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lookingbackatfashionhistory · 3 days

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• Dress.

Designer/Maker: H. Leitner

Date: ca. 1886

Medium: Machine-woven wool fabric with velvet and lace decoration, steel buckle, machine and hand stitching.

#fashion history #history of fashion #dress #fashion #19th century fashion #19th century dress #19th century #H. Leitner #ca. 1886

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fashionsfromhistory · 1 day

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Girl's Dress

c.1885

United States

The MET (Accession Number: 2009.300.2489a, b

#dress #fashion history #historical fashion #1880s #gilded age #bustle era #1885 #19th century #children's fashion #off white #silk #cotton #united states #the met

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historical-fashion-polls · 16 hours

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frostedmagnolias · 1 day

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Swedish Wedding Crown

early 18th century

Walters Art Museum

#18th century #historical fashion #history of fashion #fashion history #Swedish art #sweden #swedish #Swedish traditional #traditional clothing #frostedmagnolias

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eirene · 7 hours

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Veiled Woman Jean-Baptiste Santerre

#Jean-Baptiste Santerre #french art #1600s #1700s #chiaroscuro #art #painting #art history #fashion #portrait #fashion history #light play #Style Louis XIV

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clove-pinks · 2 days

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A comment from @northernmariette on the clothing conference at Fort Meigs.

It was nice to be back at Fort Meigs, but I am tall and shy and sat in the back of the room during the fashion show, taking a few bad pics because of the obstructed view.

I enjoyed the lectures and gathered some nice references. But I didn't go to the evening soirée event because I was too busy with other things.

The "beginner" fibre arts classes were above my level tbh; everyone was very friendly and nice but they were also Level 9000 Sewing Wizards and I felt out of place.

#fort meigs #regency #1810s #living history #fashion history #shaun talks #1790s #1800s

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lapinlavande · 8 months

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solid perfume necklace in the shape of a mussel from estée lauder, 1974

#mine #vintage #vintage perfume #solid perfume #estee lauder #fashion history #1974 #1970s #70s

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achronalart · 5 months

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FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

#Fashion history #art deco style #aniline dyes #1920s fashion

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marzipanandminutiae · 24 days

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I was about to be irritated at a shitty "kids' education" website on 1770s clothing but then I learned that there's a staymaker buried at King's Chapel and now I'm just delighted to know the gravesite of a clothing worker from that era and I want to take him flowers

#history #clothing history #fashion history #18th century

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die-rosastrasse · 1 month

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