Miscellaneous

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1u/ah2_zpsd8c6e402.jpg" /><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1u/ah4_zps8b6e2f12.jpg" /><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1u/ah3_zps9d9962f8.jpg" /><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1u/ah1_zpsd655bccb.jpg" /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*Audrey Hepburn in Rome</div><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1u/newness-30_zpsf86cf8c5.jpg" /><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1u/ot_zps6420c5d9.jpg" /><br />What I wore this week: <a href="http://theclothes.blogspot.com/2014/06/catch-falling-star.html" target="_blank">Monday</a>, <a href="http://theclothes.blogspot.com/2014/07/white-picket-fence.html" target="_blank">Tuesday</a>, <a href="http://theclothes.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-books-were-true.html" target="_blank">Wednesday</a>, <a href="http://theclothes.blogspot.com/2014/07/blog-post.html" target="_blank">Thursday</a>, and <a href="http://theclothes.blogspot.com/2014/07/independence-day.html" target="_blank">Friday</a>.<br /><br />“What would it be like<br />to live in a library<br />of melted books.<br />With sentences streaming<br />over the floor and all the punctuation<br />settled to the bottom as a residue.<br />It would be confusing.<br />Unforgivable.<br />A great adventure.”<br />-Anne Carson<br /><br />Saturday links:<br />-<a href="http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/" target="_blank">how many people are in space right now?</a><br />-<a href="http://theclothes.blogspot.com/2014/07/sheinside-summer-giveaway.html" target="_blank">don't forget to enter my Sheinside giveaway</a><br />-<a href="http://io9.com/the-7-deadliest-fashion-trends-of-all-time-1595312875?curator=FashionREDEF" target="_blank">the 7 deadliest fashion trends</a><br />-<a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/07/stained-glass-electrical-tower/" target="_blank">oooh the prettiest electrical tower</a><br />-<a href="http://theclothes.blogspot.com/2014/06/summer-of-dinosaur.html" target="_blank">all the dinosaurs</a><br />-<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130409111603.htm" target="_blank">a new species of bat was found (and it's cute)</a><br />-<a href="http://ladyhistory.tumblr.com/post/88039119798/in-which-general-washington-becomes-increasingly" target="_blank">hilarious captioned adventures of George Washington</a><br />-<a href="http://www.sprinklebakes.com/2014/05/raspberry-rose-cake-for-better-homes.html" target="_blank">this cake is too pretty to eat</a><br />-<a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/05/29/plutos_big_comeback_why_it_could_be_reclassified_as_a_planet_partner/" target="_blank">Pluto could be a planet again? I'm so confused</a></div>

Miscellaneous

*Audrey Hepburn in Rome What I wore this week: Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday . “What would it be like to live in a li...

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Modern Romance

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1u/mr1_zps9b7550a7.jpg" width="530" /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever<br /><div></div>Its lovliness increases; it will never <br /><div></div>Pass into nothingness; but still will keep <br /><div></div>A bower quiet for us, and a sleep <br /><div></div>Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. <br /><div></div>Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing <br /><div></div>A flowery band to bind us to the earth, <br /><div></div>Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth <br /><div></div>Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, <br /><div></div>Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkn'd ways <br /><div></div>Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, <br /><div></div>Some shape of beauty moves away the pall <br /><div></div>From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, <br /><div></div>Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon <br /><div></div>For simple sheep; and such are daffodils <br /><div></div>With the green world they live in; and clear rills <br /><div></div>That for themselves a cooling covert make <br /><div></div>'Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake, <br /><div></div>Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms: <br /><div></div>And such too is the grandeur of the dooms <br /><div></div>We have imagined for the mighty dead; <br /><div></div>An endless fountain of immortal drink, <br /><div></div>Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink."<br /><div></div>poem by John Keats<br /><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1u/mr5_zps051f3f52.jpg" /><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1u/mr4_zpsadd7d410.jpg" /><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1u/mr6_zps8ef76fa4.jpg" /><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1u/mr2_zps3e8b93a2.jpg" /><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1u/mr3_zpsa4190e4c.jpg" /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Fei Fei Sun for Vogue China photographed by Sharif Hamza, more <a href="http://wearesodroee.com/2014/04/12/modern-romance-3/" target="_blank">here</a></div></div></div>

Modern Romance

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever Its lovliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet fo...

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Shimmering Grace

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1v/sh1_zps034082e5.jpg" /><br />"A something in a summer’s day, <br /> As slow her flambeaux burn away, <br /> Which solemnizes me. <br /> A something in a summer’s noon,<br />—An azure depth, a wordless tune,<br />Transcending ecstasy. <br /> And still within a summer’s night <br /> A something so transporting bright, <br /> clap my hands to see…"<br />-Emily Dickinson<br /><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1v/sh3_zps5950a8a9.png" /><img border="0" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z301/theclotheshorse/1v/sh2_zpsf7040863.jpg" /><br />I adore these photographs by Nick Knight for Vogue in 1995. Some of these images of Shalom Harlow and Amber Valetta were featured within the magazine while others are behind-the-scenes images which have surfaced in recent years. I love the hazy focus, like a half-remembered dream and the series reminds of the Emily Dickinson poem above.</div>

Shimmering Grace

"A something in a summer’s day,  As slow her flambeaux burn away,  Which solemnizes me.  A something in a summer’s noon, —An azure dept...

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