerant place! Love your site and am sharing with the children and grands! Thank you, Arlene."
just in case you are looking...Caftan Reprise
THOMAS WYLDE
"British model-turned-designer Paula Thomas is the creative force behind punk chic label Thomas Wylde, with its signature mix of rebellious prints and luxe fabrics." from Net- A- Porter.com
more about Paula Thomas ? a "random questions" interview by The FASHION INFORMER here
SNAKES, the next big thing? go to Model's Own here, Ulla says.
The One Brown Girl Challenge
The One Brown Girl Challenge: Cook with a spice you've never used before!Have you been eyeballing a recipe that calls for spices like saffron, cumin, coriander or tumeric? Have you seen unusual spices at the market but weren't sure how to use them? Go outside of your comfort zone by performing a quick Web search for a recipe using a spice you aren't accustomed to and surprise your friends and/or family with a tasty treat from another culture!
the mystery of the yellow room by gaston leroux
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if you like a mystery a must read is The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux. Leroux wrote The Phantom of the Opera. the Yellow Room, originally published in French Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune in the 1907 periodical L'illustration.
Detective Joseph Rouletabille makes his first appearance in the Yellow Room- and has an impossible crime to unravel. Leroux holds nothing back -reader is given each detail found by Rouletabille along with floor plans of the crime scene.
read it online here
stairs to the attic
the laboratory
Glandier
Professor Stangerson's Chateau
the Park
Mlle Stangerson's Bedroom
Mlle Stangerson's Drawing Room
Great Hall of Glandier
Long Gallery of the Chateau
characters illustrated by Boldini
Frederic Larsan – distinguished police detective
Sinclair-the narrator & friend to Rouletabille
Professor Stangerson
the scientist, owner of "Chateau du Glandier"
Mathile Stangerson
daughter of the famous scientist & his assistant
M.Robert Darzac- Mathile Stangerson's fiance
Jacques the caretaker
happier times
Mlle Stangerson & Darzac
Mlle Stangerson- the victim
the painful interrogation of Mlle Stangerson
the mysterious correspondence of Mlle
The novel finds its continuation in The Perfume of the Lady in Black where a number of the characters familiar from this story reappear.
all exterior and interior views from (here)
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if you like a mystery a must read is The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux. Leroux wrote The Phantom of the Opera. the Yellow Room, originally published in French Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune in the 1907 periodical L'illustration.
Detective Joseph Rouletabille makes his first appearance in the Yellow Room- and has an impossible crime to unravel. Leroux holds nothing back -reader is given each detail found by Rouletabille along with floor plans of the crime scene.
read it online here
stairs to the attic
the laboratory
Boldini
Glandier
Professor Stangerson's Chateau
the Park
Mlle Stangerson's Bedroom
Mlle Stangerson's Drawing Room
Great Hall of Glandier
Long Gallery of the Chateau
characters illustrated by Boldini
Joseph Rouletabille
the young journalist and detective
the young journalist and detective
Frederic Larsan – distinguished police detective
Sinclair-the narrator & friend to Rouletabille
Professor Stangerson
the scientist, owner of "Chateau du Glandier"
Mathile Stangerson
daughter of the famous scientist & his assistant
M.Robert Darzac- Mathile Stangerson's fiance
Jacques the caretaker
happier times
Mlle Stangerson & Darzac
Mlle Stangerson- the victim
the painful interrogation of Mlle Stangerson
the mysterious correspondence of Mlle
The novel finds its continuation in The Perfume of the Lady in Black where a number of the characters familiar from this story reappear.
all exterior and interior views from (here)
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Mixing It Up in the Canary Islands
Mermaids of the Canary IslandsThe Brown Girl mermaids in this lovely painting reflect a true cultural crossroads of all of the interesecting cultures that populate The Canary Islands. The Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago, consist of 7 islands in the Atlantic Ocean located just off the NW coast of mainland Africa 100 km west of the disputed border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. With a Canarian population of a little over 2 million (of which over 1.5 million are Canarian-born and close to 200,000 of which are from the Spanish mainland), the cultural mix includes foreign residents that are Portuguese, Italian, Flemish, German, British, Colombian, Venezuelan, Cuban, Argentinian, African and Moroccan. How about that for mixing it up? ;-)
The Brown Girl World: An Anonymous Brown Girl's Story
A Pakistani Brown Girl's Story: An Immigrant Remembers--------------------
I suppose we cannot blame our friends for associating Pakistan with endless angry mustached mobs and the pervading image of a tortured Daniel Pearl. When one thinks of Pakistan, one thinks of burning effigies, corrupt army officials and of nukes.
A truly informed outsider might even venture to say something about the cricket team or about the female face of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto [1953 - 2007; pictured above].
But behind the oblong shadow cast by the media's coverage of a rotting political situation is a nation teeming with undiscovered potential. After all, how does one explain the fragrance of the orange blossoms that line the roads between Lahore and Islamabad? Trees clutch wearily to the weighty burden of their citrus offspring, hesitant to let go, stooping against a backdrop of aurous sarson fields. Read more here.
A truly informed outsider might even venture to say something about the cricket team or about the female face of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto [1953 - 2007; pictured above].
But behind the oblong shadow cast by the media's coverage of a rotting political situation is a nation teeming with undiscovered potential. After all, how does one explain the fragrance of the orange blossoms that line the roads between Lahore and Islamabad? Trees clutch wearily to the weighty burden of their citrus offspring, hesitant to let go, stooping against a backdrop of aurous sarson fields. Read more here.
kaftan love
Jean Etienne Liotard1702-1789
Signora Antonella Agnelli, Vogue 1966
with her 2 year old son Gianni wearing a century old caftan from Casablanca
the inimitable ROSE Cumming
another LiotardComtesse Michel de Ganay
in Egyptian cotton stripe caftan
gorgeous Marina Rust in quaftan
I grow tired of summer, the heat, the humidity- but I never grow tired of my summer At Home uniform. Winter too for that matter.
Caftan-Origin 1585–95; Russian Kaftan, Turkish - Persian Qaftan
go to The Costume Institute to see their collection (here)
A 1970 Lanvin from the Costume Institute
in a Liotard painting
go to The Costume Institute to see their collection (here)
A 1970 Lanvin from the Costume Institute
in a Liotard painting
Alexandra Czarina in a traditional Russian kaftan
Model Lily Donaldson in bohemian caftan
YSL fantasy kaftan
Allegra Hicks designed this form fitting caftan
the designer Allegra Hicks
Aerin Lauder in Michael Kors
Principessa Nancy Ruspoli Vogue 1966
in a man's Moroccan caftan
in a man's Moroccan caftan
Mrs Richard de la Mare
in a Liberty Caftan
vogue 1966
Mrs. Lesley Blanch
Vogue 1966
Mrs David Naylor-Leyland
Vogue 1966
Vogue 1966
"Mrs. Ahmet Ertegun" as Vogue put it in 1966
wearing a gold Moroccan caftan as an evening coat
& today, more beautiful as Mica
an Ossie Clark
style.com
(I'd love to have this one)
(I'd love to have this one)
and Andre Leon Talley
Willis Smalls and ALT in Diane Von Furstenberg caftan and Roger Vivier neclace, attend Maya Angelou’s July 5th brunch. photograph by Chase Beck
This photograph of ALT is just dynamite. I am crazy about this man. Read the story here. He has deep North Carolina connections and his 2003 book ALT: A Memoir is a book everyone interested in fashion, family, and destiny should read- That means everyone. Get it. Read it.Wear a Caftan!
the Vogue 1966 photographs Cecil Beaton, Henry Clarke, Horst, Rastelli
