Daniel Milco

Yes, if you click on the ... you get the option to mute specific words and hashtags. Hashtags are even easier, you can click on them/hold your finger down and get the option to mute/block that hashtag. I use it for TV shows I don't have any interest in and other things I don't want to see

That's so similar to the portrait it's almost uncanny. Thanks for sharing!

Oh what a splendid feline!

False modesty?

Actually, it's not dissimilar to the sentiment behind the expression "humbug!" is it?

Maybe humblebrag is an Americanism based upon misunderstanding or misremembering the term "humbug!" or trying to expand it into a less obviously rude term.

I feel like that's very much an insult/attack on morals or character rather than calling them a humblebragger. I just imagine judgemental people staring at someone else they don't like and saying it as a way to cut them down to size/call them something horrible without using an actual swear word.

1590s cloth doll, dressed as a fashionable court lady with embroidered face, blonde hair pulled back into a pearl-decorated style, and a silk dress and large hand muff trimmed with metal lace. Collection of the Royal Armoury, Stockholm

Fascinating! Dolls are one of my particular interests and I wasn't aware of these, I'll read your piece in more detail but on a quick scan I liked that you include Turriano's lutist. I'm sure you know of the 1590s rag doll held by the Swedish Royal Armoury? Maybe Mary's dolls were similar.

Awwwwww. Reunited again, one hopes.

Yes please!

A book titled Hand-Coloured Fashion Plates 1770-1899 by Vyvyan Holland, lying on top of a selection of 1860s fashion prints which are only partially seen around the outside of the book. Photo taken by Daniel Milford-Cottam, 2021

Hand-Coloured Fashion Plates 1770-1899 by Vyvyan Holland (Oscar Wilde's son). I don't know if this link will work, but here's a post about the book I can't wait to transfer to Flashes when that goes live.

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Apologies, I get a bit carried away when I see contemporary fashion depicted so vividly in a painting and this shows a *lot* of the compositional tricks of the fashion plate trade. I can imagine Edouard and his sister discussing this work while it was in progress - her influence seems very visible.

The composition of the figures seems heavily influenced by his sister's and aunt's commercial fashion plate work. Victorian fashion plates were based upon finished paintings, some of which amazingly still survive (mostly by Jules David), but they're usually watercolours rather than oils.

A fun fashion plate conceit here: if you look at the women in the background immediately behind the two bigger figures, they're wearing the exact same hats, posed to show the back view so that the viewer knows how to replicate them. Maybe that's his sister Isabelle's influence.

The New Extra Enlarged Fashion Plates of 15 Figures Comprising 12 Ladies and 3 Childrens Dresses of the Latest Paris Fashions | Léon Sault | V&A Explore The Collections Leon Sault. 'Young Ladies Journal Monthly Panorama of Fashion' dated September 1875. Ladies and childrens' day dresses.

It could well be a design for a panoramic fashion plate such as this - these panoramic plates are huge! collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O580321...

Vyvyan Holland showed a 1876 Isabelle Toudouze plate in his excellent Fashion Plates book showing two equally furbelowed, extravagantly attired women adrift at sea in a tiny rowboat. Frustratingly I can't find the plate online, but it's such a similar vibe to this painting by Isabelle'a brother.

And of course, Edouard Toudouze's Isabelle Toudouze's brother and Héloïse Leloir's nephew, both renowned fashion plate artists. Isabelle signed some plates showing similarly extraordinary scenes of active, beautifully but inappropriately dressed women which this reminded me of.

What an extraordinary painting! Those are very unsuitable dresses for sandy beaches which makes me wonder if this is a design for a fashion plate as it's difficult to imagine long flower-bedecked frilled trains being worn on a beach, let alone having your knitting yarn lying on the sand.

To be honest, most of my published opening sentences aren't that punchy, I seem to tend towards a quite simple, factual statement, and then build from there. From Edwardian Fashion:

"The twentieth century had barely begun when Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901."

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book:

"The Sixties were over."
- Fashion in the 1970s

Tried Mastodon twice, and just couldn't vibe with it. It felt like too much effort/too complicated just to get started and it felt like those initiated into how it worked were looking judgementally down their noses at you rather than willing to get you integrated. Not welcoming at all.

I need to get my head round that because I do that with a performers group list put together by someone, but I can't see how to follow the list without going to their profile and then to their lists. It wd be so good to follow a list like it was a feed, maybe that's possible but not worked out how.

I just hope @support.bsky.team provides a "Mute Retweets" option soon too, because some people I love, but they really retweet every single thing they see and I've had to mute their entire accounts despite enjoying the 5% of content that's their own.

Also the mute specific tags/words option, especially great for when people talk about TV shows* you're genuinely not interested in, so you can mute those specific posts while seeing their other opinions.

*"TV shows" also refers to many other things, including bad for mental health things.

I hadn't seen this before! So unusual for Givenchy, but when you know that #ElsaSchiaparelli was one of his first employers back in the late 40s, it suddenly makes a lot more sense.

You can definitely tell from this fabulous (and unexpected) piece that one of his first employers was Schiaparelli. It feels just like a nod towards her. I love this!

What happens when your suspect French hood gets snagged on your ye olde authentic Tudor zipper as you go to strike a striking profile pose.

I'd appeal the #Bluesky moderation decision. This is clearly a painting/work of art, which was regularly featured on pre-watershed family television in the 1980s without censorship, so it shouldn't be labelled Adult Content.

@moderation.bsky.app

The artist of the first two was Louis-Rémy Sabattier (1863-1935) who was apparently known for his work for L'Illustration for 40+ years. I was so surprised to find the second fabulous illustration on the back of the first one after I took it out of its mount to see if the back had a date on it.

You might be interested to see the illustrations I just posted in a separate comment then, some do have the veil over a hat but it's quite a variety of styles.