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The Habsburgs / Re: Dresses of Empress Elisabeth

« on: October 14, 2009, 04:14:32 AM »

its this dress for marie valeries engagement and FJ's birthday:


when my scanner works i will scan the book cause there the dress is in full and beter quality

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The Habsburgs / Re: Dresses of Empress Elisabeth

« on: October 14, 2009, 04:12:44 AM »

Is the grey one the one that Sissi used for going to Marie Valerie's wedding??
Do you know if the others were used in other important days?

in the book Sisi Mythos und Wahrheit by katrin unterreiner they show that dress!
it was used at Marie Valeries Engagement and at the Emperors Birthday.

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The Habsburgs / Re: Empress Elisabeth's epistolary - poems/letters...

« on: October 13, 2009, 12:56:55 AM »

     Does anybody have any poem that Sissi wrote?  Or do you create yoursel a poem about her? Please post them , it will be very nice to read them.

I´m afraid reading of poems written by Sissi is not very nice. I have read a lot of them in very good biography of Sisssi by Brigitte Hamann. Sissi was not a good poet. Her poems are very long, boring and naive. And sometimes very severe to members of Habsburg dynasty.

i must agree they are not good...but it expresses her feelings..and some are quit funny!
but i dont think she even cared if people wouldnt like it...if i make a poem or something i also dont care about what others think of it...because its a way to express your feelings, even if the poem is good or bad..it is not made 2 be good or anjoying people, its just about how she feels, its about what lies beneath the poem, why she wrote it, what she was feeling and not made to amuse people who like litature.

but thats just my opinion :-)

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The Habsburgs / Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part III

« on: October 13, 2009, 12:48:29 AM »

Thank you very much Madame Sissi!! She was an incredible drawer, I saw one of herself with
her engagement dress and wasn't as good as these, perhaps because she was youger

i never saw that one before!
so if you f ind it please post it...;-)
I also have a picture with drawings of her when she still was a little girl, before she became empress!

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The Habsburgs / Re: Dresses of Empress Elisabeth

« on: October 13, 2009, 12:43:35 AM »

Is the grey one the one that Sissi used for going to Marie Valerie's wedding??
Do you know if the others were used in other important days?

I am not certain if that is the dress. I have seen it described only as grey silk
The Empress stood 1.72m, which is rather tall for that era, her shoe size was a European size 40, however 55 kilo is way underweight for a woman that size. I do believe that due to her 'circumstances' she was anorexic. Most anorexic get so thin that their hormones get unbalanced and their period stops.
Also, in her artifacts a cocaine syringe was found. Nothing unusual again for that time, but it is also a way to stay thin and still have energy. I think she would have benefitted by a visit to dr Freud......

her weight was less than 55 Kilo...
im also 1,71/1,72 and i way 50 kilo...but i eat all i want i dont get fat..lucky me i guess :p
but nowadays its quiet different!

yes the cocaine syringe was shown on a DVD of a documentary you can buy at schönbrunn or the Hofburg.
but she used it like you said in your other post, for depression and her doctor prescribed it indeed!

other time more knowledge of "drugs"..otherwise people still would have used it as a medicin against depression..
the only stupid thing with drugs like cocain if you use it when your depressed it doubles your feelings more... but well they didnt know it back then i guess

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The Habsburgs / Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part III

« on: October 10, 2009, 05:20:26 PM »

maybe because of her love for animals and nature...i dont know...or it was something she saw that day..who knows

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The Habsburgs / Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part III

« on: October 08, 2009, 05:01:07 PM »

i dont know what you mean Alzbeta but i have some drawings that sisi made:

it is said she made these paintings:

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The Wittlesbachs / Re: books

« on: October 04, 2009, 04:33:40 PM »

thanks Rani!
the one off Sophie is it only in french?

if you know more books 2 recomend just tell me..
so strange but i never buy a book who is not recomendend...well its not strange i think most people dont buy books who are not recomenable... :-)

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The Habsburgs / Re: Emperor Karl of Austria & Empress Zita, their family, Part I

« on: October 04, 2009, 03:56:44 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWgXy0QB2fw

here the movie about the pictures karlandzita posted..
it looks so cool those old movies...and funny 2 see them like in real life and not from pictures or portraits...

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The Habsburgs / Re: Emperor Karl of Austria & Empress Zita, their family, Part I

« on: October 02, 2009, 02:47:26 PM »

Emperor Karl and Empress Zita inspecting a flag during the War :

i think this picture is sooo funny... karl looks like hmm yeah its nice from this sight 2 haha

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The Habsburgs / Re: Dresses of Empress Elisabeth

« on: October 01, 2009, 01:41:36 PM »

Before 1870 you mean :p

no its not in vienna thats for sure..
if i remember corectly they had an small sisi museum made in castle possenhofen for a few days or somewhere near... there was the  pink dress shown.

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The Habsburgs / Re: Dresses of Empress Elisabeth

« on: September 30, 2009, 01:16:16 PM »

i had read a book yesterday that says her feet were size 40 (in european size, dont know which sizes they use in usa and ohter countries)
dont know which centimeters exactly..but i had read that some where 2

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The Habsburgs / Re: Dresses of Empress Elisabeth

« on: September 30, 2009, 04:04:19 AM »

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The Habsburgs / Re: Dresses of Empress Elisabeth

« on: September 30, 2009, 04:02:55 AM »

i dont know if this is posted.. but here some dresses, and more.

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Having Fun! / Re: Famous Habsburgs in movies/plays/cartoons

« on: September 30, 2009, 03:45:46 AM »

Yep, it is from the Dutch production.

i know thats what i said :p
i just think she looks alot like the real sophie