Chestnut coloured velvet with cushion like sleeves designed by the fashion house of Worth for your autumnal wardrobe. Mid #1890s, so expansive in proportions and embellishment, all tied up with a big silk bow @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Annie Parker #stitch ed this sampler (now on show in our #CM150 exhibition) using her own hair as thread and gave it to the Rev John Horsley, chaplain to Clerkenwell Prison. In 1884 he gave it to our collection - Parker herself died the following year of TB aged only 35. #Museum30 #womensart

"The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." 🥹

American actress and singer Dorothy Lamour was born #OnThisDay in 1914. She wore this Edith Head designed black satin, long-sleeved v-neck dress as the nightclub singer the Countess in the 1942 film, The Fleet's In. Sold by Bonhams. #film #costume #dress

A delectable description, this late #1950s Balenciaga is a ginger coloured shantung silk with silver embroidery and sequins. It has an asymmetric hem that sweeps behind the wearer #museobalenciaga #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A lovely piece from our collection for today’s #Museum30 theme of Stitch – a ‘Friendship Cloth’, owned and used by the donor’s grandmother, Sylvia Ashbridge of Grove Park, Wanstead, who had friends visiting for tea sign and embroider (or embroidered herself) their names from around the year 1870. 🪡

#Museum30 This ca. 1806 needlework picture imagines Palemon and Lavinia, the rural lovers of a 1720s poem by James Johnson based on the story of Ruth, as contemporaries of the artist, Sophia Burpee (1788-1814). 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/496/...

How to make a statement as a new bride. This is a going away outfit by Madame Hayward, worn in 1899. There would be no fear of missing the newlyweds as they departed after the nuptials in this strikingly coloured and embellished ensemble #KelvingroveArt @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Worn #onthisday in 1908 by Anna Lieftinck at her #wedding to Jonkheer Teding van Berkhout in Groningen, Holland. The gown was originally worn with a wide, ruffled lace flounce covering the upper part of the bodice and a lace veil Anna borrowed from the groom’s sister. #OTD @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

#Ootd isn't an outfit, but accessories Paul Poiret produced from designs by his Atelier Martine. All have bright, whimsical, floral patterns- a 1912 bamboo umbrella, a 1911 silk and wool cap, and a pair of 1924 "the Roses" shoes of embroidered velvet and silk chenille. #fashionhistory #paulpoiret

I can’t quite work out the techniques deployed here in Marc Bohan’s early 1970s cocktail dress designed for Dior. Is it crochet or a particular kind of loose weave or macrame? I like it though and am trying to imagine it on a body! @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Handkerchief https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/95901

The rest of the second display on Paul Poiret's family life has these four other objects: 1. A 1919 "Tout de suite" gown of velvet silk. 2. A 1914 wig worn by Poiret himself! 3. Another dress by Nicole Grout, Poiret's sister, this one from 1921. 4. A 1910 woodblock print

What better for a rainy Friday (here at least!) than a spectacular gown from the generally spectacular wardrobe of Queen Maud of Norway. Dating to c1908 it incorporates an outer shell of sparkle over softer layers #nasjonalmuseet #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Cap https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/98557

Paul Poiret extended his brand beyond clothing, including perfume and interior design. This is common today, but he was one of the first to do so. His interior design house, Atelier Martine, was named after his daughter. He also created the Martine School of Decorative Arts, where 12-year-old girls

I am one of those strange creatures who loves a sickly soft centre when it comes to a tray of chocolates. This mid #1940s Charles James ballgown has always reminded me of a strawberry creme, or is that just me? @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Paul Poiret was not the only fashion designer in his family. His sister Nicole Groult also became a fashion designer in the 1900s to the 1930s. Like her brother, she also participated in abolishing the corset in her designs. Here we have a 1912 afternoon gown, produced at the

If you missed our seminar on Georgian Women yesterday it will shortly be available to watch via our website

Just imagine the shivering of the silk fringe as this particular spectacular green gown moved through the world, the wearer feeling more fabulous with every shake of the hip. A combination of fine emerald chiffon and extravagant embellishment, late #1920s #goldsteinmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

British actress Vivien Leigh was born #OnThisDay in 1913. She wore this now iconic Walter Plunkett designed red silk velvet gown, embellished with glass beads and ostrich feathers, as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). Ransom Center collection. #film #costume #dress

I the vivid memories of wearing a similar knitted cape affair as a child in the seventies. Mine was orange and brown but this, a century older, is a complex knit in vibrant purple with white bobbles. The 1870s does 1970s? @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

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

My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee! www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...

Worn #onthisday in 1979 by Adda Thompson (with a white hat) at her church #wedding to Augustus Clements in Winona, MN. Saint Paul dressmaker Mary Worley made the plum velvet and satin gown and matching dolman trimmed with fur and a chenille fringe. #OTD 📷 Minnesota Historical Society

I forgot to post the rest of the display that accompanied information on Paul Poiret's family. We have this 1922 ensemble for Poiret's son, Colin, a 1920 evening coat, named Ice-Cream soda, and a pair of shoes by Favereau, a shoemaker for Poiret. There was a 1910 tapestry by Raoul Dufy,

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 🗃️🪡

4th How to Marry a Millionaire premiered in Los Angeles #OnThisDay in 1953. Marilyn Monroe wore a Travilla designed purple satin evening gown with sequin belt and asymmetric shoulder strap as Pola Debevoise in the film. Travilla made this prototype before filming began #film #costume

Accessory set https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/96890

Nothing added to this golden gown, it needed no beads or sequins, no embroidery or ruffles or pleats. It is simply a column of bias cut cloth gleaming from high neck to toe, mid #1930s #KSUMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Another Poiret Renaissance fancy dress costume is this one, also from @metmuseum.org. Sadly, it is lacking its undergarments to present it to its full effect. #fashionhistory #ootd #paulpoiret

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Carved jet floral mourning brooch, c. 1900 Nordiska Museet digitaltmuseum.se/011023809373...

One final marvellous garment from the Rijksmuseum, a longtime favourite in the shape of a mid #1820s dark green riding habit trimmed will gold braid. Home after our whirlwind of a weekend in Amsterdam @rijksmuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

From the Archive: Lacemakers and Handicraft: 1750-1775 – a Case Study of Traditions and Commerce (1800 words). www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/la...

My series ‘Intimate Histories’ about how history is not some abstract thing that happened to someone else, but personal to all of us is now available on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

The name of this 1948 Dior gown is flamant rose which sounds much more romantic than its English translation which is flamingo pink. All of the fullness at the back, layered over a bustle style tournure pad adds energy to the movement of the skirt, in darker shades #MoMuAntwerp #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Dolman https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/102479

Although this ensemble was a commercial failure, Claire McCardell had a vision of the capsule wardrobe that would be revived decades later by designers like Donna Karan and her 7 Easy Pieces. This is mid #1930s, a travel ensemble to work anywhere you might land @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Marie Antoinette was born #OnThisDay in 1755. These delicate c. 1780 beaded pink silk slippers are believed to have belonged to the ill-fated Queen of France. The shoes are from the Musee Carnavalet collection and are currently on display at the V&A. #fashionhistory #marieantoinette

Another treasure from the Rijksmuseum, late #1930s black georgette printed with floral splashes arranged in strips. When gathered they resemble a kaleidoscope of colour against the black @rijksmuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

This #Halloween, Madeleine Vionnet is offering all of the witchy stitches with her 1927 Araignée gown, a pale and ethereal design dripping with a beaded cobweb #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

My daughter, who runs Sewn Company, is a hand-sewing instructor and historic sewing/clothing consultant. She tells the story of my haunted vintage clothing store as she sews in this video. youtu.be/fZoFAM8u-d0?... #ghoststories #Halloween #vintageclothing #hauntings

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

Treats incoming this weekend, I am in Amsterdam and heading to the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social to enjoy their menswear exhibition. Here though, one of their c18th gems, a rare printed #1770s gown, the surface crimped and ruffled so it resembles a dress made of paper #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Today's #ootd is this 1920 Paul Poiret afternoon dress. It is both distinctly 1920s, with the geometric motifs and folded neckline and sleeves, but it also looks very modern, like it could be worn today. Absolutely stunning. I love the side buttons.

A plain weave with a warp float, the functional description of a fabric that exudes autumnal plums and bronzes with a rich blue backdrop. Elaborate cloth for mid #1880s daywear, #LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Worn #onthisday in 2003 by Idina Menzel as Elphaba on the opening night of the Broadway musical "Wicked" at the Gershwin Theatre in New York, NY. Susan Hilferty designed the Tony-winning costumes; the hat brim is curved upward on one side to make the wearer's face visible on stage. #OTD 📷 V&A Museum

“The [factories] started telling us to go home for festival holidays and come back once things in America got better,” said Raju B. Chikkanarasaiya, the general secretary at Karnataka State Garment and Textile Workers Union. www.businessoffashion.com/articles/sus...

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

Is it even worth having a ballgown if it doesn’t come with matching berry red choker necklace and wristwear? Mainbocher loved red and deployed it to excellent effect here in his 1947 gown @chicagomuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡