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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Does anyone have a work-around for all Gallica direct links now being blocked (I presume to stop bots)? I have SO MANY saved links and stupidly didn't always note down the full citation. So now I have all these links to "evidence" that don't work. 🫠

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This "cycling outfit" for women from around 1900, featuring bloomers in wool twill with mother-of-pearl buttons and the tiniest waistline conceivable (Musée Galliera, Paris) 🗃️

colour photo of a mannequin dressed in a striped blue and white jacket with a very tightly cinched waist and light brown bloomer trousers

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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Love to hear Francesca Berry questioning the default binary arguments around domesticity and women--ignoring that men also inhabited the domestic, and that some women most famous for their domestic work have much work that is not that.

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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

De Young shows the Parisienne as a role that was performed and heavily judged, used to describe a host of imagined, idealized, and criticized women--racialized structures were used as tourist draws, and these types didn't reflect but also shaped culture.

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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Now Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social turning her fashion-in-paint skills to the cocottes, widows, amazones, shopgirls, with a through line of independence from control, indeterminacy, and labor politics.

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The Art of Parisian Chic

Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, The Art of Parisian Chic explores how women and artists in Imp…

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

My biggest teaching surprise of the Fall is that while I'm fine with teaching a 2-5pm class, I absolutely despise teaching a 3-6pm class. It doesn't seem like one hour should matter that much, but it does. I will never do it again if I can help it. 😅

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

We have some of the highest rainfall levels in the UK here on #Dartmoor in the South West. Waterproofs form a necessary and frequent part of the wardrobe, but they are nothing new. Here two #1860s gals braving the elements in proofed rain mantles. It’s only weather #FIDMMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Two mannequins posed in long, broad crinoline style rain mantles. One is dark cream and the other is brown. Both fasten centre front. One holds a brown umbrella aloft

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Archives as a Springboard: How PAFA Helped Reclaim Susan H. Bradley’s Legacy blog.pafaarchives.org/blog/uncateg... #womenartists #artherstory

A 3/4-length, old-timey photograph of a smiling white woman in a high-necked, puffy-sleeved black gown.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Had a lovely conversation about my new book with Miranda Melcher for the @NewBooksNetwork podcast. You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: newbooksnetwork.com/the-art-of-p...

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Justine De Young, "The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris" (Bloomsbury, 2025) - New Books Network

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Last week a German journalist contacted me after finding my book at MoMA, so I of course had to go see it there for myself! ❤️ My first time seeing it in a bookstore! Very exciting. 😍 Anyone who goes to see the Sargent show at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, please snap a pic of my book in that shop. 🙏

The Art of Parisian Chic in a bookstore display with other stacks of books.

Overall view of the book section of the MoMA bookstore with the display with The Art of Parisian Chic.

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Christie Stratos @christiestratos.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

1856 two-piece cocoa-brown silk taffeta day dress Dusty-rose silk braid terminating in hand-knotted fringe as applied collar, bell sleeves, and peplum Center-front two-tone cloth-covered button closures Trained skirt, cartridge-pleated center-back [Augusta Auctions] #19thc 🗃️ 🗃️🪡

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Thrilled to be presenting my newest research on Louise Abbéma and lesbian self-fashioning in Belle-Epoque Paris at the Feminist Art History Conference in DC on Sunday. #arthistory 🗃️

Public Selves, Private Lives:
Lesbian Self-Fashioning in Louise Abbéma’s Portraiture by Justine De Young. Crop of Abbéma’s Lunch in the Conservatory at right showing Abbéma lounging back on one elbow with a woman in a white dress seated at the table next to her. A small black dog eats off a plate on the ground. The divan is covered with a red oriental carpet and leopard skin. An older man stands behind the table with his hand in his pocket.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'll be presenting in-person on the 28th!

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Same. Make sure you don't accept the new TOS when you first login as they try to force you to. Instead click on the Terms of Service link and then go up to the account menu and find the delete your account button.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 18/09/2025

This arresting portrait by Washington G. Smith of Cooperstown, NY displays the fashionable silhouette on the cusp of the Natural Form era: swaths of draped silk taffeta in the back of the skirt, but no clear bustle. collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2769... 🗃️🪡

A studio photograph of a woman in a velvet-trimmed gown, with a dog curled up on a chair.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I'm virtually positive the 2 women on the left are the same and the 2 women on the right (boater/red hat) are the same, but do we think they're all the same woman? What about the 2 blondes? I think they're the same, but are they yet a 3rd woman? These are all paintings by Louise Abbéma. #arthistory

Blonde woman with bangs with her hair up in pink bodiced dress, red flowers in hair and at her chest. The same woman drinking tea in a purple blouse. Curly hair.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Transcription help! I can't make out the word/name "Vos lettres pornographiques, Esquier?, m’ont profondément révolté ! Comment l’austere Fontane, le mieux auteur de l’Histoire universelle, n’a trouvé a se loger que dans un replis es gorges-Pailly !" Fontane is Marius Fontane. 🗃️ #French

Vos lettres pornographiques, Esquier?, m’ont profondément révolté ! Comment l’austere Fontane, le mieux auteur de l’Histoire universelle, n’a trouvé a se loger que dans un replis es gorges-Pailly ! with sketch of postwoman delivering mail

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A gorgeous female Pipevine Swallowtail on Garden Phlox. The swallowtails seemingly surf across these flowers at breakneck speed. #Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋 #SwallowtailSeason #FlowersOnFriday

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

So thrilled to share this research with everyone at last!

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Stargazing in the daytime… You don’t have to wait for nightfall to view the stars when the cosmos are on the butterflies. Open each photo of this beautiful female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail to watch the movement of the cosmos in the second photo. #Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Dazzling 2,000 year-old Roman bowl made of translucent amber-coloured glass. Like a bowl full of sunshine! ☀️ Fabulous example of the skill of ancient glassmakers! British Museum 📷 by me www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

My photo shows a translucent amber coloured glass bowl with vertical rib decoration around the body with marvered white glass trails. The glass bowl glows in the display lighting as if it contains sunshine which reflects on the surface of the display case. Dimensions: Diameter 9.50 cm x Height 6 cm. On display at the British Museum.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Five minutes at the lake and I’ve been radicalized. Outboard motors are a scourge.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🎉Publication Day! *The Art of Parisian Chic* is now available in softcover, hardcover and ebook formats. Paperback is only $28!

Redheaded woman in black dress stands holding book with the same cover as the painting behind her, which depicts a woman in a 19th c. black dress staring out.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

This screenshot from Instagram is my only evidence my book was on sale (early!) in the Met’s “Sargent and Paris” gift shop. I went to photograph it today and it was sold out! Releases widely on August 7!

Sargent and Paris catalogues with a close crop of a white woman’s neck and a tiny view of The Art of Parisian Chic on a bookshelf behind.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Does Gallica just randomly go down for people in the middle of what would be the workday in France? Like surely this isn't maintenance...

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Saturdays in summer herald wedding season and this was a colourful bride, a gown worn by Harriet Joyce on June 8 1899 for her marriage to Percy Sams. This was a practical choice, one that perhaps meant Harriet wore it subsequently, a reminder of her wedding day on each outing, V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

The top half of a purple ensemble showing a high collared bodice with long sleeves, trimmed with white lace and a white insert centre front, the top of the matching skirt just visible

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Warning the hardcover version is even nicer 😅. Pre-order now, releasing August 7: www.bloomsbury.com/us/art-of-pa...

Cover of The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris with a woman standing, staring out and removing one glove. She wears a black dress and has a prominent tea rose in her hat. Vague office setting behind.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Selecting and copying some random text on my iphone and then immediately pasting it into my macbook (any application) makes me feel like I'm living in some kind of Star Trek future. I don't know how they're achieving this, but it feels like magic.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Discovering I can access newspapers.com from home thank to my NYPL card makes life so much easier.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Feels rather incongruous to have on my to do list for today: "email the French ministère de la Guerre" (to see if they still have a painting of white roses by Louise Abbéma) 🕊️

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Arthur Rackham - Watercolor of a cat - 1911

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Happy day! My advance copies have arrived! Available for preorder now (link in bio). Publishing August 7th! @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #fashionhistory #19thcentury #arthistory

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Your daily dose of Great Spangled Fritillary beauty on wild Thistle. #Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋 #InsectThursday

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

See a comparison fashion plate for the Jeanne Duval photo in replies to this thread (and in my book).

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Happy to see my students Wiki edits from our Spring Fashion and Impressionism seminar are getting seen! (I also discuss the photo in my forthcoming book ❤️)

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

“Preserving art, literature, and philosophy will require no less than the creation of an environment totally and uncompromisingly committed to abolishing the linguistic alienation created by AI and reintroducing students to the indispensability of their own voice.“

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Opinion | What I Learned Serving on My University’s AI Committee

What I learned serving on a university AI committee.

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Robert E. (He/him) @robertemond.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

#FashionFriday a mid 19th century dress on display at the National Costume Museum of Portugal housed in the Angeja-Palmela Palace. #FashionHistory #History #HistoricFashion #Travel #Museum #Photography 📸 #WestCoastKin

A blue 1860s dress with lace and tassels as trim. Photo by Robert Emond.

A neckline detail of an 1860s dress showing white lace and blue as well as white tassels. Photo by Robert Emond

A close up of an 1860s dress sleeve. Showing tassels and hand embroidered flowers. Photo by Robert Emond.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

All I want is a very cold cocktail on a very warm day while sitting beside a lukewarm body of water and nobody talking to me for six or 19 days.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Can’t wait. I know it will be fabulous!

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The tailormade was a chic addition to the fashionable wardrobe in the #1880s, echoing aesthetics of the sailor suit for seaside promenades. They don’t survive often, the fabric was often reused for children’s clothes so this is a rare example @museemccordstewart.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

The bodice of a white tailored serge promenade ensemble with red accents, decorative mother of pearl buttons and a high collar

Full length view of the white serge bustle style tailormade with asymmetric red accents and a fitted bodice

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A lovely Louise Abbéma portrait from 1891. Can anyone help me decipher the name? Looks like "Mme la Marquise de Gandzy"? Real Mme X (by Sargent) vibes. #arthistory #academicsky #fashionhistory

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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This is high art

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Very excited to see Louise Abbéma's 1879 Salon portrait (which I'd never seen before!) pop up on an auction site: drouot.com/fr/l/2882313... I think it may represent Marie-Caroline du Fresnay, but am not sure. Love the snake bracelet!

White woman seated in black silk dress, wearing yellow elbow-length gloves and a gold snake bracelet. Dress is ornamented with black jet beads and white flowers at the bust. She holds a fan and appears against a gold screen painted with flowers.

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 06/04/2025

We know from a little stripe at the top where a frame covered the painting that this Renoir didn't have a grey background but a lovely deep carmine

Portrait in its current state of a woman wearing a black dress and reconstructed original

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

After the past week, the kind of content I need right now: this beautiful, detailed rendering of a wild boar piglet by 16th-century German artist Hans Hoffman (not to be confused with abstract painter Hans Hofmann, whose name is spelled just slightly differently!)

Detailed rendering of an adorable wild boar piglet, its body striped

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