~The Daily Victorian ~

I’m Off to Camp!

Camp NaNoWriMo that is! It starts tomorrow and for the month of June, I’m changing my profile picture to the Camp Participant badge.

They will have s’mores, will they not, Letitia?

Corset-o-rama, part 2: corset ads from Peterson’s Magazine, June 1885

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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—	Rudyard Kipling

Corset-o-rama, part 1: corset ads from Peterson’s Magazine, May 1889

Knickerbocker Braces, Practical Poultry Keeping and Ladies’ guide to Tokology; advertisements from Peterson’s Magazine, May 1889

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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—	Rudyard Kipling

Coraline Corsets, Rupture Rememdy and an Everlasting Wick; advertisements from Peterson’s Magazine, May 1889

Come poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We’ll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

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—	Margaret Hale, North and South (via melrgreenplate)

Visiting Dress, Harper’s Bazar, September 20, 1890

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.

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—	Rudyard Kipling

Empire Wringer and a Free Shotgun; advertisements, Peterson’s Magazine, May 1889

So adorable!

Autumn Toilette (C); Harper’s Bazar, September 20, 1890

All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.

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—	Rudyard Kipling

Athlophoros, advertisements from May 1889 issue of Peterson’s Magazine.