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Mummer’s costume, English, 1829. Linen with wool appliqués.

i was looking up historically accurate clothing as a bit of art inspiration and found the online museum of saudi arabian costume. 

there’s a bunch more gems just like these and they’re all so beautiful and unique.  there’s also great information about the clothing, too, such as how they were made, who wore them, what fabrics were used, what the different parts of the costumes were called, etc.  just a really fun and informative site and i thought i would share my find.

ca. 1860’s, [hand tinted ambrotype portrait of a young banjo player with his two companions]

via Capitol Gallery, Fine Photographic Art, Ambrotypes

Bird girls of Szegeden, Hungary, 1880s (via Vintage Photo)

Leprechaun on roller skates, 1930s (via Vintage Photo LJ)

Bat Costume, (1887).

ca. 1870-80’s, [carte de visite portrait of three child acrobats in elaborate costume], Drew & Maxwell

via Ebay

1924 (via Vintage Photo LJ)

ca. 1880’s, [cabinet card, portrait of a reclining tattooed lady], Charles Eisenmann

via Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center, Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs

ca. 1870’s, [carte de visite portrait of a Swedish clown or acrobat wearing a costume covered in bats, rats, and a spider], J. Johansson

via Ebay

1924 cat costume

Art Afrons wears a monstrous outfit as he checks on new equipment on his dragster named “Green Monster”, 1959 (via Business Insider)

ca. 1860, [ambrotype portrait of a theatrically posed and costumed boy with a jaunty hat, standing beside a complacent woman]

via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Habits des nymphes de la suite d’Orithie du balet du Triomphe de l’Amour, 1681.

Wilder mann - charles Ferger

Remember the Perchta we posted about a few days ago? Folkloric cousin to the Krampus and fellow gruesome punisher of naughty children. Well here’s one of them!

Actually, this is only a plain old human being wearing an awesome Perchta costume and participating in a 1500 year-old pagan ritual to disperse the ghosts of winter. He was recently photographed by Dominic Ebenbichler during the Perchten festival in the western Austrian village of Heitwerwang.

[via Telegraph.co.uk]

Sumerian cloisonne ring | circa 3000 B.C, | Property of the Louvre in Paris.

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