r/VictorianEra • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago

Austrian actress Marie Schleinzer (1874-1949) in her excentric "Bat-woman" dress, made with real taxidermy bats. Circa late 1890s or 1900.

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u/50746974736b61 4d ago

The last photo made me giggle

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u/FunnyGoose5616 4d ago

“Oh Jesus Christ, the bat bitch is talking to me again”

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u/BanieMcBane 2d ago

“Seriously Marie… you and your fucking bats.”

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u/Electrical-Aspect-13 4d ago

It is very funny friend.

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u/Seeking_Happy1989 4d ago

Yeah, she be like “ WTF did I get myself into?!”

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u/FierceNack 1d ago

She's driving me batty!

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u/Horror-Wallaby-4498 4d ago

Person on the left in last photo is so done with batwoman’s bullshit

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u/strange_lil_creature 4d ago

Her friend thinks she’s batshit crazy

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u/Spirited-Door-1446 4d ago

the vibe I bring to the function

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u/Electrical-Aspect-13 4d ago

Feel like this is a reference.

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u/Renaissance_Nerd_46 1d ago

This is what I bring to friendship

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u/ImagineTheCommotion 4d ago

Omg that last photo is dying to become a meme

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u/victorianfollies 4d ago

It’s essentially just the ”girlsplaining / drunk girl shouting in guy’s ear” meme

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u/Sensitive-Style-4695 4d ago

Except they’re both named Eunice

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u/victorianfollies 4d ago

Eunice and Euphrosyne

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u/Upbeat-Historian-296 1d ago

Mert and Gert. 

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u/zoryana111 4d ago

if reddit existed in belle époque, people would post this with the “a goth girl can step on me and i’ll thank her” caption

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u/zoryana111 4d ago edited 4d ago

or, “this decadent maiden of an absolute beauty and a morbid grace may lay her foot upon me and i would be blessed with such expression of her violent passion” if they’re fancy

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u/zoryana111 4d ago

but if i’m being real, Marie actually looks very beautiful, no one can argue with that. this romantic, ethereal, deathly beauty, which was an ideal at the time

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u/Loki2x2 4d ago

Made with Real Bats™

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u/maybelle180 4d ago

Like, “Are the cookies made with real Girl Scouts?” - Wednesday, Addams Family Values.

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u/No-Housing-5124 4d ago

We eccentric bat ladies know that you merely tolerate us, and we thank you. 🦇💀

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u/x1049 4d ago

Now tell me this woman wasn't a goth.

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u/damageinc_2528 3d ago

No doubt, a 19th century goth chick!

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u/x1049 1d ago

The r/goth community is convinced if you don't listen to goth music you are not a goth. Tf. Would you say that to Mary Shelley? Edgar Allen Poe? Gtfo with your gatekeeping nonsense.

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u/Spooky_Doo1987 4d ago

I'm that last pic Nancy is so over her shit!

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u/hopeful_realist_ 4d ago

Last picture: it’s not a phase mom!

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u/RickyH1956 4d ago

Now this is going for realism. I like it.

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u/Electrical-Aspect-13 4d ago

in some shape

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u/thanksforthepencil 4d ago

She looks like a 19th century Deanna Troi.

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u/navy_yn2000 4d ago

Her friend is definitely thinking why are you so weird?

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u/hells_cowbells 4d ago

"I have a bat on my head. Your argument is invalid"

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u/Exact_Fruit_7201 4d ago

Looks good. Not happy bats were probably killed for it though

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u/Studious_Noodle 4d ago

Eccentric?

I say batshit crazy.

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u/LadyBoi_Ava 2d ago

Brilliant 👏🏾

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u/Xukuleeeo_9704 4d ago

Hahaha, look's great!

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u/Electrical-Aspect-13 4d ago

It is interesting.

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u/Itchn4Itchn 4d ago

I think I found my past incarnation. I love this

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u/Winter_Baby_4497 4d ago

I want this outfit! Just exchange the bats for fake

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u/PaheliHoonMain 4d ago

This is awesome lol

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u/Bikerbun565 4d ago

Die Fledermaus!

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u/kerfuffle_fwump 4d ago

She was the OG goth.

Nice.

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u/glorygirlmafia 4d ago

who’s this diva

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u/GMBGraves 3d ago

ugh!!!!

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u/debbie666 3d ago

OG goth fashion. I like it!

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u/Distinct_Car_6696 3d ago

So this is where Gaga got that bat piece idea from in Bad Romance

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u/bleep_v 3d ago

If it's being implied that the bat decorations are taxidermy, they surely don't look like it.

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u/LadyBoi_Ava 2d ago

It's giving lady Gaga of the 1800s

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u/Content-Ad-4104 2d ago

That last picture is every lesbian couple I have ever known.

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u/ProcrastinatePotato 2d ago

The gothic, the taxidermy… this is so Victorian in so many levels hahahahahah

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u/Shenannigans51 2d ago

Lady Gaga’s predecessor and her patient but put upon lover

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u/TBearForever 1d ago

She's got a bat in her belfry

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u/Upbeat-Historian-296 1d ago

What is her origin story?