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

Worn #onthisday in 1932 by Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford at a Mayfair Club party at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, CA: "a beautiful gown of dull bronze red satin with sable wrap" and a "black velvet with a cape of white ermine and a tiny muff to match." #OTD @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1978 at Screw magazine's 10th anniversary party at Plato's Retreat, a swinger's club in New York, NY. Screw began as a weekly underground newspaper and won several court cases challenging obscenity laws, ushering pornography into the US media mainstream. #OTD @gettyimages.com

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

Worn #onthisday in 1934 by Guglielmo Marconi, president of the Academy of Italy and inventor of the radio, to welcome King Victor Emmanuel to Rome University: a Fascist Blackshirt under his robes of office. The paramilitary group was loyal to dictator Benito Mussolini. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1918 by Canadian tenor Edward Johnson (performing as "Eduardo di Giovanni") in the premiere of Montemezzi's opera "La Nave" at La Scala in Milan, Italy. The seamstress of Theatre Chiappa made it out of metallic yarn, knitted to resemble medieval chain mail. #OTD 📷 Guelph Museums

Calavera (skull) makeup and bridalwear worn #onthisday in 1989 in the Día de los Muertos procession in La Raza Park in San Francisco, CA. Costumes are typically elaborately elegant, reminders that death is a universal experience, regardless of social or marital status. #OTD @ucsblibrary.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1955 by Pat Thornson, 17, elected "Sun Goddess of the Valley of the Sun," to open the first world world symposium on applied solar energy in Phoenix, AZ. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Royal wedding costumes worn #onthisday in 2011 by the hosts of NBC's "Today" show--Kathie Lee Gifford, Hoda Kotb, Natalie Morales, Ann Curry, Meredith Vieira, Al Roker, Matt Lauer, and Sara Haines--filming at Rockefeller Plaza in New York, NY. Happy Halloween from #WOTD! #OTD @gettyimages

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

Worn #onthisday in 1929--the day of Wall Street's Great Crash--by Adele Hunter Goldwater at her #wedding to Lawrence Atkin in New York, NY. She later removed the sleeves and shoulder bow of the ivory silk panné velvet dress and coat and repurposed the ensemble as eveningwear. #OTD 📷 Museum at FIT

Worn #onthisday in 1905 by Violet Lambton as a going-away ensemble (with matching jacket) after her #wedding to Viscount Brackley in London. The Lady's Newspaper reported: "The bride travelled in a blue cloth costume trimmed with Irish lace and braid and a hat to match." #OTD 📷 V&A Museum

Worn #onthisday in 1927 by Gwendolin Manners at her #wedding to J. Derrick Hignett in London, per The Morning Post: a "picture frock of ivory chiffon" with "long, flowing sleeves, scalloped with pearls to match similar embroidery on the ankle-length skirt" and "a girdle of pearls." #OTD 📷 V&A Museum

Worn #onthisday in 1949 by Prince Charles, with his mother in a portrait taken to celebrate his upcoming first birthday. Until the 1950s, many boys wore dresses up to age 1 or 2, then short pants; Charles' grandson, Prince George, did not wear long pants in public until he was 4. #OTD 📷 NPG London

Worn #onthisday in 1963 by actress-singer Marlene Dietrich in London, before and during her performance at the El Alamein reunion concert at the Royal Albert Hall. The "glamorous grandmother," as the World News Service called her, traded her jeans and a denim jacket for a gown. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Paragon StratEx pressure suit assembly made by ILC Dover in Houston and worn #onthisday in 2014 by American computer scientist Dr. Alan Eustace to skydive to Earth from a helium balloon at the top of the stratosphere, breaking the previous world record. #OTD 📷 Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum

Worn #onthisday in 2003 by Betsey Bloomingdale, 81, to the gala opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA. The silk crepe Valentino gown in his signature Rosso Red, introduced in 1959, came from the Spring 2002 pret-a-porter collection. #OTD 📷 ASU FIDM Museum

Worn #onthisday in 1954 by Charlene Lance as Homecoming Queen of Valley College in Los Angeles, CA. Her strapless chiffon gown evoked an iconic and much-copied Edith Head design worn by Elizabeth Taylor as a debutante in the 1951 film "A Place in the Sun." #OTD 📷 LA Public Library

Worn #onthisday in 1964 by Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, at the #wedding of her son Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, the 5th Marquess, to Lindy Guinness at Westminster Abbey in London. Irish couturier John Cavanagh made the silk velvet and net coat. #OTD 📷 V&A Museum, Getty Images

Shoe #wornonthisday in 1945 by Gladys Sandford at her #wedding to Charles White. She bought the pair secondhand 2 days earlier. The CC41 symbol, also known as the Utility mark, identifies them as products produced by the British Government's World War II Utility Clothing Scheme. #OTD 📷 London Museum

Orange sash of the Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau worn #onthisday in 2012 by Princes Louis, Felix, and Sebastien of Luxembourg to the banquet celebrating the #wedding of their brother, Prince Guillaume, to Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy at the Grand Ducal Palace in Luxembourg City. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 1952 by Mexican actress María Félix at her #wedding to singer-actor Jorge Negrete in Mexico City before 1500 guests and a radio and television audience of 100,000. Armando Valdés Peza originally designed her pink linen 2-piece ensemble and shawl for a film. 📷 Fundación María Félix

Kilt of Balmoral Estate tartan--designed in 1853 by Prince Albert for the use of the royal household--worn #onthisday in 1853 by forester Donald Stewart, walking the prince's dogs on the Scottish estate in a study for Carl Haag's watercolor "Morning in the Highlands." #OTD 📷 Royal Collection Trust

Worn #onthisday in 1854 by George Washington Quigley at his #wedding to Anna Woodbridge McClelland in Clayton, OH. The black silk-satin vest with a shawl collar has a brown polished cotton twill back with an adjustable waist and a white cotton lining. #OTD 📷 Kent State University Museum

Worn #onthisday in 1913 at the #royal #wedding of Prince Arthur of Connaught and Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, at St. James's Palace, London. The bride's gown was "lovely but exceedingly simple," per The Liverpool Mercury, of white satin charmeuse with pearl and diamante embroidery. #OTD 📷 RCT

Worn #onthisday in 1971 by Princess Anne as one of 600 global dignitaries attending the Pageant of Persepolis--a lavish banquet and sound-and-light show held in the ruins of the ancient Iranian city, part of a multi-day celebration of 2,500 years of the Persian Empire, hosted by Shah Pahlavi. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 1912 by the Olympia Skating Club demonstration team at London's "palatial" Holland Park Rink. "All over the country the skating fever appears to have caught on and it seems to be a healthy form of amusement," the Leicester Chronicle reported in November 1911. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1944 by King George VI (with Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery of and Air Vice Marshal H. Broadhurst) visiting the British Liberation Army in Holland: the waist-length British Battledress blouse, the inspiration for the US Army's Eisenhower jacket. #OTD 📷 Imperial War Museums

Worn #onthisday in 1977 by Nigerian head of state Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, with President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office before sitting down for a candlelit dinner at the White House. Per UPI, Obasanjo wore "a brown Nigerian outfit embroidered with silver thread and an elaborate headdress." #OTD

Brown and royal blue brocade waistcoat worn #onthisday in 1854 by Archibald H. Spicer at his church #wedding to Harriet Preece in Auckland, New Zealand. #OTD 📷 Auckland War Memorial Museum

Bridalwear worn #onthisday in 1970 by models in Paco Rabanne's winter show in Paris. The @apnews.com recommended his sleeveless "superweskits" of "synthetic fur resembling curly lamb," knit hoods, turtlenecks, ribbed tights, and maxiboots "if you want a sporty winter wedding." #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1928 by Fred Astaire as best man to jockey Jack Leach at his #wedding to Betty Darling in London. The Telegraph described the bride's gown "of ivory moussline de soie ornamented with pearl and crystal embroideries" and "chiffon-lined train of silver lace." #OTD @gettyimages.com

Worn #onthisday in 1989 by gay activists protesting outside the Pan Pacific Hotel in Anaheim, CA, which was hosting the West Coast Symposium on Homosexuality and Public Policy. Their T-shirts read "Silence=Death" and "OUT: Orange County Visibility League." #OTD 📷 LA Public Library

Union overcoat worn #onthisday in 1862 by Private D. J. Leech, who had enlisted in the of the 124th Illinois Infantry weeks earlier. “DJ Leech Oct 6th 1862” is written inside the coat sleeve. #OTD 📷 NPS Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield

Worn #onthisday in 1922 by Princess Nagako, fiancee of Japanese Crown Prince Hirohito, to an exhibition of French art in Tokyo. "Evidently she favours Western Fashions, as she is wearing a pleated skirt, with a Kimono blouse," a British newspaper reported. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1926 at the Grand Opera's opening night performance of "Samson and Delilah" by Saint Saens at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA. In the sold-out crowd, the Evening Express spotted gowns by Chanel, Molyneux, Patou, Lanvin, Jenny and Boué Soeurs. #OTD @uclalibrary.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1928 by Eileen Carne at her #wedding to William Connell in London, per The Morning Post: an ivory velvet "mediaeval gown" with a "beautiful antique lace train ... mounted on lettuce-green chiffon." Her attendants wore lettuce-green velvet trimmed with pink silk. #OTD 📷 V&A Museum

Worn #onthisday in 1932 by British golfers Percy Alliss, Arthur Havers and Arthur Lacey for an exhibition match at London's Finchley Golf Club. All wear baggy "plus fours"--knickerbockers extending four inches below the knee--for ease of movement at a time before stretch fabrics. #OTD 📷 Getty Images

Masks worn #onthisday in 1945 by girls in Hiroshima, Japan, as protection against the odor of death and the infections spreading rapidly through the ruined city after the US nuclear bombing of August 6. 140,000 people--more than half of Hiroshima's population--died in the attack. #OTD 📷Getty Images

Worn #onthisday in 1886 by Angelina Yorba and Samuel Kraemer at their #wedding in Los Angeles, CA. The photo was taken at the F. G. Schumacher Gallery of Photographic Art at 7 Spring Street. #OTD 📷 Anaheim Public LIbrary

New York Yankees uniform worn #onthisday in 1956 by Mickey Mantle, at the close of the stellar season he would call his "favorite summer." In August 2025, @heritageauction.bsky.social sold his game-worn and signed 1960 jersey for a record price of $5,246,000. #OTD 📷 Smithsonian NPG

Matching outfits worn #onthisday in 1952 by Prince Charles, 3, and Princess Anne, 2, at Balmoral Castle near Braemar, UK. #OTD 📷 Royal Collection Trust, Daily News

Gloves, smock, and hairnet worn #onthisday in 1917 by a woman working in the engineering shop of the London General Omnibus Company during World War I, when a labor shortage drove many women into factory jobs. The company also employed more than 2,000 women as bus conductors. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Blue and gold sari worn #onthisday in 1954 by Irish nurse Sheila Durkin at her Hindu #wedding to restaurateur Shri Dharam Chand Wadhwa, who wore black and gold, in London. "More than 300 guests, most of them Hindus in colourful dress, attended," The Telegraph reported. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 2003 by French actress Clotilde Courau at her #wedding to Prince of Venice and Piedmont Emanuele Filiberto at the Basilica Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome, Italy: a custom Valentino gown with a 12-foot-long lace veil anchored by the Savoy Pink Tourmaline Tiara. #OTD

Girl Guide uniforms worn #onthisday in 1936 by an honor guard at the church #wedding of their captain, Mary Katherine Macleod, to Raleigh Skelton, a British Museum official, in London. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social

Sisters of Mercy habit worn #onthisday in 1952 by Sister Superior Mary Xavier Halloran before the dedication of the new St. John's Hospital in Springfield, MO, whose construction she oversaw. She "is as shrewd as any man I ever dealt with," one contractor commented. #OTD 📷 Missouri Digital Heritage

Worn #onthisday in 1976 by First Lady Betty Ford to a reception hosted by Liberian President William Tolbert and his wife Victoria at Anderson House in Washington, D.C. The multicolored Albert Capraro gown has a geometric print streaked with metallic gold. #OTD 📷 Ford LIbrary, Library of Congress

Worn #onthisday in 1938 by British Conservative politician Anthony Eden in London. In 1936, Apparel Arts praised his "excellent taste" and singled out "the black Homburg hat which he has done so much to popularize." He also favored these Paddock cut jackets with two high buttons. #OTD 📷 Getty Images

Worn #onthisday in 1996 by Carolyn Bessette at the rehearsal dinner before her top-secret #wedding to John F. Kennedy, Jr., at the The Greyfield Inn on Cumberland Island, GA: a cream beaded chiffon gown by her wedding dress designer, Narciso Rodriguez. #OTD