Beautiful Vintage and Retro Evening Gowns

An Alexander McQueen for Givenchy chain-fringed grey 

crêpe de chine evening gown, 1998,

Emilio Pucci

House of Givenchy

House of Balenciaga. Cocktail dress, early 1960's

Beautiful Cocktail Dresses

Alimentos que te deixam mais felizes.

 

When People Used the Postal Service to Mail Their Children

 

In January 1913, one Ohio couple took advantage of the U.S. Postal Service’s new parcel service to make a very special delivery: their infant son. The Beagues paid 15 cents for his stamps and an unknown amount to insure him for $50, then handed him over to the mailman, who dropped the boy off at his grandmother’s house about a mile away.

Regulations about what you could and couldn’t send through the mail were vague when post offices began accepting parcels over four pounds on January 1, 1913. People immediately started testing its limits by mailing eggs, bricks, snakes and other unusual “packages.” So were people allowed to mail their children? Technically, there was no postal regulation against it.

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Iconic Fashion close up

Marilyn Monroe and Maria Callas at JFK’s birthday

 gala, 1962.

Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961

Funny Face (1957), Audrey plays a serious bookshop clerk

Queen Elizabeth wearing a Normal Hartnell evening dress, 

 used in a sitting for photographer 

Cecil Beaton at Buckingham Palace1945

 Norman Hartnell evening dress worn by the Queen, right, for a performance

 of the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House in August 1971

Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return otherwise.

 

At age 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, crossed the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favorite doll.

She and Kafka searched for the doll to no avail.

Kafka told him to meet him there the day after they'd be looking again.

The next day, when they still haven't found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter ′′ written ′′ by the doll saying ′′ please don't cry.

Took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures."

So began a story that continued until the end of Kafka's life.

During their meetings, Kafka read the doll's letters carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.

Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (bought one)

′′ It doesn't look like my doll at all," the girl said.

Kafka gave her another letter in which the doll wrote: ′′ My travels changed me." the girl hugged the new doll and happily brought her home.

A year later Kafka died.

Many years later, the now adult girl found a letter inside the doll.

In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:

′′ Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return otherwise.

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Audrey Hepburn - Moon River