Worn #onthisday in 1929 by a member of the Monro family. The ivory satin "Christmas Cake" costume trimmed with ribbon, paper frills, and figures of Santa Claus, robins, and holly sprigs has a hooped skirt and a matching satin beret, a cake board, and a knife. Happy #Christmas from WOTD! 📷 V&A Museum

Floral leis worn #onthisday in 2009 by the Obama family, arriving at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hi, for #Christmas vacation. Earlier that day, President Obama had hailed the Senate's "historic" passage of a health care bill ending a "century-long struggle" for reform. #OTD @gettyimages.com

#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 23: Frozen fractals swirl on this embroidered raw silk gown and 16-foot train made by Brussels couture house G. Valens and worn by Marie-Caroline Lefevre, the daughter of Belgian Prime Minister Theo Lefevre, at her December 1970 wedding to Toni Van De Wiele in Ghent.

Fur turban worn #onthisday in 1963 by fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert in her New York, NY, office. In 1943, Lambert started New York Fashion Week (then called Press Week) as a showcase for US designers; she also launched the Council of Fashion Designers of America and the Coty Awards. @apnews.com

"Votes for Women" sashes worn #onthisday in 1908 by four suffragettes on white horses, part of a procession escorting Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst to a breakfast celebration at London's Court Hotel upon their release from Holloway women's prison--a suffragette tradition. #OTD 📷 London Museum

Worn #onthisday in 1988 by Michael Bernstein, a U.S. Justice Department attorney who prosecuted Nazi war criminals, when he died in the Pan Am 103 terrorist bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, along with 269 other people. #OTD 📷 Syracuse University Library

Burgundy and black silk brocade gown worn #onthisday in 1849 by Harriet Rogers Burnett--wife of California's first American governor, Peter Hardemann Burnett--to her husband's Inauguration Ball in San Jose, CA. #OTD 📷 History San Jose

Dreidel costume worn #onthisday in 2022 by children's musician Rabbi B to perform Hanukkah songs at a public lighting of a giant menorah made of ice on the second night of the Jewish holiday in Toronto, Canada. #OTD @gettyimages.com

#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 18: Edna Hoyt wed Harry B. Rogers in November 1888 at her parents' home in New Canaan, CT. Her silk gown, now in the New Canaan Museum, is exquisitely embroidered with flowers worked in crystalline silver and glass beads that make it sparkle as if rimed with frost.

Worn #onthisday in 1955 by divorcee Kay Daumit at her #wedding to Joseph Binns in New York, followed by a reception at the Waldorf Astoria. She wore a velvet Dior hat with a Mainbocher dress in her favorite color, “Romney blue." A fitted underskirt preserved her dignity from icy gusts. #OTD 📷 MCNY

#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 17: Get thee a wife! Sir Laurence Oliver gave away the bride when Australian actors Frank Thring and Joan Cunliffe wed in Stratford-upon-Avon in November 1955. She had her ruched cognac and black silk dress by Melbourne designer Hall Ludlow flown in from Down Under.

Father Christmas costume and mask worn #onthisday in 1942 at a Christmas party held at Admiralty House in London. The child is Winston Churchill Jr., the Prime Minister's grandson, in the short pants and Mary Jane-style shoes worn year-round by young boys at the time. #OTD 📷 Imperial War Museums

Seasonal water skis worn #onthisday in 1969 by performers at Cypress Gardens, a botanical garden and theme park near Winter Haven, FL, known as the "Water Ski Capital of the World." The site is now home to Legoland Florida. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Santa Claus costume worn #onthisday in 2024 by Finnish diver Kristian Maki-Jussila, doing a "Dods" dive into a frozen lake in Sundom, Finland. "Dods" ("dead") divers jump from extreme heights, arms out and belly first, landing in a cannonball or a shrimp position. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Paper party hats worn #onthisday in 1941 by uniformed officers toasting the King at a Christmas party in the wardroom of the HMS Westminster at Rosyth, Scotland. The destroyer was part of the Royal Navy's Rosyth Escort Force, protecting shipping convoys in home waters. #OTD 📷 Imperial War Museums

Mink-trimmed gown worn #onthisday in 1966 by First Daughter Lynda Bird Johnson, dancing with George Peppard in the White House Entrance Hall following a dinner for members of the National Council on the Arts. She had worn the same gown to the Oscars as George Hamilton's date earlier that year. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 2017 by surfers in Carpinteria, CA: gas masks to filter smoke from the Thomas Fire that ravaged Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. It was fourth-largest wildfire in California history at the time; it now only the ninth-largest. #OTD

#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 11: Arline Steward wed her college sweetheart Howard Nelson in a Lakefield, MN, church in October 1935, wearing a glamorous gown "of peach velvet with a matching hat and carrying chrysanthemums," per the Minneapolis Journal. Rhinestones and pintucks trim the bodice.

Santa-coded costume worn #onthisday in 2010 by Katy Perry to perform at the Y100 Jingle Ball at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, FL. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Pearl-encrusted white tulle Nina Ricci gown worn #onthisday in 2001 by Queen Silvia of Sweden at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm. Twelve years later, her daughter Princess Madeleine wore it at her #wedding reception. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 1929 by Mrs. Robert L. Stevens, photographed by Edward Steichen costumed as Greta Garbo for a masquerade ball given by Muriel Maxwell in the Crystal Room at the Ritz in Paris, France. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Period finery worn #onthisday in 2024 by New Yorkers participating in the annual vintage subway train ride hosted by the New York Transit Museum on 1930 train cars between 2nd Ave. and Houston Street on the F line, and 96th Street and 2nd Ave. on the Q line in New York, NY. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Roy Boreen's watch, worn on this day in 1941 on the USS Oklahoma and now in the @wwiimuseum.bsky.social, inspired my @runningpressbooks.bsky.social book "Worn On This Day: The Clothes That Made History." It's stopped at 8:04 am, when he dove overboard as the ship exploded. He died in 2022, age 102.

Worn #onthisday in 1697 by Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy, 15, and Marie Adelaide of Savoy, 12, at their #wedding at the chateau de Versailles in France. In Antoine Dieu's 1715 painting, the men wear red-heeled shoes, a fashion started by Louis XIV, the groom's grandfather, in the gold coat. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 1918 by a French soldier whose right eye and cheek were mutilated in World War I: a mask made by Anna Coleman Ladd, a Boston artist and sculptor who partnered with the Red Cross to open a Studio for Portrait Masks in Paris in 1917. #OTD 📷 Library of Congress

Worn #onthisday in 1966 by models in the Ebony Fashion Fair--an annual traveling fashion show organized by Eunice Johnson, whose husband published Ebony and Jet magazines, that brought the latest Paris and New York fashions to the Black community--at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. #OTD @unlv.edu

Worn #onthisday in 1977 by Empress Catherine at the Napoleon-inspired coronation of her husband, Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa, in Bangui, Kenya: a gold lame gown hand-sewn with 780,000 tiny pearls. Her 8 maids of honor wore white, pink, and red gowns with floppy sunhats. #OTD 📷 Mohamed Amin Foundation

Carolina Herrera ballgown worn #onthisday in 1995 by First Lady Hillary Clinton in the Blue Room of the White House, at a reception before the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony. The Fraser fir tree was decorated with 3,500 handmade ornaments inspired by the poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas." #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 1972 by Barbara Davis at her city hall #wedding to Thomas F. Frey in Paris, France. She had purchased the double-knit wool minidress with trompe l'oeil pockets at the Miss Dior boutique the previous month. #OTD @chicagomuseum.bsky.social

#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 1: Silver belle! Actress Ann Todd wore "heavy damask material in pure white, with a pattern of silver clouds" to wed Victor Malcolm in London in December 1933, per the Daily Record. Helene Galin designed the gown and train edged in Todd's grandmother's Limerick lace.

Worn #onthisday in 1905 by a boy's brass band and their leader, J. Milton Smith, in Etna Mills, CA--possibly the one from nearby Yreka. The Siskiyou Daily News had praised it earlier that year, saying: "The boys rendered several difficult pieces in a most creditable manner." #OTD 📷 CSU Chico Library

It's the most wonderful time of the year--time for my #WinterWeddingAdventCalendar! As I learned while writing my @Running_Press book “The Way We Wed: A Global History of Wedding Fashion,” I *love* a winter wedding. Follow along here starting tomorrow for daily flurries of fashion history and inspo!

Sari worn #onthisday in 2013 by Nandini Harinath, project manager and mission designer on the Indian Space Research Organization Mars Orbiter Mission, called Mangalyaan, at mission control in Sriharikota during the spacecraft’s successful Trans-Martian Injection. #OTD 📷 National Air and Space Museum

Worn #onthisday in 1999 by protestors at the World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in Seattle, WA. Hundreds of people made cardboard turtle costumes in response to the WTO's decision to allow the use of shrimp nets harmful to sea turtles in the name of free trade. #OTD @mohaiseattle.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1928 by C.I. Alizon Scott at her #wedding to Harry Vere Upton in London, per The Telegraph: "a pearl-embroidered gown of ivory georgette, with a train of old lace, lent by her grandmother." The bridesmaids wore red georgette gowns, red velvet hats, and gold bags. #OTD 📷 V&A Museum

Beige wool dress with blue trim and blue wool coat worn #onthisday in 1862 by Martha (Mattie) Clark at her #wedding to John Cummins in Eden Prairie, MN. That day, John noted in his diary: "No longer a bachelor." #OTD 📷 Minnesota Historical Society

Worn #onthisday in 1937 by actress Jill Esmond, trying on her "principal boy" costume for "Beauty and the Beast"--a Christmas pantomine staged by the Lyceum Theatre--at Will Clarkson's wig and costume studio in London. It was the first time she had ever worn tights. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social

Silk scarf worn #onthisday in 1952 by Second Lieutenant Christopher "Kit" Hoare, 21, of the Royal Fusiliers when he was killed in action while leading a nighttime raid on a Chinese position in Kigong-Ni during the Korean War. Only 7 out of 21 men in his platoon survived. #OTD 📷 Imperial War Museum

Worn #onthisday in 1906 by Hazel Pingree at her #wedding to Sherman Depew in Detroit, MI. The @freep.com described her "white chiffon and liberty satin" wedding gown "made Empire fashion and trimmed with pointe de Venice lace" and "tiara of the same lace" with veil. #OTD 📷 Detroit Historical Society

Worn #onthisday in 1932 by lacrosse players at St. Alban's Ladies Club in Hertfordshire, UK. The gymslip, at right, was a sleeveless, belted tunic reaching from the shoulder to the knee, worn over a blouse, that traditionally served as a sports uniform for British schoolgirls. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1963 by Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie, who were riding in the car with President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas, TX. The governor was shot in the back but recovered. #OTD @gettyimages.com @tslac.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1984 by Glenda Jackson in the title role of Jean Racine's play "Phaedra" when it premiered at the Old Vic in London. Director Philip Prowse designed the costumes; one critic complained that the actresses looked "as if they were trapped in ornate gas balloons." #OTD 📷 V&A Museum

Worn #onthisday in 2016 by President Barack Obama and other APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) leaders for a group photo at their summit in Lima, Peru: brown shawls made from the fine, undyed wool of the vicuna, a llama-like creature that dwells in the Andes mountains. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Traditional Korean overcoats called "durumagi" worn #onthisday in 2005 by President George W. Bush and other APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) leaders for a group photo at their summit on Dongbaek Island in Busan, Korea. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Batik worn #onthisday in 1998 by Vice President Al Gore and other APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) leaders for a group photo at an economic summit near Kuala Lumpur. Batik is a wax-resist dyeing technique; Malaysian batik is more colorful and less intricate than the Indonesian variety. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 1915 on the hospital ship HMHS Anglia, carrying wounded troops from the Dardanelles, when it was mined in the English Channel, killing half of the 385 aboard. French troops in the Dardanelles wore helmets like this one. It washed ashore at Hythe, UK. #OTD 📷 Imperial War Museums

Worn #onthisday in 1940 by a wartime first aid worker in the River Emergency Service in London. Per the Evening Standard, she wore "a neat all-in-one, zip-fastened trouser suit in navy blue gabardine, with 'R.E.S.' emblazoned on the left side" and a matching cap with ear flaps. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1938 by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy to the State Banquet honoring King Carol II of Romania and his son, Crown Prince Michael, at Buckingham Palace in London. Her husband, Joseph, the new US Ambassador to Great Britain, was one of 15 ambassadors invited. #OTD @jfklibraryfdn.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1946 by Bonnie Birnbaum at her #wedding in New York, NY. The silk taffeta and silk crepe gown by Norman Norell has a lace-up corset-style bodice inspired by the fashions of the 1780s combined with large puffed sleeves reminiscent of the 1890s. #OTD 📷 Newfields

Worn #onthisday in 1947 by Mrs. H. David Kroll (in black crepe with sequins) and Rose Barker Cohn (also in black) on the opening night of the LA Philharmonic's season in Los Angeles, CA. Fur coats had fallen out of fashion during World War II but returned that fall. #OTD @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social