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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[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

I love this blog. I've run into it a couple of times when I do my periodic sweep of All Thing Royal on the internets. One of the things that always strikes me about the older tiaras is that they were designed during times when women wore their hair radically differently--i.e., piled high and elaborately--and it's interesting to see how they fare with today's more casual presentation. Some really work; some really don't.

I think my favorites on display here are the Cameo tiara, Queen Josephine's Amethyst Tiara, Queen Anne-Marie's rubies, the Pearl Poire Tiara, and the Rose-Cut Diamond Bandeau. While the fringe tiaras are beautiful, for some reason they just don't quite do it for me--and some of the spikey ones look too much like cartoon versions of tiaras to me.