This is a complicated fabric, a cream silk with supplementary weft floral pattern alongside which a printed purple and green flower trails. The 1840s was a decade of textile technology triumphs, pleated and folded into shape #LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Fashion designer and businesswoman Jenna Lyons was born #OnThisDay in 1968. She was the executive creative director and president of J.Crew when First Lady Michelle Obama chose this green silk jacquard pencil skirt and embellished cardigan to wear in 2009. @ObamaFoundation #fashionhistory

Bag https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/100945

She is all pale pink satin and demure on the outside but sparkly and bedazzling beneath in a dress covered entirely in gold beads. The sleekness of the coat proclaims the ensemble as an early #1960s Balenciaga #museobalenciaga #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Sailor hat https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/96901

I would like to have a Claire McCardell in every colour, one for each day of the week. Her 1950s wool jersey ensemble features a funnel neckline with batwing style sleeves, her cord ties at the waist with a full & flowy skirt. My perfect wardrobe thank you very much #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

#Ottd is this 1960 Dior "Polynésie" (Polynesia) evening dress made by Yves Saint Laurent. It is made of zibeline, usually a wool, but here is a stiff heavy silk, which allows the skirt to maintain its structure. The bodice is the star though with its extravagant embroidery of

Handkerchief https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/102337

This dress is just crying out for a dance floor upon which to twirl. The pleats, fluted edges and tiers of fabric are bluebell like, a disco belle blooming on a summer’s evening. John Bates for Jean Varon, 1973 #FashionMuseumBath #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

‘June’ watercolour made c1785. More here via The V&A: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O602550...

A very dejected daschund this morning, one who objects to a wet walk. For Unsuitable Dog Walk Attire then, a #1940s evening dress by Germaine Monteil that almost matches Vincent’s waterproof coat in solidarity #goldsteinmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, was born #OnThisDay in 1872. She was photographed by Gustav William Henry Mullins in August 1894, prior to her marriage to Tsar Nicholas II, wearing this German-made pink silk and chiffon gown. State Hermitage Museum collection. #fashionhistory

Slippers https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/96900

I have shared it before & no doubt I will share it again at some point. It is basically my comfort cape, an image that I love & perfect for a tired Friday brain. A c1900 embellished green velvet and white chiffon cape like a bird about to take flight @mfaboston.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

First communion dress worn #onthisday in 1950 by a young communicant in Brussels, Belgium. The bias-cut organdy dress is embellished with rows of diagonal pintucks and fastens at the back with eleven mother-of-pearl buttons. #OTD 📷️ Musées de la Ville de Bruxelles

Dress https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/95661

Apparently when a new collection by George Stavropoulos arrived in Oalm Beach in the seventies, it was a sign that party season had begun. This cheery chiffon hopefully had some fun times, the wearer floating in her dreamy dress #goldsteinmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

‘Nothing left to chance' for Bayeux Tapestry's journey to London www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So several degrees below the temperature this time last week. Enter the shawl… Shawl of pashmina wool, Kashmir, ca 1780. More here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O482095...

Wedding ensemble https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/101882

This is a style that can often be divisive, the mid #1830s and its dramatic sleeve coupled with ‘extra’ decoration. It is certainly not everyone’s cup of tea but I for one love it! It demands attention for sure, DeWitt Wallace Collection #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Here we have another Dior dress named after a location- his 1956 Monte Carlo dress. It was named for Grace Kelly after her marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco that same year. She wore a light blue version to a Sporting Club party on August 28 (below), about four months after

This week's #ThirtiesThursday garment is this Augustabernard Spring 1934 brown silk charmeuse bias-cut evening dress with the shoulders and neckline of the bodice in bright green velvet that gathers to form an oversize bow. Museum at FIT collection. #fashionhistory

Dior’s 1955 dress ‘Fête au Village’ is a celebration of florals, rows of pink puds stitched around and around the gown with sprays of lush green leaves. Cocktail length or ballgown? #NGVMelbourne #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Dress https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/96292

It may not always be very visible in museum exhibitions but every dress collection represents different body shapes across the decades. This is a mid 1790s glazed printed cotton gown in a dizzying pattern of pinks created for a slightly larger body #LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

American-born French dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker was born #OnThisDay in 1906. This cut-out mesh costume, embellished with a scalloped design of metal beads, textured sequins and rhinestones, was worn by Baker in the 1930s. Sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions. #fashionhistory

#Ootd is another Dior dress named after a country...well, three dresses. Each of these dresses are entitled "Mexico." Again, Dior never visited Mexico, but he was inspired by what he knew of its culture and aesthetics. Here is one from 1953. Wallis Simpson, then the Duchess of

Handkerchief https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/102272

The way the skirt seems to fall in rolling folds becomes immediately apparent when you look more closely at the bias cut panels at the waist. Silver satin flows in molten early #1930s drapery by Madeleine Vionnet @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Bonnet https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/100641

Please enjoy a few stunning 18th century gowns

Pair of chopines, made in Venice, c. 1600-1620 Green silk velvet and silver-gilt bobbin lace (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

On Sat 13 June I’ll be at #craftfestival talking about Dressing the Queen & makers known & unknown including the art of gloving. These 1830s wedding gloves of leather with scalloped satin cuffs have no known maker. Also here, a pair of the Queen’s gloves by #corneliajames #RCT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Wig https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/100853

You've never heard of Chester Weinberg because of how and when he died but there's SO much more to him than that. My book is done. It won a massive NEH grant. I can't find a publisher because "nobody's ever heard of him. How about a book on Chanel instead?" #Pride www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...

Happy Pride Month! Pauline Trigère’s c1970 evening dress is a welcoming rainbow, expansive and generous in construction for every shade and combination #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡 #Pride2026

I love a transformation dress. Just the name alone is so grandiose, suggestive of bursting forth from day to night, at one moment all long sleeved and high collared and the next ready for whatever party might ensue. Mid #1860s #PalaisGalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Mourning bonnets, 1893 Bonnets grew smaller towards the end of the century. These are widow's bonnets since they have white ruches accenting the front edges. The ruche was reserved for widows and was said to soften the trying effect of black fabric next to the skin.

Thanks for following! ‘Flaming June’ by Frederic Leighton, oil on canvas, 1895. Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico.

#Ootd is this 1912 Worth evening gown. At this time, Orientalism was back in style, as the West exoticized the East. This trend is seen in the silk's pattern- vaguely Chinese and Indian inspired? They liked to combine cultures to create their own "Eastern" image. #Fashionhistory

This dress has hot languorous nights written all over it, perhaps sipping a cool drink next to an Italian lake, soaking up the early evening sun as music drifts from a nearby taverna. Mid #1920s silk chiffon and velvet, Palazzo Pitti #uffizigalleries #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attended a luncheon with President and Madame de Gaulle at the Elysee Palace in Paris #OnThisDay in 1961. She wore a natural coloured straw hat, designed by Halston, with a yellow Oleg Cassini suit. JFK Library collection. #fashionhistory

#Ootd is this 1954 Jacques Fath wedding dress. It has the typical 1950s silhouette and has a short jacket that could be worn at the ceremony and then removed for the reception. It is also a notable year for Fath as he would die in November. #Fashionhistory

Mitts https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/97425

Another ‘wish I could wiggle my nose and teleport’ moment with the news that the OG material girl is on display @academymuseum.bsky.social This Hollywood moment has undergone many iterations but here is the first and best. William Trevilla 1953 #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Handkerchief https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/100083

Looking at a collar in isolation, allows a more considered view. We can appreciate details of its hand worked satin stitch & fluted edges. Pelerine collars were commonly worn in the 1820s but here it sits in its own right, not an accessory but a handmade beauty #FashionMuseumBath #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

French fashion designer and founder of the Hervé Leger fashion house, Hervé L Leroux, was born #OnThisDay in 1957. He designed this evening dress that combines his iconic bandage technique with a flowing black bias-cut skirt for his A/W 1997 collection. Sold by Shrimpton Couture. #fashionhistory

New show unites Azzedine Alaïa and Christian Dior's haute couture