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"Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." John Ruskin
#SerenitySunday Fireboard, 1790 "Comtemplation by the Shore, 1790, American. Via @peabodyessex
Good night- sweet dreams & bright tomorrows ✨✨
Detail, Chariot of #Venus, #Boucher, @gardnermuseum
#COVID19 #beautybreak with plenty of #Victorian #socialdistancing tips, brought to you by the House of #Worth @metmuseum #victoriangorgeous #HouseofWorth #hautecouture #gowns #awestruck #gobsmacked #worth For more: https://t.co/F0poONzPfV
#Worthgowns 1870s-1890s
Since it is pretty much all we are discussing at present, how about a #COVID19 #beautybreak? I hope this finds you safe & healthy wherever you may be 💕
Evening dress, England, c1820; Cotton plain weave w/metallic thread embroidery & silk ribbons w/metallic passementerie @LACMA
Please join me, @ms_theotyson & @sarageorgini for #CuratorsChoice conversation 6 March "Sartorial Suffrage" @bostonathenaeum Details here: https://t.co/LODCG748hG @JHUPress @MHS1791 @UNHCOLA
Course & syllabus prep, deadlines & lectures-- oh my! Taking a week or so away from social media. Take care out there in the #twitterverse
Image: In 1898 promotional postcard shot for Wyckoff, Seamans and Benedict. More: https://t.co/1mjI3IkTJ4
#SackBackSaturday #historianonholiday @HistDeerfield
Sumptuous #sackback robe of woven #silk w/ #passementerie, self fabric #robings; textile poss. from #Amsterdam, made in #England, 1735-40 altered c1780. Now on view #FlyntCenter Curated by #NedLazaro #gorgeousgeorgians
#SackBackSaturday This #detail from a #French Robe à la Française, c. 1770 reminds me of the striped #ribboncandy my granny always put out in a #depressionera glass dish at the holidays. None of the kids would touch it but it was pretty! Via @metmuseum
An elegant, fashionable #embroidered evening dress, c. 1790s, from the collection of the @DARMuseum on view during the recent exhibit "An Agreeable Tyrant" curated by #AldenTullisO'Brien Read on:
https://t.co/gLlyVSnFjh
Good morning! A #dreamy, #super #romantic #BouéSoeurs, detail, Court Presentation Ensemble, 1928. Via @metmuseum Hand–sewn ivory silk tulle, machine–embroidery; insets of silver–blue silk & metal lamé, hand–appliquéd & hand–embroidered white silk tulle w/flowers in silk ribbon