One picture from each hour of my Thursday. Recorded in EST.

Mad Men is returning to television this month.

I'm slowly collecting some interesting rings, mostly from secondhand stores and street vendors...but I have nothing nearly as impressive as the ladies of The Selby. While that site is known for giving us a private peek at gorgeous interiors, other mini-series photographed there really catch my eye.

Decadent ruffles, exquisite tussie-mussies, and classic coifs? Just some very vintage fashion illustrations found on BibliOdyssey.

Way back in the day when I was brainstorming over what I would like my blog name to be, one of the titles on the list was "The Fashion Plate." Why? Like "clothes horse," the term is antiquated with multiple meanings; used figuratively it references a person who conforms to the latest fashions.

I got the Urban Outfitters Holiday catalogue in the mail awhile back and it really swept me away. The images of pretty girls in feather masks, high buns with giant knits, sequined cardigans, and socks with oxfords were lovely enough, but the little illustrations at the back of the catalogue? Even better.

Last November Vogue Russia had a deceptively simple editorial featuring these Matryoshka dolls hand painted to resemble the styles of various imminent designers.

I stumbled across the pictures of Ofer Wolberger and immediately fell in love with his series "Life with Maggie." The series intentionally seeks to depict a personal photo journal or visual travel diary while it explores the idea of a character lost in space and time.

Something about Matt Tischler's Untitled Screen Series feels like summer...

I like sparkly things...via

I can never view enough of Rodney Smith's photographs. There seems to be some intriguing narrative in many of his images, like he is as much as story-teller as a photographer.

Sometimes I come across these really lovely illustrators who seem to have captured all those loose imaginings and daydreams one experiences and put them in a concrete form with pen and paint. To me, Rachel Bone is one of those artists.

I still prefer a shelf full of books and I am rather doggedly a "bag" girl, but these shoe shots from the Selby are wooing me rather passionately. There is something quite delectable about a truly wonderful shoe.

There's few things prettier than a full shelf of books. Some will remember part one and two.

Some of my favorite periods in art were also the most brief, like Art Deco. The more modern the art the shortest its height of popularity, no? Art Deco's popularity peaked in the "Roaring Twenties" and I think these postcards from that era reflect the break with tradition and the redefinition of modern womanhood.