Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbellさんのイラストまとめ

The trimmings, colors, fabrics, and skirt size and shape fluctuated with fashion and the seasons, but the basic elements stayed the same for more than a century, until the Revolution. Court dress was not supposed to make you look young, thin, or attractive; it made you look rich.

A few people have sent me this lewk and I'm going to do a 🧵, because it's something I've researched and written about extensively and because it shows how even well-intentioned, well-budgeted historical costuming can go off the rails when you don't HIRE👏FASHION👏HISTORIANS👏.

Though the illusion was very effective, models can move and pose in ways that mannequins simply can’t. As their flesh was made to look flat and inanimate, the garments--all from McQueen's archive--were brought to life, set in motion in ways that are impossible with museum pieces.

Let’s dive into the fake Georgian portraits of #Bridgerton ! Right out of the gate, we see this portrait of a young Lady Danbury, based on a 1777-78 portrait of Miss Sarah Campbell by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the @YaleBritishArt collection.

Admiring all the men in black at the @GettyMuseum Holbein show:

And the idea of having separate portraits of male and female members of one family is very on-brand for the Georgian period, as in these 1787 pendant portraits of the Wood family by Francis Wheatley from @TheHuntington:

Shoutout to all the new moms whose birth plans did not go quite as expected this year. @ColaMuseum

In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, here’s a thread on some lesser-known female fashion designers featured in my book @WornOnThisDay.