Worn #onthisday in 1914 by clerks crossing in Hyde Park during a heatwave--a rare glimpse of men without coats. As temperatures reached 87F, counsellors in the House of Commons "removed their wigs, while several M.P.'s divested themselves of their coats," The Daily Graphic noted. #OTD 📷️ Getty Images

Gown of embroidered net and lace worn #onthisday in 1910 by Martha Scholz at her #wedding to Nicholas Klesen at St. Nicholas Church in Chicago, IL. The high neckline and "monobosom" silhouette reflect contemporary fashion trends. #OTD @chicagomuseum.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1918 by an @americanredcross.bsky.social nurse. The red-lined dark blue cape was "worn with the brilliant lining thrown smartly over the left shoulder. To the public it is the cape of poems and posters and plays and stories. To the nurse it is protection against cold." #OTD 📷️ NARA

Flight suit worn #onthisday in 1965 over a shirt and tie by Rep. Ed Reinecke (R-Tujunga), right, to fly twice the speed of sound in an X-105 piloted by Major Bob Rushworth, left, at Edwards Air Force Base in Antelope Valley, CA. #OTD @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social

Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods worn #onthisday in 1924 by @notredame.bsky.social students who ripped them off Klansmen who tried to hold a 3-day rally in South Bend, IN. About 500 students chased the racists through the streets, beat them up in alleys, and stole their regalia as battle trophies. #OTD

Gas mask and goggles worn #onthisday in 1916 by a dog at the French military kennels at Roesbrugge, Belgium. Horses and dogs were just as susceptible to gas attacks as humans during World War I, and the military took measures to protect them. #OTD 📷️ Imperial War Museums

Worn #onthisday in 1917 by students at W.T. Wilkins Music School in Los Angeles, CA, for their end-of-year recital. Wilkins was a musician and the first Black employee of Edison Light and Power Co. He opened the first interracial music school in Los Angeles in 1912. #OTD @UCLALibrary.bsky.social

Sailor gown worn #onthisday in 1968 by Lyn Revson (with its designer, Norman Norell) to the Feather Ball in New York, NY. Per Bill Cunningham, many of the guests wore "graduation dresses" with "giant puffed sleeves and hoop-size skirts...tightly sashed in taffeta butterfly bows." #OTD @metmuseum.org

Worn #onthisday in 1960 by senior Linda Detrick (third from right) as part of the Redford Union High School prom court in Dearbourn, MI. She had the gown made by a Detroit dressmaker in her favorite color, blue, for $60--"a lot of money in 1960," she remembered. #OTD @thehenryford.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1940--Whitsunday--by Hjördis Nygren at her #wedding to Anders Backman in Frösö Church in Frösön, Sweden. The pale blue dress and veil and silver leather shoes were provided by local ladies' hairdresser Elin Swedberg. @europeana.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1956 by actor Peter Brownlee at a rehearsal for the opera "The Queen of Spades" at Covent Garden in London, being fitted for a costume by artist Olivier Messel, who designed it. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Union Jack aprons worn #onthisday in 1975 by women waiting at Osaka Airport to welcome Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to Japan on their first and only State Visit. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1978 for a dance contest at Dillon's, a 3-story discotheque in Los Angeles, CA. "For many club-goers, their 'Disco duds' are just as important as their 'Disco moves,' especially when competing against other dancers," the Herald Examiner reported. #OTD @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social

Uniform coat of plain wool and hat worn #onthisday in 1862 by of Col. Simeon Buford Gibbons of the 10th Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States Army when he was killed in the Battle of McDowell near McDowell, VA. #OTD 📷 Manassas National Battlefield Park

Silk chiffon Hardy Amies gown worn #onthisday in 1977 (with Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee necklace) by Queen Elizabeth II to a dinner for world leaders, including President Jimmy Carter, at Buckingham Palace following the G7 Summit. #OTD 📷️ Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Royal Collection Trust

Worn #onthisday in 1929 by immigration officers escorting rejected migrants from a train station to a boat destined for Ellis Island, NY. From there, they would be returned to their countries of origin. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Pressurized spacesuit worn #onthisday in 1965 by a test subject in the Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator at the Lunar Landing Facility, part of NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA, used to prepare for Apollo Moon landings. #OTD 📷 NASA

Cosplay worn #onthisday in 2014 by fans celebrating Star Wars day outside the Colosseum in Rome, Italy. #OTD #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #StarWarsDay @gettyimages.com

Tartan trousers worn #onthisday in 1957 by Pablo Picasso in Cannes, France. The artist had become enamoured of classic Savile Row tailoring while designing the Ballets Russes' production of "The Three-Cornered Hat" in London in 1919. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1929 by Mrs. Charles Leonard Ellinger as the Goddess of the Sacred Aquamarine at the annual Charity Carnival to benefit the Judson Health Center at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY. Col. A.A. Anderson, a painter and big game hunter, designed her costume. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1891 by Jessie, the May Queen of Whitelands College, a teacher training school in London, and her court. Artist Kate Greenaway designed the queen's gown as a favor to the event's benefactor, art critic John Ruskin. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 2013 by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands at her husband's coronation ceremony at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. Dutch designer Jan Taminiau made her royal blue cape and gown with lace and beading at the neckline. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 1924 by heiress Cornelia Vanderbilt for her #wedding at her family's Biltmore estate in Asheville, NC. Society dressmakers Farquharson & Wheelock made her white satin gown with its lace tunic and tulle train and veil incorporating her grandmother’s heirloom rose-point lace. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 1923 by West Ham captain George Kay and Boston Wanderers captain Joe Smith, shaking hand for the shorts-suited ref before the kickoff of the first ever FA Cup final match played at the newly completed Wembley Stadium in London. The Bolton Wanderers won 2-0. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Flowered hat and tailor-made ensemble worn #onthisday in 1909 by a woman--possibly Francine Edwards Williamson, a relative of Rosa Parks--photographed at the State Street studio of J.B. Wilson in Chicago, IL. #OTD @librarycongress.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1987 by the hair-metal band Poison, posing for an @latimes.com profile in Hollywood, CA. "With the band members' pretty faces aglitter with makeup on the cover of their million-selling album, Poison looks like an all-female band," the reporter wrote. #OTD @uclalibrary.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1792 by highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, the first person to be executed by guillotine--a new and allegedly humane method of execution--in Paris: a red shirt, the prescribed attire for someone convicted of murder. #OTD @labnf.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1950 by the bridal party at the Arrowsmith-Price #wedding in Ellesmere, UK. Eight years of wartime clothing rationing had ended the previous spring, making elaborate white weddings possible and popular once more. #OTD 📸 National Library of Wales

Worn #onthisday in 1661--St. George's Day, the feast day of the patron saint of England--by King Charles II at his coronation in Westminster Abbey in London. New regalia had to be made for the event; most of the Crown Jewels were broken up and sold after King Charles I's 1649 execution. #OTD 📷 RCT

Worn #onthisday in 1886--#MaundyThursday, a traditional day for royal confirmations--by Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein at her confirmation in the Royal Chapel at Windsor, UK: "white satin, devoid of trimmings or ornament of any kind," per the Tamworth Herald. #OTD 📷 Royal Collection Trust

Worn #onthisday in 1967 by pro wrestler Samuel "Samba Lumumba" Lewis at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA. "When I put on my uniform, I mean business," he said. "It's not for kicks or fun, it's for money. It's like a woman getting dressed up in her finest gown going to a ball." #OTD 📷 LAPL

Worn #onthisday in 1863 by Princess Victoria, daughter of Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, with her nurse, Mrs. Hannah Clarke, at Windsor Castle, where she had been born two weeks earlier in the presence of her grandmother and namesake, Queen Victoria. #OTD 📷 Royal Collection Trust

Worn #onthisday in 1865 at President Abraham Lincoln's funeral in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Diplomats in ceremonial garb made a "glittering group," per a reporter, while military men were told to wear the "usual badge of mourning" on their left arms and sword hilts. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 1923 by Ruth Meyers at her #wedding to Leonard H. Heller at the Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis, MN. The gown of white charmeuse with a court train edged in antique rosepoint lace and a matching veil was made by Frances & Co. of New York. #OTD 📷 Minnesota Historical Society

Navy-issued shearling coat worn #onthisday in 1943 by Lt. George Kletzker, a Coast Guard gunnery officer serving aboard the USCG Cutter Spencer in the Atlantic southwest of Ireland, when the ship sank a German U-boat, U-175, and captured its crew. #OTD @mohistorymuseum.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1994 by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder when the band performed on Saturday Night Live in New York, NY, eight days after Kurt Cobain’s death. Vedder wrote “KURDT” on his guitar and a “K” over his heart on his T-shirt in trubute. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Uncle Sam costume and sunglasses worn #onthisday in 2009 by a Florida man protesting in front of the State Capitol in Tallahassee, FL, as part of a "Tax Day Tea Party." #OTD 📷 State Library and Archives of Florida

Worn #onthisday in 1963--Easter Sunday--by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in Palm Beach, FL, with white gloves and a white lace mantilla. The mauve linen sheath by Oleg Cassini has a decorative quatrefoil motif reminiscent of a cross applied to front. #OTD @jfklibraryfdn.bsky.social

Matching Easter bonnets and dresses worn #onthisday in 1952--Easter Sunday--by the 19-month-old Coles quadruplets of London: Patricia, Frances, Edna, and Marie. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social

Face covering worn #onthisday in 2003 by a woman protesting the Iraq War in downtown Washington D.C. The anti-war demonstration was organized by the ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition, founded 3 days after the attacks of September 11, 2011. #OTD 📸 Ben Schumin, Wikimedia Commons

Beaded white Bob Mackie gown worn #onthisday in 1983 by Cher, who joined Placido Domingo to present the Academy Award for Best Score to John Williams for "E.T." in Los Angeles, CA. #OTD @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social @theacademyusa.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1908 at an Arbor Day tree-planting at Public School #4 in New York, NY. First celebrated in Nebraska in 1872, Arbor Day has now inspired similar festivities worldwide. #OTD @librarycongress.bsky.social

Houndstooth suit worn #onthisday in 1959 by Jacqueline Kennedy to attend Mass on the campaign trail with her husband in Middleburg, VA. Designer Bob Bugnand had salons in Paris and New York; though his US clients were fitted in New York, their clothes were Paris-made. #OTD @jfklibraryfdn.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1962 by Joan Crawford to the rehearsal for the next day's Academy Awards ceremony at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, CA. She presented the Best Actor award, serving champagne to the backstage crew in her dressing room while awaiting her cue. #OTD @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social

Costumes worn #onthisday in 1962 by the Hollywood Square Dancers to perform in the 15th annual International Folk Dance Festival at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA, hosted by actress Greer Garson. #OTD @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social

Court suit and sword worn #onthisday in 1870 by Charles Dickens to a levee at Buckingham Palace. The suit, made by tailors Charles Smith and Sons according to the strict specifications for court dress, is the only known suit worn by Dickens to have survived. #OTD 📷 Guildhall Art Gallery

Worn #onthisday in 1924 by children dressed up for a mock #wedding in Coral Gables, FL. #OTD 📷 State Library and Archives of Florida

Worn #onthisday in 1960 by Janet Leigh at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, CA. Edith Head designed the 20-lb. gown of 186,000 silver-lined Czechoslovakian bugle beads hand-crocheted to chiffon dyed to match Leigh's skin. #OTD @gettyimages.com @theacademyusa.bsky.social 📷 Wisconsin Historical Society

Silk wedding gown and lace veil decorated with wax orange blossoms worn #onthisday in 1929 by Domenica San Giorgio at her #wedding. #OTD @thehenryford.bsky.social

Hat worn #onthisday in 1801 by Admiral Horatio Nelson when he led the Royal Navy to victory at the Battle of Copenhagen. He gave it to his sword cutler, Mr. Salter, who displayed it in his shop window, black card replacing the chelengk the Ottoman sultan gave Nelson. #OTD 📷 Royal Museums Greenwich