Well, let's see, one day I went to Museo del Traje (History of Fashion museum) which turned out to be only so-so. The building it was housed in, on the historical register since 1990, was beautiful with a huge atrium and stained glass.
No Photos Inside (whatever).
The clothing wasn't all that interesting really. There was only one dress that I really liked--a Maria Olivares/Barcelona from 1914--and a lot of early silk frocks from their current revolving show of the Silk Road Exibition. Anyone interested should also look for a photograph called "Fashion is Indestructible" by Cecil Beaton (London, September 1941) with Digby Morton. This is an extremely cropped version I found online:
Basically Beaton photographed models (for Vogue I think) in the rubble during WWII...amazing!
A building in my neighborhood that I really like...
The Park at the north end of Calle Florida overlooking (I think) The Independence Tower:
Breaking these up into separate posts so that they're easier to read in bits...
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