Dr Serena Dyerさんのイラストまとめ

Today, I'm finishing off something that contains a section on Ann Frankland Lewis walking her dogs. I have a lovely descriptive bit about "the shaggy hair of [the dog's] tail clearly captured mid-wag". This makes me happy.

In the introduction, I look at the importance of placing sensorial bodies back into retail spaces, and the implications this has on how we consider retail practices and experiences.

And the opportunity to just really appreciate the details was fabulous.

It is 10 years to the day that I first looked at Sabine Winn’s letters at Wakefield Archives and started the journey that would lead me to write Material Lives!

The ms for Shopping and the Senses is in! So grateful for all the hard work of my wonderful contributors to excavate these smelly, grimy, luscious, loud, sensual, and delicious histories of retail and consumption.

@costume_society But she wasn't just telling a narrative of her life; she was connecting herself to all these points of cultural capital, from the scandalous Lady Worsley and the coxheath ladies to the emergence of the fashion plate. #CSFashionHour

@costume_society However, many of the objects I look at are highly emotional and intimate. This watercolour by Ann Frankland Lewis, for example, was painted just after her husband had died, and I think it depicts her in mourning with her only surviving daughter. #CSFashionHour

@costume_society Of course, there were many women who hated their needles, and it doesn’t help that Wollstonecraft wasn’t keen on women sewing. #CSFashionHour

I’ve been promising to do it for years and it’s finally here. My myriad thoughts and opinions on fashion plates are down on paper! Just making some final tweaks and doing some polishing.

I adore the wonderful title page of the fashion plate album I acquired last year. I can’t wait to delve into writing about this wonderful piece. If you’ve come across fashion plate albums, do send them my way! 🪡🧵📚🎨