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Take care in the heatwave. Wish I could head to the coast! This c1811 walking dress features in a fashion plate from Ackermann’s Repository of Arts. Full description here @V_and_A collections:
https://t.co/mJp9qFP6yv #heatwave #fashionhistory
Inspired by ballerinas painted by Degas, Madame Grès 1982 silk dinner dress. Via The Met:
https://t.co/9z2ur0Y9tW #fashionhistory
‘Woman at the window’ by Josef Israels (1824-1911). Oil on canvas, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
'The Fair Toxophilites' by William Frith, oil on canvas 1872 @RAMMuseum collections. Archery ensemble c1855 @MuseumofLondon #fashionhistory
Carriage dress of silk velvet & taffeta, 1885 @aeartcentre collections #dress #fashionhistory
Green velvet dress worn by Lena Horne in the film ‘Stormy Weather’(1943). Designed by Helen Rose, American. Collection of the @smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture #fashionhistory
Robe à la française, France c1770 @LACMA collections. Cotton & linen plain weave, block-printed & dye-painted, with silk passementerie #fashionhistory
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‘La Parisienne’ oil painting of 1874 by Auguste Renoir; his model was actress-to-be Henriette Henriot (1857-1944) then aged 16. Silk taffeta/velvet walking dress @KSUMuseum, Charles Worth silk afternoon dress @metmuseum, day dress of ribbed silk @V_and_A #fashionhistory