counting

One month (28 calendar days) until I turn 50 years old.

a PLUM of a find: vintage fangirling!

Straightening stacks in the reference section this morning, I came across an interesting encyclopedia type book: Hanson, Jillian. FEARLESS WOMEN: Athletes, Explorers, Other Competitors. New York: Raintree, 2000. It contained an entry on Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) an early aviator. Cool enough as is, what really perked me up was the mention that Miss Quimby always wore a PURPLE flight suit!

(And we all know how I feel about adventurous Victorian women and the color purple!)

File this one away in my list of gotta-do-someday steampunk costumes!



Biography links:
http://thepublici.blogspot.com/2009/06/beauty-in-motion.html
http://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/people/quimby2.html

Costume site about Harriet's trademark outfit:
http://www.fabrics.net/joan502.asp

Somebody beat me to it on this steampunk comm, with good pics and links: http://community.livejournal.com/steamfashion/388106.html