1910
"Yes, the SMART models use their dresses to bind their ankles, darling."
1910
"Seems dumb to ME."
1911
This is a very "let them eat cake/let them dress like a cake topper" moment.
1911
"Would you look at that, Alfred. Mother just MELTED."
1912
"Dr. Moreau, your 3 o'clock is here."
1913
"In a hundred years EVERYONE will be doing glamorous camping. We'll call it 'camporous.' Perfect."
1913
"Sometimes," Matilda thought with a sigh, "my Man in the Mirror is so EXTRA."
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Chastity belts were complicated, and unsightly -- but, she reasoned, it's why they worked.
1916
"Bevin! Come quick! When the flower grew up, so did my hat!"
1916
"Checkmate," she said, poking the skeletal remains one last time.
1917
"Quick, before someone notices I've stolen the ENTIRE tea service."
1917
"One more mask for the laundry, Jeeves!"
1918
"Shhh. Angela is in there with Billy Joe and I THINK he's about to motorboat her décolletage."
1918
It was a real challenge to be 95 percent legs, 5 percent everything else, but somehow Mel managed.
1919
"And THAT'S when I accidentally shank my own head and turned YOU into a potted plant. So sorry. I'm SURE there's a fix for it somewhere."
1919
Getting her forearms stretched was the best investment Marlene ever made. Now she could wear her wind machines without them bumping into the piano.
1920
"I look crazy?!? YOU'RE the one who's tiny and green and naked."
1920
For a split second, Constance thought, "I could just push him..."
1921
Reader, she pushed him.
1921
It was official: LSD was positively the best thing Darla had ever done.
1922
"He'll be back," Edna said, though the confidence was beginning to crack around the edges. "Santa would never just LEAVE me here, not without his beard...?"
1922
"He would, darling, and he did, and he'll do it again. That's why I got a dog."
1923
"Now Dasher can be with me forever," she thought. "Thank you, taxidermy."
1923
I can't even tell what I'm supposed to be looking at here, fashion-wise.
1924
"I didn't even know Bernie could run that fast," she mused. "Who knew the words 'auto-erotic asphyxiation' would turn him into a sprinter."
1924
She always new the winds of Vogue's fancy would one day be her death.
1925
I rather love this.
1925
"Bart? Freida's into the brandy again."
1926
Her friends would rue the day they crossed her. Oh yes. They would. FOREVER, from atop her mantel.
1926
The Eiffel Tower would rue the day it crossed her. Oh yes. It would. FOREVER, from atop her mantel.
1927
This looks like they put an actual photograph in as the child's face. It's so jarring.
1927
"Yoohoo! Grandfather! Did you shore up the will before you boarded?"
1928
One thing was for sure: If she told one more lie, her head would shoot through the ceiling.
1928
And, sure enough, it did, which is why the back of her skull would now be missing forever.
1929
It was almost too painful for Rosemary to stay. Everywhere she looked, she was reminded of Charles.
1929
The Venus de Milo was really going through something.
1930
"Psst. Back there. Your contact is waiting for you."
1930
"They call me the Smoking Bovine, because... well, because they were in a hurry and it's the best they could do."
1931
"I'll get you, GOGUE MAGAZINE, if it's the last thing I ever do!"
1931
Even the Vogue archives have a torn cover or two.
1932
"Who does Marge think she is, trying to steal a seat in the front row? She's only been rich for a few years!"
1932
Turns out 1990s eyebrows WERE a throwback.
1933
This woman is about to have a down and dirty gossip session and I want to be there.
1933
Like, say, about that time her friend Betty's husband stabbed her with a curtain rod while she was going through a revolving door.
1934
Or the time Bettina's pet bird tried to kill her and missed, and it was the last thing it ever did.
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Or the time a fur stole possessed with the spirit of her ex-lover tried to cuddle Eliza to death.
1935
Or when Bridget found her husband's stash, and kept it.
1935
I am not sure what this is meant to be, other than perhaps ... appropriative.
1936
"It's time to TRYYYYY defYYYYYing GRAAAAAvity..."
1936
I didn't see THIS coming.
1937
So far, the Gates of Hell didn't seem so bad to Edwina.
1937
When no one was looking, Grace jabbed a hairpin into the casket. "I hope you felt that in HELL, Edwina."
1938
Thereafter, Edwina would haunt her through this old portrait.
1938
This feels like a fox hunt at a beach.
1939
"WELL. You look DELICIOUS."
1939
Alas, he wasn't.
1940
"Good," Edwina snorted. "You deserve a bad meal after stabbing my dead body with a HAT PIN three days after you POISONED MY SOUP. I'll be seeing you here soon."
1940
"VERY soon."