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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 397068, member: 5833&quot;]Not wearing <b><i>that</i></b> cameo!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I keep an image file of cameos being worn &amp; will add her.&nbsp; Here&#039;s another sitter with a similar piece:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]138027[/ATTACH] </p><p>And a woman wearing one of those ubiquitous W. German ones:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]138028[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Be grateful I didn&#039;t make her my avatar!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Whenever I&#039;m watching a television drama set in the Victorian era, including <i>Victoria</i>, &amp; spot a character wearing a cameo I always try to get a good look at it.&nbsp; Almost always an anachronistic one, either artificial, like one above, or shell, but not very good &amp; from the 50s.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you wore one of the large ones, it surely forced you to keep your chin up:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]138030[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It amuses me that staid (presumably) respectable women, like the lady above, so often wore cameos depicting Dionysus/Bacchus, who presided over drunken, orgiastic rites, or, like the lady above her, ones with a participant, a maenad/bacchante.&nbsp; &#039;Bacchante maiden&#039; is one of my favorite oxymorons.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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