St Peters House Library, University of Brightonさんのイラストまとめ

#AnneLister was a 'mannish' lesbian. Her portraits show her in black, with a white shirt & cravat. She modelled herself on #LordByron, outrageous (#Scottish😉) poetry star & #BeauBrummell. Look at our #FashionFriday tweets in lockdown on the #Dandies for more info. #StylishSunday

#LesIncroyables were a fashion movement in revolutionary (end of) #France, c. 1795. Drawings of them were 'homoerotic'. Street gangs called #Muscadins (wore lots of musk) expressed themselves via dress. Clothes matter! Look into this period coz #JohnGalliano referenced it in 1984

Some poor guy in #Utrecht in 1700 was arrested & made homeless for wearing the dress of a shepherdess. And in 1727 the trial of the infamous 'Mother Clap's Molly House' #London began. The #MollyHouse was where (mostly) homosexual men socialised in early 18th c. #StylishSunday

#Castiglione wrote "I do not want [men] to appear...feminine as so many try to do, when they not only curl their hair and pluck their eyebrows but also preen themselves like the most wanton and dissolute creatures imaginable". Party pooper.😂 #StylishSunday

After a long closure for WWII, the ROH roared back to life with a sublime production of The Sleeping Beauty. Supplies were so scarce after the war that designer Oliver Messel made do with paper doilies for lace cuffs! Dame Margot Fonteyn danced the role of Aurora on opening night