Hoyt's German Cologne

I bought a metal advertisement of Hoyt's German Cologne from a garage sale for a toonie recently. Creepy advertising with Victorian children and baby animals. More here

Victorian accessories. Hat illustrations

Jane Eyre

A couple summers ago I read the book Jane Eyre and loved it. Super girly gushy love. So classy and romantic, incredible cheesey in some parts, but a classic for a reason! I am so damned excited for the new theatrical version coming out in theaters March 11!!! I went on a Jane Eyre binge after I first read it and watched as many version as I could find online. The latest BBC mini-series made in 2006 was amazing and I'll be surprised if this movie can surpass it. The 1983 BBC version isn't bad, Timothy Dalton brings the heat but the actress who plays Jane makes the romance fall flat. Never watch the 1996 version starring Charlotte Gainsborough, it's awful. Anyway, I did these terribly embarrassing, fan-girl doodles of how I envisioned the characters to look after I read the book. Neither of the main characters were pretty, Rochester was large and ape-ish, Jane was small and elf-ish.

Drawn from a screen cap of the 1983 version. Actors looked perfect, but didn't act perfect.

I would love to see a runway show inspired by Jane Eyre. It would probably be in the ghostly, Gothic-Victorian style that Dame Darcy drew it. Every outfit would be long, poofy dresses with tight waists, long sleeves, and the appropriate cuffs. The colour palette would remain all moody black, grey, and white, but maybe with a spark of red in there for passion. The models would be ugly and spindly (but most models are).

Neon Victorian

My silly scanner does not compute neon yellow, orange, pink or green, but if it did you would be seeing the Lauren Willmot Spring 2011 Neon Victorian Collection. It would have been so awesome, a combination of the entire 1800's and the 80's to make a Victorian neon rainbow. There would have been black light Chandeliers hanging over the catwalk to make all the white and neon pop. The makeup and hair would have been either white wigs and black face minstrel with neon eyeshadow and lipstick, or black wigs with white clown makeup and neon eyeshadow and lipstick. Inspired by wake me up before you go-go and puttin' on the ritz, of course. That might have been the runway music. Or something by Neon Indian. So sad you missed it! Maybe next year.