The legend is, that because Joan Crawford had very broad shoulders, costume designer Gilbert Adrian decided to exaggerate them instead of trying to distract us with styling tricks & incidentally started the fashion for padded shoulders on women.
Joan was a gendercon! #EGI
Broad, padded shoulders for women came into fashion in the 1930’s and lasted through the World War II years.
Butterick Fashion Flyer, April 1938.
Broad, padded shoulders for women & impossible hips.
Joan Crawford in the 1947 film "Possessed"
Showing off the male gait.
Joan stars in the silent film,
"Our daughters Dancing" 1928
A cast of gendercons.
Early photos of Joan Crawford 1920s
More photos of Joan Crawford in the 1920s
Joan Crawford 1945
Stair Fail
Joan's first husband, Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Who has the childbearing hips?
Joan's third husband, Phillip Terry
Joan Crawford adopted four children, Christopher, Cathy, Cynthia, and Christina.
She had several miscarriages apparently!
They fail to mention that men can't get pregnant!
Christina Crawford
Adopted son, Christopher Crawford
Adopted twins, Cathy & Cynthia Crawford
Rain is a 1932 film that stars Joan Crawford as prostitute Sadie Thompson.
A man in drag!
Joan Crawford.......in the club!
Joan as a young child and with mother and brother.
MTF
Photos that depict the interior of a Rococo period Pullman train car. 1800s
Original owners of Pullman Palacecars were EF Hutton and the Vanderbilt's had at least 3 of them, Harry, Willie, and Alice had one of their own... cattle barons bought them too.
The most famous stock holders of the Pullman company were JJ Astor, Ellen Banker, Chauncey Depew, Jay Gould, Julia Grant, John Hay, Henry Morgan, J Pierpont Morgan, JD Rockefeller, and the Vanderbilts.
Lillie Langtry (1853 – 1929) was a highly successful British actress, a renowned beauty, and socialite of the late 19th century. She was notorious for her long list of prominent suitors, which included the future King of England, Edward VII.
Lillie Langtry as Cleopatra 1895
Lillie as a young girl in the 1860s with her mother and father and an elder brother.
By the 19th century Bombay underwent an ambitious phase of building resulting in some of the finest architecture in Asia
British architects have been given credit in our historical narrative for the incredible creativity & skill of an advanced civilisation of master builders.
The Alexandra Native Girls' English Institution in Bombay 1890
According to the Imperial Gazetteer of India there were 134 secondary & 1,760 primary girls' schools in 1871.
Institutions used to indoctrinate children with the fake narrative, teach new, languages, new history.
A view of the village surrounding the Walkeshwar Temple in Bombay 1860