Stays 1770s The Museum at FIT
La Bendición (de la mesa) Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin 1740. El detalle que más me llamó la atención es que no se sabía si eran niños o niñas porque en ese entonces los vestían igual, con el tiempo se ha determinado que el del primer plano, es niño.
“Una cacica indígena de la Nueva España a los 16 años de edad, días antes que entrara a un convento de monjas por el resto de su vida. Esta jovencita provenía de Tlatelolco y muy posiblemente fue al convento de Corpus Christi donde se admitían mujeres indígenas adineradas #CDMX”
Costumes + Maria Theresia (2017) Archduchess Maria Theresia’s creme riding gown with orange bows in Season 01, Episode 01.
THE JANET ARNOLD ARCHIVE Janet Arnold (1932-1998) was an influential figure in the drive for detailed and honest research into historical dress: both the styles and the methods of cut and construction. From her earliest days teaching at Hammersmith Day School and Royal Holloway College, she knew that the students …
Eleanor was a Georgian noblewoman and the adoptive sister of Kitty. She appears in the episode Something to Share? where she is portrayed by two actors: Charlotte Ritchie as Kitty's idealized memory of her, and more briefly by Emma Sidi as she really was. Eleanor was a dark-haired white woman of roughly the same age as Kitty. Outwardly, Eleanor gave the impression of being a good friend to her adopted sister Kitty, but in truth she was cruel and resented the fact that her father acknowledged Kit
THE JANET ARNOLD ARCHIVE Janet Arnold (1932-1998) was an influential figure in the drive for detailed and honest research into historical dress: both the styles and the methods of cut and construction. From her earliest days teaching at Hammersmith Day School and Royal Holloway College, she knew that the students …
Last week I showed you a very brief (from a historical perspective) 1920s Jean Patou dress with heavy beading and a bit of an Egyptian twist. You generally agreed that the mannequin wasn’t doing the dress many favours, but after that your opinions diverged: some of you thought it would have been so much better in bolder colours, some of you though that the restrained colour scheme was all that kept it from being garish; some of you though the dark beads were off, some thought it was exactly what the dress needed. Most of you thought that it was complete perfection, and the dress came in at 8.9 out of 10, just a hairs breath away from making a perfect 9. UPDATE: a historical costumer involved in the exhibition of this dress at the Palais Galleria informs me that it has NO provenance Madame Elisabeth. I’m leaving the blog post mostly as it was, so as not to sweep the mistake under the rug and cause confusion. I’ll remove any reference to Madame Elisabeth in …
Oscar winner Sandy Powell exclusively tells EW how she brought old jeans, African prints, and an unconventional spark to Yorgos Lanthimos' period film.
The season 2 teaser trailer for Outlander has been released, and it’s got a lot of interesting costume snippets. Season 2 is going to be a whole new world — we’re still in the lat…
From billowing dresses and maternity corsets intended to conceal a woman's baby bump to the formfitting trend seen on expectant mothers today, see how pregnancy fashion has changed over the years.
Sack back open gown of rose pink ribbed silk brocaded with scattered multicolored flower sprays and small cream flower sprigs, looped cre...
An 18th Century Covered Hat This hat is part of a new 1775-1785 ensemble we're working on that will be premiered in a Threaded Bliss post i...
THE JANET ARNOLD ARCHIVE Janet Arnold (1932-1998) was an influential figure in the drive for detailed and honest research into historical dress: both the styles and the methods of cut and construction. From her earliest days teaching at Hammersmith Day School and Royal Holloway College, she knew that the students …
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Oscar winner Sandy Powell exclusively tells EW how she brought old jeans, African prints, and an unconventional spark to Yorgos Lanthimos' period film.
R. Baldwin, 1781 - English essays
R. Baldwin, 1781 - English essays
Oscar winner Sandy Powell exclusively tells EW how she brought old jeans, African prints, and an unconventional spark to Yorgos Lanthimos' period film.
Ring, 1700s, with the inscription, “Many are the stars i see but in my eye no star like thee.”
