Saturday, January 15, 2011

The Hellcat

mary lincoln 1861

I stumbled upon a great account of Mary Lincoln this morning, and the images above [NYTimes via Library of Congress]. I want to do a project on body corsages and love how her corsage drips down the bodice of her gown...apparently Mary was quite a pip.

5 comments:

Shelley said...

I wonder who the florist was? imagine florists during the Civil War.

Anonymous said...

THat is the serious coolness

Anonymous said...

Just googled "body corsage" and was hit with malware at first click. Totally worth it.

Nina said...

In Scandinavia there was a tradition of body corsage early last century, when people graduated.
Here is a link to a famous finnish author called L. Onerva, on the third image you can see her graduation and her body corsage:
http://nimikot.nettisivut.fi/jasenseurat/l_onervan_seura_ry/

jezebel said...

I just teared up at thought of a body corsage.