Dress and design historian | Curator. Views my own.
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The Life of Eva Perón: First Lady, Activist, Actress and Philanthropist is out now.
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American painter and retired musician Grace Slick was born #OnThisDay in 1939. She wore this white and black embroidered kaftan to perform with Jefferson Airplane at the historic Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. Sold by @recordmecca. #fashionhistory
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A spooky encounter at Hampton Court Palace...👻 Assistant Curator Minette Butler takes us through the very corridors where this mysterious ghost story is said to have happened 🫣
📖 Discovered by Historic Buildings Curator Karey Draper during research 👉 bit.ly/hampton-court-ghosts
English stage and screen actress Juliet Stevenson was born #OnThisDay in 1956. She wore this Maria Bjornson designed black and gold ensemble with military-inspired braid and frogging as Hippolyta in the 1981 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. @TheRSC collection. #theatre
This week's #ThirtiesThursday garment is fit for royalty! This embroidered gold W. W. Reville-Terry Ltd. gown, made from a composite weave of silk and metal thread, was worn by Queen Maud of Norway.
@nasjonalmuseet collection. #fashionhistory
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A little bit of watered rayon velvet, a petunia coloured double breasted coat that screeches sixties chic. It was sold by Apple Boutique, a short lived enterprise of The Beatles @museumatFIT #FashionHistory
ALT A three quarter view of a bright purple rayon velvet coat double breasted with two rows of mother of pearl buttons. It has a flared hem, and a high collar
American comedienne and actress Fanny Brice was born #OnThisDay in 1891. Barbra Streisand wore this Ray Aghayan and Bob Mackie designed mauve dress with an empire waistline and a deep V neckline to portray Brice in the film Funny Lady (1975). Sold @JuliensAuctions. #film #costume
Award-winning costume designer Edith Head was born #OnThisDay in 1897. She designed this dark blue silk faille caplet and matching skirt, embellished with cord scrolls, and a net blouse, that was worn by Joan Caulfield as Jane Stanton in The Sainted Sisters (1948). #film #costume
American model and actress Suzy Parker was born #OnThisDay in 1932. She was photographed by Horst P. Horst wearing Dior's S/S 1952 "Jean-Pierre Grédy" haute couture ensemble consisting of a burgundy silk muslin bodice and black silk faille full skirt. @bonhams1793 #fashionhistory
This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this gorgeous Chanel little black dress. Designed in 1924, it is made from black crêpe chiffon and silk satin and embellished with a metal and crystal buckle. @LACMA collection. #fashionhistory
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She is gilded to within an inch of her life, the black wool highlighting the surfeit of gold dripping from Schiaparelli’s late #1930s evening jacket. Part couched goldwork, part rhinestone studs, all the sparkles @metmuseum #FashionHistory
ALT Front view of a short boxy black wool jacket with long sleeves and square shoulders. It is embellished with swirling goldwork motifs, denser at the centre front and more sparse along the shoulders and sleeves
ALT A detail of the dense goldwork embroidery that decorates the centre front of the black late 1930s Schiaparelli jacket. The motifs are studded with rhinestones
ALT An alternative detail of the sparser goldwork repeat decorating the sleeves of the late 1930s black wool evening jacket with a rhinestone studding each little pattern
American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath was born #OnThisDay in 1932. She wore this strapless nylon net and silver lamé dress, bought for $30 in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts, to the 1953 Yale Junior Prom. @smithcollege Historic Clothing Collection. #fashionhistory
American politician and lawyer, Hillary Rodham Clinton, was born #OnThisDay in 1947. She wore this Oscar de la Renta tailored teal-blue silk and wool blend trouser suit when she was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in 2001. @WJCLibrary42 #fashionhistory
American singer, actress, and fashion designer Juli Lynne Charlot was born #OnThisDay in 1922. She created the poodle skirt in 1947. Princess Elizabeth wore Charlot's Romeo and Juliet themed blue felt skirt to attend a hoedown in Ottawa, Canada, in 1951. @RCT #fashionhistory
Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso was born #OnThisDay in 1881. Yves Saint Laurent took inspiration from Picasso’s Portrait of Nusch Éluard (1937) to create this blue, black and ivory wool jacket for his A/W 1979 Hommage a Picasso collection. @YSL #fashionhistory #art
British actress and model Mia Goth was born #OnThisDay in 1993. She wore this Kate Hawley designed period wedding dress, made from 5 layers of organza and featuring a Swiss ribbon bodice created to imitate a rib cage, as Elizabeth Harlander in Frankenstein (2025). #film #costume
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#OTD in 1537, Jane Seymour died at Hampton Court Palace.
Assistant Curator Minette Butler shows us the Silverstick Staircase, which leads up to the old Tudor Queen's apartments where Jane gave birth to Edward VI only 12 days earlier. It is said that this staircase is haunted.
King James II of England and Ireland and VII of Scotland was born #OnThisDay in 1633. He wore this brown woollen broadcloth coat and breeches, embroidered with silver-gilt thread, for his 1673 wedding to Mary of Modena. @V_and_A collection. #fashionhistory
American couturier Main Rousseau Bocher, known as Mainbocher, was born #OnThisDay in 1890. He designed this custom evening ensemble, consisting of an 1830s-inspired pink silk blouse and black full-skirt for socialite Millicent Rogers. @metmuseum collection. #fashionhistory
English actress and singer Diana Dors was born #OnThisDay in 1931. She wore this light blue floral patterned evening jacket made of Lurex threaded lace when she met fellow actress Gloria Swanson in 1981. Sold by @JuliensAuctions. #fashionhistory
