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University of Glasgow Dress&Textile Histories 2021-22. Horse girl historian (gender neutral). they/them.

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sometimes you think you’re normal about history and then the next you’re crying over the Anne Sykes Dress Diary book

15.06.2025 16:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🪡 Netherlands.

Chintz cotton jacket, 1810-20 and/or 1750.

Only one image was available for this wonderful chintz jacket

© Rijksmuseum
#FashionHistory 🗃️

26.01.2025 07:34 — 👍 98    🔁 13    💬 4    📌 2

the twelve days of christmas is completely unrealistic there is no way that you’re still accepting gifts from someone after four days of birds

30.11.2024 19:22 — 👍 1000    🔁 221    💬 43    📌 20

These four buttons from the 1780s represent fashionable regional dress - the similarly posed women in pink and green are French, while the woman in red is Turkish and the woman in green and red is Dutch. 🗃️🪡

29.11.2024 20:19 — 👍 103    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 1
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All of a swirl, sapphire blue velvet spins from the neck down, incorporating starbursts of ombré embroidery for celestial effect. It is a #1930s evening coat to fasten over a much skimpier and chillier evening dress. Sold via Augusta Auctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

25.11.2024 18:56 — 👍 67    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
1920s shoes from Philadelphia.

1920s shoes from Philadelphia.

1920s shoes, Steigerwalt Boot Shop, Philadelphia. Via Philadelphia Museum of Art here: philamuseum.org/collection/o...

25.11.2024 20:22 — 👍 89    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 0
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A sensational cashmere Byzantine riding coat, radiocarbon dated to 450-550AD from Sheikh Ibada, Egypt, with some helpful instructions about how to wear it! #silkroads

24.11.2024 15:41 — 👍 19    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
Dreamy, muted watercolor painting of brown tabby and white cat, in perfect loaf position and looking off to the right. The cat and the whole painting in general have a quiet, sweet, slightly melancholy feel.

Dreamy, muted watercolor painting of brown tabby and white cat, in perfect loaf position and looking off to the right. The cat and the whole painting in general have a quiet, sweet, slightly melancholy feel.

Cat. Ca. 1904 - 1908. www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...

23.11.2024 23:51 — 👍 5685    🔁 513    💬 31    📌 4
Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 1979

Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 1979

Riding habit https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/107074

05.09.2024 08:12 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Wool riding habit (jacket, trousers, overskirt, top hat & whip), English, c1900. Full description & more images here via The V&A: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O84127/...

14.03.2024 13:22 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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