Fascinating! Dolls are one of my particular interests and I wasn't aware of these, I'll read your piece in more detail but on a quick scan I liked that you include Turriano's lutist. I'm sure you know of the 1590s rag doll held by the Swedish Royal Armoury? Maybe Mary's dolls were similar.

Hand-Coloured Fashion Plates 1770-1899 by Vyvyan Holland (Oscar Wilde's son). I don't know if this link will work, but here's a post about the book I can't wait to transfer to Flashes when that goes live.

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Yes, they were still in Brighton! Please excuse the watermark on a couple as I want to annoy the Pinterest hoovers-without-credit. The one without a watermark was published in my book Edwardian Fashion. Alt text includes more details.

First thing officially released from its storage unit suitcase and put on a hanger in the Frock Room. A c.1965 jacket made out of a fabulous Bernat Klein velvet tweed, where velvet ribbon was incorporated into the weft.

Most of the other dresses with spencers I know of, the spencers look more contemporary to the dress underneath like these 1820s V&A examples. The jacket on the blue dress is very similar to the one for the Killerton dress actually. V&A say c.1820 but I'd guess 1825-27 from sleeve and collar shape.

There's quite a number of those dress and spencer sets in museum collections from the 1810s to the 1820s. One of my most favourite ever dresses, a blue silk dress from c.1823 in the Killerton collection, has a matching jacket that looks a bit later, c.1827-8 with fuller sleeves. No pics of it :(

The idea of transformation dress has always fascinated me too! The patent you found really sounds/looks really quite similar to the elevator skirts of the 1860s-70s, usually worn over Balmoral petticoats

Or maybe I'll just play a single level a day for a bit to see if it gets any better. Meeting 3000 days today is quite an investment in an app that really isn't proving it deserves investment.

We are all four of us home, me and the beautiful green ladies. Jean Dessès's c.1958 chiffon pleats jewelled by Maison Lesage had a little peek out of their carrier, while 1937 Vionnet velvet sleeps in its box with a 1930s Ronald Morrel marvel in tender moss silk.

Of course I hand-couriered them.

Bod!

Pob was the one with the ears and permanently goosed expression that looked like a Tory MP's by-blow.

And Podd was the red ball

And God's the big guy upstairs according to many people.

May I also give a shout out to Kees van Dongen's "Plumes Blanches" from 1911 as another wonderful near-contemporaneous portrait of a highly fashionable, well-dressed woman of colour? (see www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...)

I know of Comme's brilliant dating codes, but this one, the tag with the code was cut so neatly that barely a thread showed on the outside, otherwise I'd have gotten an answer much quicker without resorting to Lens. When I knew where to look, I found this tiny strip deep inside the relevant seam.

Just followed a bunch of dress and textile history accounts. Now ready to rumble. One of the little books what I wrote below (upon a fabulous Italian miniskirt suit from 1967 that has sadly lost its label but I believe it could be by Mila Schön) #FashionHistory #1960sFashion

So this is Bluesky.

From my many recent unaccepted follow requests elsewhere (*hem*Meta*hem*), I know it's obligatory to put your bust out there with a pout and random numbers after your handle. Not my usual style, but I'll do my best.

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