Clothilde, ink on paper, 1998 (c) Ruth Marten
Taken from my fav illustration blog 50 Watts.
Journey to the Light
Vogue US, April 1967
Photographer: Franco Rubartelli
Model: Veruschka
(via sissyshelleyskeeter)
this is god’s country.
found photo.
‘Jerry Dagenhart writes:
It is hard to imagine that this braid and Valentine were fashioned in the late 1850’s when Suzie Pinion (Pennell) was still dating Larkin Carlton Barlow.
People used to make their Valentines. I was told there was a poem that went with the Valentine, sadly no original handwritten copy exists and it no doubt has lost verse over the years. Suzie no doubt learned the poem as a writing exercise in school as I have seen pieces of it written on photos in letters and in other families in NC. I can still hear Tom Dison and Jose Dison Brown singing the little poem they were taught by their Mother.
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‘Suzies Lament’
When this you see remember me for this you can see when you can’t see me,
Remember me and forget me not.
Accept this braid for with Love it was wrought.
Though Miles apart we may be, like this braid my heart is ever with thee.
And if the grave shall be my bed remember me when I am Dead.
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I imagine that as Larkin Carlton Barlow lay on the battlefield at Hanover Court House in Virginia, and his lifes blood ebbed away, the words of this poem and the face of his beloved Suzie were his last thoughts. I have this Valentine and several other braids of Suzie’s granddaughters hair in a frame.’
found this on the BARLOW family genealogy site while scouring the net for braids. freaky deaky.
WAT!
(Source: seaweed-salad, via pisspuddles)
an anonymous reader had the pleasure of bowling a lane neighboring this young man’s. that thing is totally sick- thin rattybraid dipping from an accomplished poof. notice the elegant curve at the end of the tail. muy whispy. muy groovy.
spotted this hip gal at the walgreens. longer the hairs, fewer the cares.
MIGUEL PIRES: goldplaited man.
