Manly Men, Avert Your Eyes

[akirlu]

...'cause this is all about the girly. I was trying to hunt down an image I saw t'other day somewhere (Facebook? Pinterest?) of a riot of little girls in pink dresses and tiaras running full tilt down a field with great, big, steampunk-looking, shiny silver rayguns clutched in their arms. No luck there, but you never know what searching on a string that includes tiaras and guns will get you. So instead I stumbled on this report of all the tiaras that appeared at the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden a couple of years ago. Holy cow, that's some serious bling on display. The queen of Norway has an emerald tiara that once belonged to the Empress Josephine, and that's not even remotely the best one. And that's a whole lot of princesses, too, togged out in their finery. (Pity no one thought to give them ray guns, though.) I think my favorite is the bride herself, as is only fitting, in the Cameo Tiara, but there's a great many to choose from. Nevermind the Ascot hats, if you're gonna be a princess, you should by ghu get to trot out the tiara sometimes and by golly they do.

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[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yes, David Levine once observed that the wonder of the internet is the way it allows us to leverage the obsessive compulsive tendencies of other people without having to make small talk with them at parties, and I have to say this find is a prime example of that principle. This is a woman (?) who knows her shit when it comes to tiaras.

Myself, I quite like the Mellerio Floral Tiara, Princess Claire of Belgium's diamond and pearl tiara, the Habsburg fringe tiara, and Princess Kelly of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha's turquoise one.