Teal silk gown worn #onthisday in 1871 by Alice Elizabeth Daniels at her #wedding to Russell Bunce at Saint John's Church in Hartford, CT. #OTD 📷 Connecticut Museum of Culture and History

Second-hand clothes shop, Seven Dials, St Giles, London, 1877-78. Photograph by John Thomson (1837-1921). More here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O78700/...

'Joyous' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomensArt

Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik

May Morris

Pocket https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/96674

I LOVE being thrown a scrap of hope occasionally.

#OtD 4 Nov 1921 Paris Communard and anarchist Victorine Rouchy died aged 83. She joined the militia and fought on the barricades when the army came to retake the city, but was arrested alongside her husband. Condemned to death, but escaped stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1046...

Always pleasing to come across an exhibition dedicated to women’s history. Visions Voices Vocations, Commemorating Women of the First World War. Well done @yorkminster.bsky.social

I am so looking forward to sharing stories of makers in my book, published next spring. Caroline Gentry was a crape finisher for Courtaulds at Bocking Mill in Essex. She was one amongst many who created the crinkled fabric worn for mourning, dress c1902 dress @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

For the second year running we hosted another sell out Magic Lantern Show with Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker and Costas Fotopoulos improvising at the piano! This time with added floating skeleton. T Thank you to everyone that came and we hope to see you next year!" #Halloween #MagicLanternSociety

‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft seen at the NYPL. 📸: my own

[elbows way through slew of Halloween posts] It’s eerie, it’s a bit revolting, it’s rammed with history – my ‘Bodysnatching & Anatomy in London’ study day is now booking, at Highgate Lit & Sci, Sat 22 November: hlsi.org.uk/courses/day-...

Boo! Silk mourning dress, British, ca 1820. More here via The Museum at FIT: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

It’s that time of year when I crave a proper wool coat. Double breasted double face wool, coat designed by Philippe Venet, France, 1963. Read more here via The Museum at FIT: fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/6336...

Wearing my new €12 reading glasses like….👓

Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”

My lovely friend @aoyarzabal.bsky.social was the subject of a frightening verbal assault by a xenophobe in London today. He writes, ‘If you ever witness something like this — please don’t look away. Check in with the person being targeted. A small act of kindness can make a huge difference.’

Here’s a midweek tonic. Jacques Fath ballgown with cape, pale pink satin, embroidered bodice, Paris, c1948. Via The National Museum of Scotland.

If you’re struggling with uncertainty, low mood, struggling to like yourself today or are just exhausted & overwhelmed by everything, hey, me too, you’re not alone-this photo’s for you and your brain. Sending love 🌿

It’s time to wrap up warm. British cape, wool & silk, ca 1867. Via The Met here: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Just had this photo restored (see post below): my grandmother, a Boston teacher, in 1914 setting off for Europe on the trip of a lifetime - London, Paris, Switzerland, Germany. It was July and.. war was declared by August. Cue banks shutting, borders closing. Publishing her diary in a few weeks 1/2

A visit to the Musee Galerie Dior.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

It’s time to wrap up warm. British cape, wool & silk, ca 1867. Via The Met here: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

This is one of my favourite silhouettes, the sharp structure created by a c1790 redingote. It has the trappings of male tailoring whilst retaining the contemporary expectations of femininity. And as for the fabric….. #LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

💀It has to be done. The Elsa Schiaparelli Skeleton Dress, made Paris, 1938. Via The V&A. Read all about it here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O65687/...

26 October 1944 | A Polish girl Anna Bogdańska was born in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She received no. 89097. Her mother Kazimiera Bogdańska had been deported from Warsaw in August. They both survived until liberation.

'What's for pudding today?' (1943) Margaret Gere was a painter who turned her sharp eye on to the homely, humdrum life of the household and the tavern; her interiors are populated with believable characters and believable scenes.

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💀It has to be done. The Elsa Schiaparelli Skeleton Dress, made Paris, 1938. Via The V&A. Read all about it here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O65687/...

I know it’s early but my #Christmas card and gift wrap collection is now available in my online shop www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...

🎶 Beaded & sequinned cotton tulle dance dress, France, c1925. Via NGV Melbourne.

#FridayFrocks - Evening gown by Jean Varon, c.1971 – 74, of #Green nylon chiffon, with rose-pink lining. Influential British designer John Bates (1935 - 2022), launched the Jean Varon label in 1960.

Dress, British, ca1825. Via The Met.

A glimpse of Twenties fashion through the notes of a budding dressmaker in 1926 A student at Gloucestershire Training College of Domestic Science, W.B. Wakefield's notebooks record the practical study deemed suitable for a young woman in the 1920s mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/ATD/...

@channel4news.bsky.social Watching the Covid enquiry with Boris Johnson being questioned. The combination of a pandemic no-one was prepared for plus the most inadequate PM in recent history was catastrophic for many 💔

T-strap evening sandals, Frank Brothers, USA, c1932. Silk brocade & gold metallic leather. More here via The Museum at FIT: fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/1097...

#Ootd is this 1919 Paul Poiret evening cloak made of orange velvet with edges embroidered with metallic threads and thin strips. It features vague Oriental motifs and bright colors, as we have seen elsewhere in Poiret's work, but I can't get enough of its gorgeous effect. #fashionhistory #paulpoiret

This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this yellow tulle evening dress with an embellished bodice embroidered with silver and ivory glass beads that form an Art Deco motif. Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation. #fashionhistory

This tailored dolman dating to the late #1880s made by Belgravia tailor Hulbert Beach. Careful pattern arrangement ensures the paisley motifs are symmetrical. I love the deep pleats at the back which must have rippled to reveal the pattern within @jbrightcollection.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Collar https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/96333

Dior’s 1950 Debussy dress might have grown from the ocean floor, a crustacean of a dress covered in shell like embellishments and water droplet sequins. The gown for a mermaid stepping foot ashore to cast her spell on mere mortals #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

For what it’s worth, here’s my photo of Empress Eugénie’s exquisite bodice brooch. No, it wasn’t me.

Cristóbal Balenciaga evening jacket, 1949. Velvet, embroidery & jet beads. More here via The Museum at FIT: fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/1406...

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1905 crape mourning hat and veil, Vienna Museum, Austria Heavy crape mourning turban without a veil, Dry Goods Reporter, 1905 Flattened mourning hats were a trend c. 1905. www.europeana.eu/item/2048206...

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Then fix it.

In his latest book, historian @tricksterprince.bsky.social reveals the surprising history of the remarkable neighbourhood of Seven Dials in #London in the 1920s and 30s. The story he reveals tackles issues - race, class and gentrification - that would define the kind of city London would become.

Vito is one very special human #strictly