Fan Dance, date and location unknown / src: photos obscura
Tag: costume
John Springer :: Actresses Lillian Roth and Frances Dee
(right)
dressed as lovely mermaids of the sea, 1930′s (Photo by John Springer Collection / Corbis via Getty Images) / via silver-screen-nostalgia
Thomas Northcote :: Igbo masquerade dancers. Nri-Awka region, Nigeria. Early 1900’s / src: Stephen Ellcock on Instagram
Nini Theilade in Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle’s ’A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1935) / src: Stephen Ellcock
Ziegfeld Follies dancer in devil costume with trident, ca. 1929 / src: livejournal
Maurice Seymour (studio) ::
Dancers from Chicago’s Silver Frolics Burlesque, ca. 1950′s-1960′s / via
gmgallery
more information about Maurice Seymour studio on original source
Takarazuka Girl, ca. 1920 – Unknown photographer. “Probably a Takarazuka Girl, if she had been born only 30 years earlier, she might have become a talented Geisha. Although my photo title paints her as a Japanese ‘Tinkerbell’, as flickr poster Muiz Anwar points out below, she is a Bumblebee or a bee, and not a Fairy.”
/ src: Okinawa Soba
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