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👏.

A couple of new-to-me portraits: this one—from 1815 by Bouchet, signed and dated on the column—has nice details of a cashmere shawl, a gown made from a cashmere shawl, and a sewing box.

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.