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Monday Pic
Starting our week with this gorgeous photo of two children, beautifully dressed😍love the little rocking horse, prop from studio.
Photographer from my home town
A gift from lovely friend, aren’t I lucky!

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2020-01-13

A nostalgic 19thc painting, but I bet that sack-back gown/robe à la française dated back to the 18thc, relegated to the artist's costume collection. Ingenious placement of stripes into pleats. "Au Revoir" by Pancraz Körle, c1865

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2020-01-11

What Marie Antoinette Wore in the Eighteenth Century: In the eighteenth century everyone talked about what wore and she came to be perceived by the French public as a ... https://t.co/EnwKvRa9Gw

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2020-01-11

Friday Pic
Wonderful group photo of lovely ladies all dressed in warm coats & plus one little girl👧
Bet she had a great day😊
All look good friends, work together? works outing🤔
No printing or writing & photo on grey card.

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2020-01-10

Today's for is this another evening dress from the 19-teens that looks like a nicely wrapped gift. Complete with a black ribbon and silver bow! <3

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2019-12-27

and for all those who celebrate and just a happy night to all those who don't. Today's is a very special one. It is a 1895 Worth silk brocade dress with silver braiding and sequins. Truly heavenly!

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2019-12-26

Today's is a wonderful sweet cranberry colored 1795 round gown. It is patterned with little blue and yellow floral designs that keeps the outfit fresh and modern

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2019-12-22

This week's is a 1780 robe a la polonaise, which is a dress that is pulled up into three sections in the back. That and the gorgeous braided trimming remind me of curtains. Perhaps if Scarlett O'Hara was born 80 years older ;)

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2019-12-21

Today's is 1920s dress by Nadezhda Petrovna Lamanova. She was on (if not the) only designers to have made outfits for the Russian Imperial court and during the Soviet Union. She was jailed once but let go on the request of Maxim Gorky!

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2019-12-20

This week's is this 1798-1800 French elaborately embroidered evening dress. It is a round gown that was made to look like an open robe from the pervious fashionable trend. It is sleeveless and so would have been worn with an underdress.

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2019-12-13

This week's is Marjorie's 1948-52 evening dress. It was designed by Eleonora Garnett, who lived a fascinating life! She was born in Estonia, moved to Moscow as a young girl and escaped to Shanghai during the Russian revolution.

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2019-12-10

I'm off to my second Christmas party and I'm in love with this 1949-50 Charles James ballgown from the . The red silk draped skirt references the historical silhouette of the 1870s. Do you think it's too much for a village hall?

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2019-12-07

Today's is this 1889-1892 dress that was worn by Cara or Anne Rogers, daughters of a wealthy American industrialist. Cara became Lady Fairhaven when she married into British aristocracy. She then bought lovely dresses like this for herself & her sister.

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2019-12-05

Installation view of "Costumes 1750-1850," an exhibition of European clothing presented at in 1932 https://t.co/reVJBtNpkP

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2019-12-04

Stylish gentleman: Esp. like the six-pointed stars repeated on the buttons of both waistcoat & coat - plus extra love for that carnelian pinkie ring. "Portrait of an English Architect" unsigned, 18thc English School

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2019-12-01

Today's is a sweet 1916 Lucile silk dress. Katherine Keith wore this to her wedding to David Adler. It echos the fashions of the 1770s.

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2019-11-09

Today’s lovely to get you through is this 1890 Herbert Luey dress. All the lace and pleats!

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2019-11-06

New blog post: Eliza Hamilton's Caps: One she wore, one she made - the sweetest tiny whitework baby cap. From the https://t.co/quRlaDZv2U

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2019-11-06

Today's is a 1798-1800 evening dress. wrote that this is a transition dress that shows the trend towards empire waist, but using silk and embroidery popular in the 18th century.

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2019-11-06