Vera McCloud, circa 1900

This lovely lady is Vera McCloud.

I often wish the world in general put more effort into looking their best. Then again the world could say the same thing right back to me! At any rate, as much as I love the beautiful old dresses, I could not imagine how much work and preparation these women had to do to pull their look together.

Vera , for instance , is wearing fur, feathers, velvet, gloves, and an excessively buttoned dress! But she looks perfectly sweet. As my aunt likes to say, it’s the finished product that counts!

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2 thoughts on “Vera McCloud, circa 1900”

i’m spoiled. i look forward to the music. vera mccloud’s clothes are beautiful though

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This photograph is beautiful! I, too, wish people would dress a little better when on the job or just going out in the public. Some of these fashions look so burdensome, but it’s just what a person is used to and easy for them. I always think of Vivian Leigh as Scarlett being laced up by the wonderful Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind. Some of those garments are best left in the past.

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