
Ch. Reutlinger :: Dancer with Insect Wings, Cabinet Card, no date / source, here
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images that haunt us

Carnival costumes / Mardi Gras costumes, 1931 from the weekly Dutch Magazine ‘Het Leven’ (source: Nationaal Archief in Wikimedia Commons)

Ruby Keeler as Bea Thorn in Footlight Parade, 1933 / src: theenglishgroup

Vintage photograph by Manassé studio, woman in clown costume, 1930′s / source

Bruce Gilden :: Coneheads at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1975
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Nelson Evans :: Five Mack Sennett girls provocatively posed amid serpentine confetti. Winners of the Shoscar for Best Costume. Photo by Evans, L.A. April 1918 | source and hi-res: Shorpy

Alla Nazimova in Salomé, 1922.
The film’s sets and costumes, including the iconic wig, were designed by Natacha Rambova, who was married to film star Rudolph Valentino.
/ src: Alla Nazimova
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