Call me a bizarre anthropomorphic rabbit, because I’ve got so many Easter Eggs in my 270th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the hunt, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Today is publication day for my book Gilded Age Fashion! Happy to partner with my friends at Lofty Pigeon Books in Brooklyn: shop.loftypigeonbooks.com/preorders/gi...

Q&A with Elizabeth L. Block about her new book, GILDED AGE FASHION. tinyurl.com/yf8dcdfh @elizabethlblock.bsky.social

Thank you for the interview @deborahkalb.bsky.social!

Join us this #WomensHistoryMonth in amplifying women’s voices past and present. Our website is a wonderful place to start learning more. Spread the word! womenshistorynetwork.org #WHM2026 #WomensHistory #GenderHist Image: Pit girl brow workers, Wigan, 1900. COPY 1/445, The National Archives.

One of Carl Van Vechten's luminous photographic portraits of Harry Belafonte, from the Van Vechten papers at Yale's Beinecke Library archives.yale.edu/repositories...

People ask me what it’s like to write the #MJMfashionGuide & conveniently I have footage of the process.

You are invited to the book launch of Gilded Age Fashion! April 2, 6:30pm. Lofty Pigeon Books, Brooklyn Join me for a book signing and conversation with Carl Raymond, host of The Gilded Gentleman podcast. Details and RSVP here: shorturl.at/Q75i2 Free to all. Please share with friends.

Thank you, Catherine O’Hara, for showing us a way.

The House of Worth was never afraid of a bold motif in the late c19th. Exuberant florals became their signature, here woven into pear green damask but a blousy, leafy rose climbing the cloth @mfaboston.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Reading grad apps at the moment and yet again astonished at how amazing folks are. Almost everyone is better qualified than I was, impressive and interesting and motivated. I am finding this incredibly difficult.

Thank you to Material Intelligence magazine for dedicating an issue to the topic of hair and for giving me the honor of writing an article. Open access: www.materialintelligencemag.org/hair-16/. Photo: Yale Joel. Woman Having Her Hair Styled at Hair Salon at Saks Fifth Avenue, 1962. LIFE

New medieval art exhibition at the Cloisters, reviewed by @philipkennicott.bsky.social wapo.st/4pOK4iR [gift link] #MedievalSky

I am currently coveting this #1960s ensemble by Bonnie Cashin. The grey wool outlined with red leather, the brass fastenings, the plaid lining, the berry red dress beneath. Yes please to all of the above #goldsteinmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Look at this advance copy of GILDED AGE FASHION! Reserve yours today and thank you for your ongoing support 🙏🏻

It's Public Domain Day! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

My latest newsletter is waiting for you! Always free: open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

PSA: Free shipping at @bookshop.org today

actually referring to planning notes I wrote before starting to write this novel, please clap

Louvre to charge 37 USD entrance fee starting Jan. 14. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book! Links here: www.sjgroenewegen.co.uk/publications 💙📚

There's a 40% discount this weekend on my book 'Street Style' (and a great range of other titles!) in Reaktion Books Black Friday sale. www.instagram.com/p/DRl3eO-D1L...

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. Day set designed by Sophie Gimbel, USA, c1950. Full details here: fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/4052...

He is risen

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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.

📣 Hi everyone. The latest issue of my Gilded Age Fashion newsletter is waiting for you! ➡️ Read for free and please share: open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Me watching microwave.

Ok I missed the first episode of Ken Burns American Revolution last night because, you know, life, but I’m going to live post streaming it now. Apologies in advance. #KatywatchesAmRev

Ready for the first Monday in May! Met Gala 2026 theme just announced

Let’s do next week like this.

Since Black Friday seems to have come early this year, if you're shopping for the new paperback edition of Fashion Victims and want a signed, personalized copy, The Huntington's shop can help you out! Just say in the order notes that you want it signed and how. thehuntingtonstore.org/products/fas...

Just to clarify--I am using the most common 19th-century spelling--"crape"--for the mourning fabric. I should probably put that disclaimer in any time I use the word because many readers think that it is a misspelling. I'm all about the primary sources and try to use the terminology of the time.

I'm going to have a nice peaceful day with no bad news if it kills us all.

They may not stand up to moorland treks or autumnal downpours but I hope the former owner of these boots by Pinet was able to flash her ankles and show off the embroidered panels whilst she walked. Late 1870s @lacma.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Oh just some old frock I flung on, understated and demure. The house of Worth believed in a statement, both in fabric and construction and this mid #1890s gown is no exception, rich purple with a smattering of gold #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Hi everyone. I am pleased to announce my new book GILDED AGE FASHION! ➡️ Reserve your first edition copy now from your favorite bookseller.

Hi everyone. Two new issues of my Gilded Age Fashion newsletter are waiting for you. Read for free and please share! open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

New summer dates for my Joy Goddess book tour! Headed to EssenceFest for a book talk & signing in the Morial Convention Center at 1 pm on 7/5. Hope to see you in DC, Martha's Vineyard, Atlanta, Miami, Indy and Baltimore. More stops to come with details here and on my website www.aleliabundles.com

"A triumph." Panorama, a journal of @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social‬, reviews "Beyond Vanity," a valuable contribution to the emergent field of hair studies, by art historian @elizabethlblock.bsky.social‬: journalpanorama.org/article/beyo...

It is easy to decry garments worn by generations past as we occupy spaces of stretch fabrics but women could move more than we imagine. Here an 1873 tennis dress & an active participant in John Lavery’s 1885 painting ‘Played’ offering a different view @chertseymuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

[Slips this into your protest knapsack]

This morning I heard a guy, standing in front of a salon, say into his phone, “I’d go low femme on brows & high femme on the mouth” & I have no idea what that means or the context but also this is indisputable/correct/wise.

"Tariffs and Trade: A Historical Perspective" is a reading list of books and journal articles that address global and historical trends in tariffs and trade over the past 100 years. Articles are freely available through 10/1/25. View the full list: buff.ly/XOtGCBS

I notice that this early #1870s Worth gown features in the Paris retrospective of the fashion house’s designs. I have long used this gown as an example of the bringing together of makers - of passementerie, of weavers, of seamstresses in a dizzying assortment @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

I don’t think I am destined ever to own a garment that requires a matching coat but if by some miracle I were, I hope it might look something like this. Some #1960s Mme Grès marries darkest navy with brilliant yellow in seemingly simple lines @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Tonight! Thursday, May 15, 7pm at the Montauk Club, Brooklyn. Stop by if you can. I will add you to the list #fashionsky

Somehow this is real and I had the chance to talk with the hair icon herself, Julie Klausner, on the must-listen podcast How Was Your Week?! Listen in wherever you get your pods podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Attention beauty and #fashionsky editors: My book BEYOND VANITY: THE HISTORY AND POWER OF HAIRDRESSING is the first book on hair to win a fashion history book award. Let's chat! [email protected]