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2/2: passion for getting to reject accepted standards of dress & her political activism brought her to attention of in witchunt of 1950s. Fascinating woman.

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2021-06-14

The & both & led to what psychologist termed the 'Great Masculine Renunciation' whereby men gave up their colours & dressed more soberly.

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2021-06-14

1920s/30s scarves (clean lines, blocks of colour) are typified in the paintings of Film stars like wore them on head as turbans.

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2021-05-23

(owner of ), did not approve of pix & neither did the south of Advertisers pulled ads, readers stopped their subs & wasn't allowed to photograph again.😱😢#StylishSunday

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2021-04-26

history lesson: British servicemen abroad cut the bottom half of their uniforms off to cope with the heat in Then tailors picked up on it which somehow became these in the 1950s & 60s.

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2021-04-12

The British Medical Journal wrote that the term 'killing' (Victorian slang for a gorj woman) was apt coz any woman wearing these dresses to a ball "carries in her skirts poison enough to slay the whole of the admirers she may meet within half a dozen ballrooms”.

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2020-12-07

Women also died by fire when their clothes were set alight. & (light heavily starched cotton) were very flammable (then) and the created a funnel effect if it caught fire, a common occurrence. Over 3,000 women died in 1860 alone.😱😢

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2020-12-07

Our penultimate (2nd last to u lot😂) tweet for is to pose this question: where *are* all the lesbians in fashion? Indeed, where are all the lesbians in the history narrative? A cynic might say 'they've been written out of it". Do u agree? Let us know.

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2020-10-19

in 'The Well Of Loneliness' gives us a blueprint for lesbian 'mannishness'. The main character uses clothing to express her lesbian identity & Hall writes beautiful descriptions on the main character's folded shirts, cuff links & bespoke male suits.

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2020-10-18

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

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2020-10-18

Some poor guy in 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' began. The was where (mostly) homosexual men socialised in early 18th c.

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2020-10-11

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.😂

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2020-10-05