Categories
- Accessories (21)
- Announcements (4)
- As Seen In (38)
- Beauty & Cosmetics (49)
- Books (37)
- Canadian dress (182)
- Clothing customs (25)
- Costuming (8)
- Designers/Couturiers (87)
- Ethnographic (3)
- Fadshions (16)
- fancy dress (21)
- Fashion (76)
- Fashion History Museum (94)
- Fashion in song (59)
- fashion industry (28)
- fashionistas (1)
- Faux Pas (10)
- film costuming (80)
- gender (19)
- Glossary (20)
- history (29)
- Men's fashion (38)
- millinery (44)
- Miscellaneous (28)
- Museum Exhibitions (58)
- Myth Information (25)
- Obscurier Couturiers (50)
- Off the Rack (8)
- Other collections/museums (6)
- Patent fashions (23)
- Photos (33)
- Retailing (47)
- Shoes (102)
- Shop Windows (21)
- sportswear (44)
- Style shakers (10)
- Textiles (34)
- underwear (31)
- Vintage Cleaning tips (2)
- Vintage clothing (38)
- Wedding (9)
Meta
Author Archives: Jonathan
Patches
That Time the French Aristocracy Was Obsessed With Sexy Face Stickers
Posted in Beauty & Cosmetics
Leave a comment
Vintage cleaning tips: Cleaning lace
I run across a variety of cleaning tips in old magazines etc. and I am sure some of them are good… Here is one from the back of a cigarette card that I doubt I will be trying anytime soon, … Continue reading
Posted in Vintage Cleaning tips
Leave a comment
Beefcake with your cheesecake
A recent article on Messy Nessy brought up a little known piece of sexist uniform history – beefcake carhops. According to Paula Bosse of Flashback Dallas in the late 1930s “Women were dressing in scanty outfits, hula skirts, midriff-baring costumes, to serve drive-in … Continue reading
Posted in gender, Men's fashion
Leave a comment
The Underpinnings Museum
I just discovered a new museum of underwear. The Underpinning Museum was founded late last year in England and is currently only online but they do pop-up exhibitions and events that are listed on their site (underpinningsmuseum.com).
Posted in Other collections/museums, underwear
Leave a comment
Fadshions – ‘Ya-ya’ The First Miniskirt
This should forever end the debate over who ‘invented’ the first miniskirt. It turns out it wasn’t Mary Quant, or Andres Courreges, or John Bates, or Rudi Gernreich, or Marimekko… Although not yet called ‘miniskirts’, the earliest above-the knee dresses … Continue reading
Banners Banned
CAMBRIDGE — The sculptured lower torso of Michelangelo’s David is sandwiched by two red fields. In his right hand, the Goliath-slaying rock is clutched. And covering the naked David’s privates? Not a fig leaf, as was added to a Victorian … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion History Museum
Leave a comment
WTF — What the Fashion?
We aren’t even half way through 2017 and some of the worst fashions have descended upon us this year. On the good side, these fashion disasters are the only news stories that can even begin to compete with the Trump presidency: … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Faux Pas
3 Comments
Before the Rainbow was gay
Rainbow patterns were popular in fashion during the 1970s, before Gilbert Baker adapted the motif in 1978 for a rainbow flag to represent the diversity of the gay community. San Francisco’s first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, used the flag as a … Continue reading
James Bond – the fashion model
Both Sean Connery and Roger Moore had more in common than being James Bond – they were also models, but very different kinds of models. Roger Moore donned cardigans and sweater-vests in the late 1940s and early 1950s while Sean Connery often … Continue reading