Evening dress, Lanvin, 1938 I actually don't know how to do this dress justice. I LOVE it, like all her designs. Interesting detail: the fabric isn't woven in horizontal bands. Its actually black velvet and white silk satin ribbon sewn onto the dress body! #dresshistory #fashionhistory #ootd

Evening dress, Vionnet, 1929 Wouldn't this have looked beautiful in motion? There's so much to love - the 7-layered, zig-zag skirt, the circular appliqué on the top, the overall lightness of the look. Such a beautiful thing. From Kyoto Costume Institute. #dresshistory #fashionhistory #ootd

Morning all! I want to generate a word cloud for use in teaching about the history of corsetry.

If you'd like to help me, please reply to this comment with five words that come to mind that you associate with corsets. Thanks!

You don't need to know anything about corsetry to answer. And, because this is about associations, there are no wrong answers :)

Renaissance revival dress, Gustave Beer, 1895, Vienna. I don't really know what makes it a Renaissance revival style. But I do know that the thick bouclé cloth is absolutely gorgeous - I really love it. From the Kyoto Costume Institute. #fashionhistory #dresshistory #ootd

Woman's jumpsuit, in a hostess pants style. Rayon plain weave. Addie Masters, California, 1940. Held at LACMA. This is a real 'wow' piece for me. The cut of the trousers, the colour combination, the verticality. Its a really joyous garment. Love it #fashionhistory #dresshistory #fashion

Wool and cashmere suit, Norman Norrell, 1964. Currently at the LA County Museum of Art. I love the way the skirt falls on this one. #fashionhistory #dresshistory

I love that the Tudor Tailor have shared this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scl1SOvgYN0

Dr Susan North examining a C16th dress fragment from the Missing Persons conference in 2022 (the now-famous farthingale sleeve), and gives a brief talk beforehand touching on the clothing life cycle and how pre-industrial historical textiles have survived.

The 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed Network, together with ACORSO Research Interest Group "Tailoring for Women 1750-1930", is hosting another "At Home" online event on Sunday, September 29!

"Focused on the holdings of Teaching Collections of dress, curators and archivists from featured institutions will share treasures of tailored clothing for women produced and worn during the long nineteenth century."

Programme:
Astrida Schaeffer - The Irma G. Bowen Historical Clothing Collection, University of New Hampshire
Sarah Hume - Gallery of Costume, Kent State University Museum
Lou Taylor - Dress History Teaching Collection, University of Brighton, Tailored Clothes for Women from Bradleys Department Store, London 1926-29

Read more and get your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/acorso-tailoring-x-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-29th-sep-4pm-bst-tickets-715162810217

#DressHistory #FashionHistory #TextileHistory #Museums #MaterialCulture #19thCentury #1920s #Fashion #History @historians.social @historikerinnen

A new Making Historical Dress Network seminar has just been announced:

https://acu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0uceutqT8rHNNTCZLBlyZ0sfbxO-ReVraD

Sadly, I don't think I can go to this one, on account of that week at work being blocked out to assess tenders. But they'll be recording it

Milestone day on Patterns of Perfection website. 250 Georgian needlework patterns (majority from the Lady’s Magazine) now digitised and catalogued. Some metadata cleaning up to do but couldn’t resist sharing. Latest upload is thanks to generous donation from Melissa Roberts and my daughter/My article on my research on the patterns will be published on open access in Textile History soon. Enjoy! And let me know your favourites https://ladysmagazine.omeka.net #georgian #needlework #dresshistory

Save the date! The next 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed "At Home" online talks will be on Sunday, June 30, "focused on photography and its connections to 19th century fashion".

Programme:
Robyne Calvert: Artists & Photographic Fantasies
Erika Lederman: 'Counterfeit Specimens'. Isabel Agnes Cowper's Needlework Photographs for the South Kensington Museum
Beatrice Behlen: Mrs Broom's photographs of suffragettes

Follow the link for abstracts and registration (free): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-30-june-2024-200pm-bst-tickets-715162429077

#DressHistory #FashionHistory #TextileHistory #19thCentury #Museum #MaterialCulture #Photography #Needlework #Suffragettes #Histodons @histodons @historikerinnen

Finally, on Sunday April 28, there'll be another "At Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed" event!

Programme:
Linda McShannock - A Living for the Earnest, A Fortune for the Capable: Dressmaking in Minneapolis, 1880-1920
Cecilia Soares - A transatlantic wardrobe: an analysis of the Belle Époque sartorial goods from the Ivy House Museum, in Vassouras, Brazil (1870-1910)
Alden O'Brien - TBD

Read more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-28-april-2024-300pm-bst-tickets-715162378927?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios

#DressHistory #FashionHistory #MaterialCulture #Museums #Dressmaking #19thCentury #BelleEpoque #Brazil #Histodons @histodons @historikerinnen

Had some really lovely feedback today from an article I wrote for Embroidery Canada (published a few weeks back) about domestic embroidery in the eighteenth century and the patterns in the Lady’s Magazine. Still have to pinch myself that I get to work in this area and connect with so many talented makers. #needlework #embroidery #dresshistory #womenshistory #georgian

How gorgeous is this? Love this recreation by Katherine Garrett Kirk of one of my favourite patterns from the Lady’s Magazine. This one is from 1775. It is for a work bag and you can see it and 200 others on my website Patterns of Perfection. #embroidery #georgian #needlework #ladysmag #dresshistory

I just wanted to paint these sweet fellows in some hot 12th century looks, as you do, so I did. I’d like to submit this as evidence that we should bring the bliaut back into fashion, yes?

I did these little fashion plates a few months ago, but there wasn’t a good time to post them together because wowee this lil painter got real busy. So here’s me remembering to share these two wearing a pair of fetching 18th century riding habits - such a good aesthetic, am I right?

Christmas decs #ladysmagazine style. Hoping to make 10 of these for friends and family. A commuter-friendly sewing project adapted from the crown design of a bonnet pattern in the 1812 Lady’s Magazine. #dresshistory #georgian #regency #sewing #embroidery #needlework #eighteenth century #nineteenthcentury #womenshistory

Couldn't attend the Making Historical Dress Network's workshops in September? Never fear, you can now watch the recordings online!

Workshop One - Replicas, Reconstructions, and Recreations: Defining Terms of Historical Remaking
https://makinghistoricaldress.dmu.ac.uk/Workshop-One.html

Workshop Two - Translating Making Knowledge: Communicating Embodied Experience
https://makinghistoricaldress.dmu.ac.uk/Workshop-Two.html

#DressHistory #FashionHistory #MaterialCulture #HistoricalSewing #ExperimentalHistory #EmbodiedTurn #Histodons @histodons @historikerinnen

Save the date for a special "19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed" online event on Sunday November 26, this time in collaboration with ACORSO Research Interest Group "Tailoring for Women 1750 - 1930"!

"Focused on the holdings of Teaching Collections of dress housed across the United States, curators and archivists from featured institutions will share treasures of tailored clothing for women produced and worn during the long nineteenth century."

Programme:
Fashion Archives and Museum of Shippensburg University
Drexel University Robert and Penny Fox Historical Costume Collection
Ohio State University Historic Costume and Textiles Collection
Goldstein Museum of Design (GMD) College of Design University of Minnesota

Read more and register for free: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/acorso-tailoring-x-c19th-dress-and-textiles-reframed-26-nov-1500-gmt-tickets-715161947637?aff=oddtdtcreator

#DressHistory #TextileHistory #MaterialCulture #Museums #Archives #FashionHistory #19thCentury #Histodons @histodons @historikerinnen

Day 30 of Stream Ink is Pattern!
Printed textiles have been around for a VERY long time, and they had an Absolute Moment in 18th century Europe and North America, with all manner of lovely printed cottons, from complex multi-coloured florals if you could afford them, to simpler, single-colour patterns. This little rat lady has selected a charming calico with which to make a nice new jacket in her mantua-maker’s workshop.