#Ootd is this 1959 Jacques Heim evening dress. It was apart of the cecil Beaton Collection. Beaton, famous fashion, society photographer, and overall personality. collected outfits from designers and the elite for his collection, which he exhibited in 1971. #Fashionhistory

Love someone back. Molly Brodak

Pop culture related writing klaxon, friends! Send them what you’ve got; I know I will be! ✍🏻💛

I think she may have just seen the taciturn and generally unfriendly Captain Hartfield emerging in some state of undress from a quick dip in the river and is now reevaluating her life choices. In the meantime she has stolen his towel. Early 1820s gown #thekyotocostumeinstitute #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

truly an all-timer, a titan in sitcom history. R.I.P.

Jessica Hagedorn

“Never let fear put your dreams to sleep.” Very cool of Stevie Wonder to deliver this one sentence sermon today.

Bill Knott wishing you a creatively fecund Thursday

Today's #ootd is this 1956 Balenciaga evening dress (pics 1 & 2). It is remarkably similar to Dior's 1957 "Du Berry evening dress (pic 3). In fact, I thought this was Du Berry at first. Was Dior's a copy? inspired? a reflection of bigger trends? Who knows?🤷‍♀️ #Fashionhistory

Bringing the sunniest of shades to the sharpest of pleats, Mme Grès immediately recognisable in the arrangement of the tiny folds and soft drape. It is an early #1970s silk jersey evening dress cascading in buttercup yellow #fondationazzedinealaia #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

New earworm unlocked / definitely the #BestSongHeardToday; thanks @daftlass90s.bsky.social! 😊🎶

Joshua Jackson and Paul Anthony Kelly came to the Bruno Cucinelli dinner in Florence to model very fine Italian suits and make poor accessorizing choices tomandlorenzo.com/2026/06/josh...

We're starting a journal! We're looking for ideas for pieces that we can fold into the proposal that will go to an interested press, with the hope that if the press take the journal on we'll starting publishing in 2028. #smellstudies #sensorystudies #smellhistory #smells

It's finally happening!

“Pick me up, walk me home / And it feels like God threw me a bone / Sticky sweet, tangerine / Would you sit and keep me company?” The more I listen to you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, the more I find myself loving “honeybee.”

Translation Tuesday! Very simple one: "Hat of crepe. Gown of levantine trimmed with self-fabric flounces." From the Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1818. hub.catalogit.app/search/genes... 🗃️🪡

Good news x2, RIVALS already renewed for season 3 and when it comes back in November for the back half of season 2 it will be the winter holidays in Rutshire (no, really; Dame Cooper was not a subtle author), with Bonfire Night, Christmas and New Year's celebrations on deck youtu.be/OYvaLbU34xQ?...

715 #IndieBookstores signed up to participate in this year's #BookstoreRomanceDay on August 15. How many more can we add in the next two months? bookstoreromanceday.org/participatin...

Beauty School Dropout forever. 💇🏻‍♀️💅🏻🎭🎶

This is a performance for the AGES.

American fashion and portrait photographer Irving Penn was born #OnThisDay in 1917. He photographed model Anne St. Marie wearing a James Galanos silk paisley print evening dress with bead embroidery and gilt thread for the October 1957 edition of Vogue. @metmuseum #fashionhistory

Rivals has been renewed for season 3, SEXY SAINTS BE PRAISED! deadline.com/2026/06/riva...

Goodnight. The Bridge of Sighs, John Everett Millais.

I love outfits that are reminiscent of old theatre costumes of mine, and this stunner is absolutely one of them! 🎭👗❤️

American fashion photographer and painter Lillian Bassman was born #OnThisDay in 1917. She photographed model Barbara Mullen at The Ritz in 1949, modelling a Dior black silk faille dress and black wool hat. Hat from the Met Museum collection. #photography #fashionhistory

For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.

Sometimes an ordinary hand shaped glove just isn’t enough and so you have to go for a fuchsia silk super glove instead, complete with extravagant sheer drapery. Schiaparelli applied her love of exuberance and a shocking colour in this #1950s design #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

It's possible to derive joy from other people's joy.

Brother had an INDUSTRIAL Singer no less. He's out here freehanding machine embroidery to commemorate the win! Wild.

“It’s a city of strangers / Some come to work, some to play / A city of strangers/ Some come to stare, some to stay / And every day, the ones who stay / Can find each other in the crowded streets / And the guarded parks / By the rusty fountains and the dusty trees / With the battered barks”

Catherine, Princess of Wales, attended Trooping the Colour #OnThisDay in 2025. She wore the "Bria" aquamarine wool coatdress with ivory contrast lapels and cuffs designed by Catherine Walker, accessorised with an asymmetric wide-brim Juliette Botterill hat. #fashionhistory

Elizabeth Hawes had such a rebellious spirit. I love this photograph of her alongside the beautifully constructed 1938 dress that she designed, the stripes of the cloth placed to create lovely fabric geometry @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Took my students to see the sketch for this one in @uclalibrary.bsky.social last month!

Reading this wild and wonderful British Vogue profile of Jerry Hall makes me want to rewatch the A&E Biography of Nina Van Horn episode of Just Shoot Me! that she guest starred in as Nina’s former roommate.

They look as if they could be giving each other’s dresses the once over as they pass each other, one in bright pink, the other in jade green satin. Both are Givenchy with a flourish of feathers @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Let love and colour into your life. Hold hands.

you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love is incredible & a whole musical novel really (maybe it’s me, but I feel like “u + me = <3” is for the elder millennials w/ its ‘90s rom-com soundtrack vibes), but can we please talk about how “what’s wrong with me?” is a duet with THE Robert Smith himself?!

This mix is as dreamy and gorgeous as Shane says it is and is just the bit of joy needed for a slightly dreary Monday! 🎶❤️

Take a day off and rest Just rest No action items No agendas Just rest

Not holiday, per se, but thematically adjacent, BBC/Britbox period drama CHOCOLATE WARS. Based on the book by Deborah Cadbury, adapted by Chloë Mi Lin Ewart (ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL), with filming set to begin in August, for an expected 2027 premiere Release: press.britbox.com/post/britbox...

Still a little sore about Nathan Lane & Christopher Abbott’s Tony losses last night (hurrah hurrah for Laurie Metcalf though! 🎭❤️), but this bit from Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney is cheering me up because it’s still just as good as when I first saw it and Christopher Lloyd is always such a joy.

Never forgiving Apple TV for canceling the show after the songs for the planned third season were all already written.

In honor of Schmigadoon winning Best Musical at the Tony Awards, here's my favorite song from the first season of the original television show.

#Ootd is this 1961 Dior Rio dress by Marc Bohan. It was worn by Elizabeth Taylor at the Oscars when she won Best Actress for the film BUtterfield 8...yes the BU are capitalized. The pale yellow chiffon bodice is over a boned inner corset of organza. Meanwhile the silk faille

bubble skirt is embroidered in various insects and flowers. The skirt also has 5 layers of stiffened tulle petticoats! The dress was found in a suitcase and was sold at auction in 2023 and it was sold for £248,000 aka about $36,000 today. #Fashionhistory