brooke shields is currently starring on broadway as morticia in the addams family. it's great that she still has a thriving career, but any time i see her i can't help but obsess over how painfully gorgeous she was in her youth and how awesomely risque her calvin klein ads were in the 80s. also, isn't it obvious where american apparel took their marketing inspiration from? mm bushy eyebrows.

ballantine books, 1976 

                                from the movie the general (1926), this is considered to be the most expensive shot in silent film history. 

sparrow, hand built porcelain, 2008, by Kate MacDowell

siiiigh

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                                                                               Circassian Beauty, date unknown


In the 1860s, P.T. Barnum exhibited women whom he claimed were Circassian beauties. They wore a distinctive Afro hair style and were known as “moss haired girls.” Circassian beauties were typically presented as victims of sexual enslavement among the Turks, who 
had escaped from the harem to achieve freedom in America.   via black and wtf