Karol Kállay :: from My Bratislava,
1944-1964
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Tag: headdress
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Geiko Yachiyo with a Heian Period Hat, 1910′s
Yachiyo dressed for the Ashibe odori (Ashibe public dance), holding a travelling hat from the Heian Period.
Yachiyo (1887-1924) was a famous geiko (geisha) from Osaka, known for her elegance and her lovely personality. People were said to weep with joy at the sight of her dancing. She became a maiko (apprentice geisha) at the age of thirteen and left the profession to marry the artist Suga Tatehiko at the age of twenty-nine. / src: Blue Ruin
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Apeda Studio (NY) :: Daisy Morgan posed in a harem costume, undated. / source: NYPL
Costume design by Adrian for the American musical drama The Great Ziegfeld directed by Robert Z. Leonard, 1936 / source
Portrait of actress Marie Louise Brooks in “The American Venus” (Paramount, 1926).
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Vera Zorina in a publicity photo for On Your Toes (1939) / via mudwerks
Margaretha Geertruida “Margreet” Zelle (1876
– 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a
Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for
Germany during World War I and executed by firing squad in France. Here,
wearing a bejewelled head-dress, 1910. Scan from magazine.
/ source and hi-res: Wikimedia
more [+] Mata Hari posts
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