Kate Strasdin
@katestrasdin.bsky.social
Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
This is an unusual placement of pleating, Mme Grès deploying her trademark pleats in silk jersey with more coverage across the arms and chat than previous iterations. It is like the Great Flood here so I am channelling its sunny energy. Early 1970s #fondationazzedinealaia #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is an unusual placement of pleating, Mme Grès deploying her trademark pleats in silk jersey with more coverage across the arms and chat than previous iterations. It is like the Great Flood here so I am channelling its sunny energy. Early 1970s #fondationazzedinealaia #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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#Ootd is very unique, a 1920 jacket made by and for Paul Poiret! He had many examples of this "Norfolk" design with its buttoned-down front and belt at the waist. In fact, most of the pictures we have of him designing or painting are in a variation of this jacket, linking it with
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
#Ootd is very unique, a 1920 jacket made by and for Paul Poiret! He had many examples of this "Norfolk" design with its buttoned-down front and belt at the waist. In fact, most of the pictures we have of him designing or painting are in a variation of this jacket, linking it with
Fresh off the frame and I decided to adapt a traditional wedding sampler to reflect a different life event. It took me a year to complete and marked the journey pre and post surgery. Excuse the crinkles, must iron!
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Fresh off the frame and I decided to adapt a traditional wedding sampler to reflect a different life event. It took me a year to complete and marked the journey pre and post surgery. Excuse the crinkles, must iron!
Remaining on the theme of appropriate autumnal coats, this is a #1930s velvet number bringing all the aesthetics of a luxury pumpkin to the party. A coat padded collar and bottom covering hem for cosiness #FIDMMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Remaining on the theme of appropriate autumnal coats, this is a #1930s velvet number bringing all the aesthetics of a luxury pumpkin to the party. A coat padded collar and bottom covering hem for cosiness #FIDMMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Second-hand clothes shop, Seven Dials, St Giles, London, 1877-78. Photograph by John Thomson (1837-1921). More here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O78700/...
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Second-hand clothes shop, Seven Dials, St Giles, London, 1877-78. Photograph by John Thomson (1837-1921). More here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O78700/...
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In my recent lecture on mourning, I talked about how the royal family and world leaders now symbolically perform moruning on the behalf of their nations, instead of whole countries going into mourning together. www.thecourtjeweller.com/2025/11/sent...
Sentimental and Somber Royal Jewels on Remembrance Sunday in London
Members of the British royal family were in Whitehall this morning for the annual Remembrance Sunday service, a solemn gathering to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation. A...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
In my recent lecture on mourning, I talked about how the royal family and world leaders now symbolically perform moruning on the behalf of their nations, instead of whole countries going into mourning together. www.thecourtjeweller.com/2025/11/sent...
Chestnut coloured velvet with cushion like sleeves designed by the fashion house of Worth for your autumnal wardrobe. Mid #1890s, so expansive in proportions and embellishment, all tied up with a big silk bow @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Chestnut coloured velvet with cushion like sleeves designed by the fashion house of Worth for your autumnal wardrobe. Mid #1890s, so expansive in proportions and embellishment, all tied up with a big silk bow @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Annie Parker #stitch ed this sampler (now on show in our #CM150 exhibition) using her own hair as thread and gave it to the Rev John Horsley, chaplain to Clerkenwell Prison. In 1884 he gave it to our collection - Parker herself died the following year of TB aged only 35. #Museum30 #womensart
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Annie Parker #stitch ed this sampler (now on show in our #CM150 exhibition) using her own hair as thread and gave it to the Rev John Horsley, chaplain to Clerkenwell Prison. In 1884 he gave it to our collection - Parker herself died the following year of TB aged only 35. #Museum30 #womensart
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"The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." 🥹
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." 🥹
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American actress and singer Dorothy Lamour was born #OnThisDay in 1914. She wore this Edith Head designed black satin, long-sleeved v-neck dress as the nightclub singer the Countess in the 1942 film, The Fleet's In. Sold by Bonhams. #film #costume #dress
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
American actress and singer Dorothy Lamour was born #OnThisDay in 1914. She wore this Edith Head designed black satin, long-sleeved v-neck dress as the nightclub singer the Countess in the 1942 film, The Fleet's In. Sold by Bonhams. #film #costume #dress
A delectable description, this late #1950s Balenciaga is a ginger coloured shantung silk with silver embroidery and sequins. It has an asymmetric hem that sweeps behind the wearer #museobalenciaga #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A delectable description, this late #1950s Balenciaga is a ginger coloured shantung silk with silver embroidery and sequins. It has an asymmetric hem that sweeps behind the wearer #museobalenciaga #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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A lovely piece from our collection for today’s #Museum30 theme of Stitch – a ‘Friendship Cloth’, owned and used by the donor’s grandmother, Sylvia Ashbridge of Grove Park, Wanstead, who had friends visiting for tea sign and embroider (or embroidered herself) their names from around the year 1870. 🪡
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A lovely piece from our collection for today’s #Museum30 theme of Stitch – a ‘Friendship Cloth’, owned and used by the donor’s grandmother, Sylvia Ashbridge of Grove Park, Wanstead, who had friends visiting for tea sign and embroider (or embroidered herself) their names from around the year 1870. 🪡
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#Museum30 This ca. 1806 needlework picture imagines Palemon and Lavinia, the rural lovers of a 1720s poem by James Johnson based on the story of Ruth, as contemporaries of the artist, Sophia Burpee (1788-1814). 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/496/...
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#Museum30 This ca. 1806 needlework picture imagines Palemon and Lavinia, the rural lovers of a 1720s poem by James Johnson based on the story of Ruth, as contemporaries of the artist, Sophia Burpee (1788-1814). 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/496/...
How to make a statement as a new bride. This is a going away outfit by Madame Hayward, worn in 1899. There would be no fear of missing the newlyweds as they departed after the nuptials in this strikingly coloured and embellished ensemble #KelvingroveArt @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
How to make a statement as a new bride. This is a going away outfit by Madame Hayward, worn in 1899. There would be no fear of missing the newlyweds as they departed after the nuptials in this strikingly coloured and embellished ensemble #KelvingroveArt @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Worn #onthisday in 1908 by Anna Lieftinck at her #wedding to Jonkheer Teding van Berkhout in Groningen, Holland. The gown was originally worn with a wide, ruffled lace flounce covering the upper part of the bodice and a lace veil Anna borrowed from the groom’s sister. #OTD @rijksmuseum.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Worn #onthisday in 1908 by Anna Lieftinck at her #wedding to Jonkheer Teding van Berkhout in Groningen, Holland. The gown was originally worn with a wide, ruffled lace flounce covering the upper part of the bodice and a lace veil Anna borrowed from the groom’s sister. #OTD @rijksmuseum.bsky.social
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#Ootd isn't an outfit, but accessories Paul Poiret produced from designs by his Atelier Martine. All have bright, whimsical, floral patterns- a 1912 bamboo umbrella, a 1911 silk and wool cap, and a pair of 1924 "the Roses" shoes of embroidered velvet and silk chenille. #fashionhistory #paulpoiret
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 AM
#Ootd isn't an outfit, but accessories Paul Poiret produced from designs by his Atelier Martine. All have bright, whimsical, floral patterns- a 1912 bamboo umbrella, a 1911 silk and wool cap, and a pair of 1924 "the Roses" shoes of embroidered velvet and silk chenille. #fashionhistory #paulpoiret
I can’t quite work out the techniques deployed here in Marc Bohan’s early 1970s cocktail dress designed for Dior. Is it crochet or a particular kind of loose weave or macrame? I like it though and am trying to imagine it on a body! @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I can’t quite work out the techniques deployed here in Marc Bohan’s early 1970s cocktail dress designed for Dior. Is it crochet or a particular kind of loose weave or macrame? I like it though and am trying to imagine it on a body! @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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The rest of the second display on Paul Poiret's family life has these four other objects: 1. A 1919 "Tout de suite" gown of velvet silk. 2. A 1914 wig worn by Poiret himself! 3. Another dress by Nicole Grout, Poiret's sister, this one from 1921. 4. A 1910 woodblock print
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The rest of the second display on Paul Poiret's family life has these four other objects: 1. A 1919 "Tout de suite" gown of velvet silk. 2. A 1914 wig worn by Poiret himself! 3. Another dress by Nicole Grout, Poiret's sister, this one from 1921. 4. A 1910 woodblock print
What better for a rainy Friday (here at least!) than a spectacular gown from the generally spectacular wardrobe of Queen Maud of Norway. Dating to c1908 it incorporates an outer shell of sparkle over softer layers #nasjonalmuseet #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
What better for a rainy Friday (here at least!) than a spectacular gown from the generally spectacular wardrobe of Queen Maud of Norway. Dating to c1908 it incorporates an outer shell of sparkle over softer layers #nasjonalmuseet #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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November 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Paul Poiret extended his brand beyond clothing, including perfume and interior design. This is common today, but he was one of the first to do so. His interior design house, Atelier Martine, was named after his daughter. He also created the Martine School of Decorative Arts, where 12-year-old girls
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Paul Poiret extended his brand beyond clothing, including perfume and interior design. This is common today, but he was one of the first to do so. His interior design house, Atelier Martine, was named after his daughter. He also created the Martine School of Decorative Arts, where 12-year-old girls
I am one of those strange creatures who loves a sickly soft centre when it comes to a tray of chocolates. This mid #1940s Charles James ballgown has always reminded me of a strawberry creme, or is that just me? @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I am one of those strange creatures who loves a sickly soft centre when it comes to a tray of chocolates. This mid #1940s Charles James ballgown has always reminded me of a strawberry creme, or is that just me? @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Paul Poiret was not the only fashion designer in his family. His sister Nicole Groult also became a fashion designer in the 1900s to the 1930s. Like her brother, she also participated in abolishing the corset in her designs. Here we have a 1912 afternoon gown, produced at the
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Paul Poiret was not the only fashion designer in his family. His sister Nicole Groult also became a fashion designer in the 1900s to the 1930s. Like her brother, she also participated in abolishing the corset in her designs. Here we have a 1912 afternoon gown, produced at the
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If you missed our seminar on Georgian Women yesterday it will shortly be available to watch via our website
Thanks to our excellent speakers yesterday for another fascinating seminar. We learnt about Jane Austen, Martha Gunn and the delights (not always!) of a trip to the Georgian seaside
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If you missed our seminar on Georgian Women yesterday it will shortly be available to watch via our website