Meryl Streep

Hold your body close and then rub it against me a little bit

Evening dress consisting of a bodice and skirt of embroidered silk velvet, possibly made in Paris, retailed by Stern Brothers, New York, 1894. Victoria & Albert Museum.

Antonio Frilli - Sweet dreams, 1892

Stars

flower petal ashtray

The sun and the moon - One of the oldest Lovers.

Ring, star sapphire in a gold setting that was probably made in London, 1850. Victoria & Albert Museum.

Evening dress by Callot Soeurs, 1908. Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

i see a dad in the mountains, do you? (i relistened to atmod yesterday !! i missed them oouughh)

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

Evening cape by Emile Pingat, 1890s. Whitaker Auctions.

A new year must be a different year, and if the old one has kept us apart, perhaps the new year, with miraculous forces, will throw us together. Throw, throw, New Year! Franz Kafka, 1912.

The Birth of Venus by Konstantin Makovsky (1900-10)

Had the strangest dream last night that three spirits visited me, hah! What malarkey!

By Zhong Lin

Nothing truly says holiday spirit quite like my staff needing to shoo away the beggars and common folk who come knocking at my door this time of the year. Been giving me a jinx near all month with all the ringing and knocking. I don’t need your tin pan wreaths or trees, see!

Ice skating by night in Vienna. Photographed in 1910.