Our dress of the week takes us back to the 18th century, and down a historical adventure that includes a big family in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a schoolhouse, and one tenacious woman who stopped at nothing to reclaim her father's acquired lands (read: stolen, but I digress).

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This stunning purple 1887 wedding dress from Australia is the subject our Dress of the Week.

The story goes far beyond the gown's beauty, however, into the very real horrors of colonialism, racism, and the plight of Aboriginal Australians.

You can read more over on Patreon.

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As is so often the case, the Dress of the Week is so much more than she initially appears.

Over on Patreon, we're talking Worth, Orientalism, the scandal of divorce, and yet another woman reduced to the sum of her beauty in the wake of her husband's career.

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The #threadtalk Dress of the Week is all about beetles!

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https://www.patreon.com/posts/80848955

Today is a 1770 robe à la Française. It's got two features I particularly squee about: gold brocade and a quilted petticoat. It's got silk for miles, and that delicate floral pattern of stripes and texture really works to the advantage of brocade. The satin petticoat is a gorgeous merlot hue in contrast.

The note says it's either Spanish or Italian. You often see that lower drop at the bodice outside of England and France at this time.
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This week's #threadtalk #dressoftheweek is a satin confection. Seriously, it's very "is this cake or is this a gown?"

But the real story starts when we do some historical sleuth work to uncover the tale of a now defunct department store that first opened in Cincinnati in 1833.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/dress-of-week-79504946?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Thus continues my obsession with transitional gowns... 1830s.

That color? Purple, always. Of course. For a 200 year old dress, the hue is still so striking. It is not Perkins Purple, however, as it’s two decades too early for that.

The weave? I damn near fell out of my chair looking at it.

ALSO: that silk damask? It’s almost 100 years older than the dress itself. Fould it have been Spitalfields? Maybe!

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I saw this two-piece day dress and I just had to share it. Because look at that sapphire silk! Great balls and cotillions, that is just such a shimmering, arresting hue.

This kind of fabric gives me vapors.

It's Jacquard woven, so it's further along the industrial weaving technology story. Jacquard looms helped to speed up complex weaving as well as provide a kind of programming framework via punch cards--this eventually paved the way for computers.

#threadtalk #fashionhistory #textiles

The dress of the week is a history lesson about Chantilly lace AND the 19th amendment.

It's amazing what you can learn from a gown...

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https://www.patreon.com/posts/78681437

I've syndicated my #Christmas #fashionhistory #threadtalk from last year over on Post!

If you think that holiday fashion is easy and fun, think again. I keep it light, but as so many things, the history we believe and history as it happened are very different things.

https://post.news/article/2J8dCt8zj7BAT9jnSVB6f49Elwa

I've syndicated my #Christmas #fashionhistory #threadtalk from last year over on Post!

If you think that holiday fashion is easy and fun, think again. I keep it light, but as so many things, the history we believe and history as it happened are very different things.

https://post.news/article/2J8dCt8zj7BAT9jnSVB6f49Elwa

Jeden z mých top filmů za poslední roky (i když vím, že se jinak skoro nikomu nelíbil). Pohled přes kostýmy.
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1 - Hey folks! It's a surprise #threadtalk on the medieval theme of the moment: #TheGreenKnight! I just had to come out of hibernation to talk about what I saw in the theater.

Velvet! Crêpe! CROWNS! Pentagrams! I've got you covered. Well, at least *partially*. 📗🪓
https://twitter.com/NataniaBarron/status/1422348143233011712

Jeden z mých top filmů za poslední roky (i když vím, že se jinak skoro nikomu nelíbil). Pohled přes kostýmy.
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RT @NataniaBarron
1 - Hey folks! It's a surprise #threadtalk on the medieval theme of the moment: #TheGreenKnight! I just had to come out of hibernation to talk about what I saw in the theater.

Velvet! Crêpe! CROWNS! Pentagrams! I've got you covered. Well, at least *partially*. 📗🪓
https://twitter.com/NataniaBarron/status/1422348143233011712

A share a short history of wigs over in my #ThreadTalk TT channel.

It gets pretty dark rather fast. ☠️

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR4hT1FN/

This cotton gown from the John Bright Collection dates from the last part of the 1820s. It's especially decadent because the pattern was made by a process called Lapis. It combined block printing techniques (remember chintz?) with resist printing, pastes, and dying and overdying, to create mind-blowing detail.

Suffice it to say, it was very expensive to produce Lapis dyed fabrics, so we know this wearer had access to lots of bucks. #fashionhistory #threadtalk #fashion

Today on my TT #ThreadTalk channel, I’m talking about bast fibers, linen, and lace! #fashion #fashionhistory https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRCQACT5/

Some colors just make my heart happy. This gown is dates from 1840-1850, potentially of German origin. If you like layer cake gowns with staying power, this is ideal.

Miles of rose pink taffeta silk, Chinese style embroidery, and those mirrored V shapes at the bodice top and bottom just make this perfect for a princess (or a princess at heart). The embroidery at the bottom of the bodice just kills me it's so beautiful & delicate.

#fashion #fashionhistory #threadtalk #victorian

Berry red, indeed! This holly holiday ensemble dates from 1886, and is by Selina Cadwallader, who sadly died the same year at only 50. Originally from Ireland, no one is really sure how Selina made her way to Ohio, but by 1870 she was making dresses & running a board house.

She was beloved and highly respected dressmaker in her time, and her dresses are absolutely works of art. #FashionHistory #ThreadTalk #fashion #1880s #history #arthistory

Unusual color combinations are one of my favorite things to stumble upon, and the 1890s are fabulous for finding them. Deep olive green velvet, black and yellow satin, and floral sprays combine with leg of mutton sleeves and ruffles, ruffles, ruffles!

This dress dates from 1895 and is French, but was imported to the US. So very Crimson Peak!

#fashionhistory #threadtalk #fashion #1890s

In the late 1800s, the Western market was absolutely besotted with dressing gowns.

This 1885 deep berry dressing gown is covered in astonishingly beautiful embroidery featuring birds and lilies. It was made in Japan, specifically for Western audiences. The silk is faille so it drapes absolutely beautifully, and the detail on the pattern is one of the most stunning things I've seen in a long time. #threadtalk #fashionhistory #embroidery