Daniel Milco
@milcod.bsky.social
A betterer bio to come about this curator guy who knows about frocks, social history and general stuff.
Yes, if you click on the ... you get the option to mute specific words and hashtags. Hashtags are even easier, you can click on them/hold your finger down and get the option to mute/block that hashtag. I use it for TV shows I don't have any interest in and other things I don't want to see
February 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Yes, if you click on the ... you get the option to mute specific words and hashtags. Hashtags are even easier, you can click on them/hold your finger down and get the option to mute/block that hashtag. I use it for TV shows I don't have any interest in and other things I don't want to see
That's so similar to the portrait it's almost uncanny. Thanks for sharing!
February 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
That's so similar to the portrait it's almost uncanny. Thanks for sharing!
Oh what a splendid feline!
February 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Oh what a splendid feline!
Actually, it's not dissimilar to the sentiment behind the expression "humbug!" is it?
Maybe humblebrag is an Americanism based upon misunderstanding or misremembering the term "humbug!" or trying to expand it into a less obviously rude term.
Maybe humblebrag is an Americanism based upon misunderstanding or misremembering the term "humbug!" or trying to expand it into a less obviously rude term.
February 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Actually, it's not dissimilar to the sentiment behind the expression "humbug!" is it?
Maybe humblebrag is an Americanism based upon misunderstanding or misremembering the term "humbug!" or trying to expand it into a less obviously rude term.
Maybe humblebrag is an Americanism based upon misunderstanding or misremembering the term "humbug!" or trying to expand it into a less obviously rude term.
I feel like that's very much an insult/attack on morals or character rather than calling them a humblebragger. I just imagine judgemental people staring at someone else they don't like and saying it as a way to cut them down to size/call them something horrible without using an actual swear word.
February 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I feel like that's very much an insult/attack on morals or character rather than calling them a humblebragger. I just imagine judgemental people staring at someone else they don't like and saying it as a way to cut them down to size/call them something horrible without using an actual swear word.
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.
February 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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.
Awwwwww. Reunited again, one hopes.
February 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Awwwwww. Reunited again, one hopes.
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.
www.facebook.com/share/p/19d1...
www.facebook.com/share/p/19d1...
February 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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.
www.facebook.com/share/p/19d1...
www.facebook.com/share/p/19d1...
Apologies, I get a bit carried away when I see contemporary fashion depicted so vividly in a painting and this shows a *lot* of the compositional tricks of the fashion plate trade. I can imagine Edouard and his sister discussing this work while it was in progress - her influence seems very visible.
February 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Apologies, I get a bit carried away when I see contemporary fashion depicted so vividly in a painting and this shows a *lot* of the compositional tricks of the fashion plate trade. I can imagine Edouard and his sister discussing this work while it was in progress - her influence seems very visible.
The composition of the figures seems heavily influenced by his sister's and aunt's commercial fashion plate work. Victorian fashion plates were based upon finished paintings, some of which amazingly still survive (mostly by Jules David), but they're usually watercolours rather than oils.
February 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The composition of the figures seems heavily influenced by his sister's and aunt's commercial fashion plate work. Victorian fashion plates were based upon finished paintings, some of which amazingly still survive (mostly by Jules David), but they're usually watercolours rather than oils.
A fun fashion plate conceit here: if you look at the women in the background immediately behind the two bigger figures, they're wearing the exact same hats, posed to show the back view so that the viewer knows how to replicate them. Maybe that's his sister Isabelle's influence.
February 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
A fun fashion plate conceit here: if you look at the women in the background immediately behind the two bigger figures, they're wearing the exact same hats, posed to show the back view so that the viewer knows how to replicate them. Maybe that's his sister Isabelle's influence.
It could well be a design for a panoramic fashion plate such as this - these panoramic plates are huge! collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O580321...
The New Extra Enlarged Fashion Plates of 15 Figures Comprising 12 Ladies and 3 Childrens Dresses of the Latest Paris Fashions | Léon Sault | V&A Explore The Collections
Leon Sault. 'Young Ladies Journal Monthly Panorama of Fashion' dated September 1875. Ladies and childrens' day dresses.
collections.vam.ac.uk
February 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It could well be a design for a panoramic fashion plate such as this - these panoramic plates are huge! collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O580321...
Vyvyan Holland showed a 1876 Isabelle Toudouze plate in his excellent Fashion Plates book showing two equally furbelowed, extravagantly attired women adrift at sea in a tiny rowboat. Frustratingly I can't find the plate online, but it's such a similar vibe to this painting by Isabelle'a brother.
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Vyvyan Holland showed a 1876 Isabelle Toudouze plate in his excellent Fashion Plates book showing two equally furbelowed, extravagantly attired women adrift at sea in a tiny rowboat. Frustratingly I can't find the plate online, but it's such a similar vibe to this painting by Isabelle'a brother.
And of course, Edouard Toudouze's Isabelle Toudouze's brother and Héloïse Leloir's nephew, both renowned fashion plate artists. Isabelle signed some plates showing similarly extraordinary scenes of active, beautifully but inappropriately dressed women which this reminded me of.
February 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
And of course, Edouard Toudouze's Isabelle Toudouze's brother and Héloïse Leloir's nephew, both renowned fashion plate artists. Isabelle signed some plates showing similarly extraordinary scenes of active, beautifully but inappropriately dressed women which this reminded me of.
What an extraordinary painting! Those are very unsuitable dresses for sandy beaches which makes me wonder if this is a design for a fashion plate as it's difficult to imagine long flower-bedecked frilled trains being worn on a beach, let alone having your knitting yarn lying on the sand.
February 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
What an extraordinary painting! Those are very unsuitable dresses for sandy beaches which makes me wonder if this is a design for a fashion plate as it's difficult to imagine long flower-bedecked frilled trains being worn on a beach, let alone having your knitting yarn lying on the sand.
To be honest, most of my published opening sentences aren't that punchy, I seem to tend towards a quite simple, factual statement, and then build from there. From Edwardian Fashion:
"The twentieth century had barely begun when Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901."
"The twentieth century had barely begun when Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901."
February 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
To be honest, most of my published opening sentences aren't that punchy, I seem to tend towards a quite simple, factual statement, and then build from there. From Edwardian Fashion:
"The twentieth century had barely begun when Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901."
"The twentieth century had barely begun when Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901."
Tried Mastodon twice, and just couldn't vibe with it. It felt like too much effort/too complicated just to get started and it felt like those initiated into how it worked were looking judgementally down their noses at you rather than willing to get you integrated. Not welcoming at all.
February 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Tried Mastodon twice, and just couldn't vibe with it. It felt like too much effort/too complicated just to get started and it felt like those initiated into how it worked were looking judgementally down their noses at you rather than willing to get you integrated. Not welcoming at all.
I need to get my head round that because I do that with a performers group list put together by someone, but I can't see how to follow the list without going to their profile and then to their lists. It wd be so good to follow a list like it was a feed, maybe that's possible but not worked out how.
February 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I need to get my head round that because I do that with a performers group list put together by someone, but I can't see how to follow the list without going to their profile and then to their lists. It wd be so good to follow a list like it was a feed, maybe that's possible but not worked out how.
I just hope @support.bsky.team provides a "Mute Retweets" option soon too, because some people I love, but they really retweet every single thing they see and I've had to mute their entire accounts despite enjoying the 5% of content that's their own.
February 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I just hope @support.bsky.team provides a "Mute Retweets" option soon too, because some people I love, but they really retweet every single thing they see and I've had to mute their entire accounts despite enjoying the 5% of content that's their own.
Also the mute specific tags/words option, especially great for when people talk about TV shows* you're genuinely not interested in, so you can mute those specific posts while seeing their other opinions.
*"TV shows" also refers to many other things, including bad for mental health things.
*"TV shows" also refers to many other things, including bad for mental health things.
February 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Also the mute specific tags/words option, especially great for when people talk about TV shows* you're genuinely not interested in, so you can mute those specific posts while seeing their other opinions.
*"TV shows" also refers to many other things, including bad for mental health things.
*"TV shows" also refers to many other things, including bad for mental health things.