I love how portraits allow us to watch their subjects age. This is Federico Ubaldo della Rovere (16 May 1605 – 28 June 1623), Duke of Urbino from infancy to childhood.

#history #portraiture

Dress consisting of three parts -two bodices and one skirt.

Circa 1867, Italy

Silk taffeta, straw embroidery

Source: The Dreamstress, thedreamstress.com/2...

Saving this for unsolicited drunk corset discourse

My little pastry is so talented 🥺

Teaching lovely costume students tomorrow and we are looking at the characterisation of the iconic Miss Havisham through the deterioration of her wedding dress. Here she is perhaps in happier times when the dress was new and her hopes were high, early #1830s, LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

calendering, where the fabric is folded in half and pressed through rollers that combine the threads together in irregular ways so that light is reflected differently. Sadly, doing this also weakens the threads, causing them to split. #ootd #Fashionhistory

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1 - Welcome to #ThreadTalk! Get ready for #fashionhistory – it’s been a while, but I'm back.

Today’s topic is All That Glitters – we’re talking about fashioning fabric with gold and metal, but especially real gold.

Below, 1610-1620 - Dress of Electress Magdalena Syblla of Saxony.

Now we have this 1810 French evening dress made of yellow silk trimmed with white silk lace. This dress is dyed using the weld, the same natural dye as the 1760 Robe a la francaise, showing how it was still a popular dye 50 years later. #ootd #Fashionhistory

I hope to eventually move over most, if not all, of my tweets over here. So here is a thread of all my #Thanksgiving posts from the last 7 years.

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1 - Welcome to #ThreadTalk! Today we’re talking #fashionhistory with a Rhapsody in Blue! Nature’s rarest color.

Of course, the sky isn’t blue. That’s Rayleigh scattering. 🔹

Rare as it is, humans have still been wearing blue a long time. (Below: 1858 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

Charles Frederick Worth was partial to referencing the natural world in his lavish textiles. This historically influenced mid #1880s ballgown consists of a voided velvet with arum lily repeating, trimmed with bunches of ribbon and creamy lace, Kerry Taylor Auctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

#Ootd is this 1760 British Robe a la francaise. People like to think that outfits in the past were drab or dull, but past eras had a love of color that could rival today. This gown is made of silk taffeta, dyed with weld, a natural dye that produces a bright, clear yellow from a compound called

Here is a mid-19th century (probably 1840s) yellow silk, which has been dyed with picric acid. It was first synthesized in 1771 by nitrating indigo and therefore considered a semi-synthetic. Nitrated organics are highly explosive and so were also used as an explosive during World War I. It could

#Ootd is this 1780 French ensemble of a silk satin caraco and ankle-length skirt, also dyed with weld. It is an interesting example of the transition between the 1760 Robe a la Francaise and the 1810 Empire dress because it features a shortened skirt and a horizontal separation of the bodice and