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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 20h

Landscape with Woman (1907) by José Villegas Cordero (Spanish, 1844-1921) Museo de La Rioja, Spain

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tying Her Shoe (c. 1910) by Walter Westley Russell (British, 1867-1949) Gallery Oldham, U.K. @artukdotorg.bsky.social

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’d like to propose an autumn filled with plummy crushed velvet which feels entirely appropriate as summer has given way to chill September mornings here in the South West of England. It would feel like hoiking around your own cosy sofa. Late #1880s #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Side view of a deep purple velvet bustle dress with high collar, fitted button down bodice and ruched skirt

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Portrait of Mrs. A. Lawrence Rotch (Margart Randolph Anderson, 1867-1941) 1903 by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Gown by Callot Soeurs

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Look what just arrived! I’m looking forward to reading this! @katestrasdin.bsky.social

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Portrait of a Lady with Pink Roses (1883) by Clemens Jakob Bewer (German, 1820-1884) Private collection

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Blue Ribbon (c. 1894) by Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906) Private collection

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Portrait of Maria Soulier (1889) by Charles Hermans (Belgian, 1839-1924) Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Portrait of Luise des Coudres (1859-1915) 1877 by Ludwig des Courdes (German, 1820-1878) Private collection Luise was the artist’s daughter.

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taking the Waters (1874) by Charles Édouard Boutibonne (French, 1816-1897) Private collection

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Isabel Álvarez Montes, 2nd Marchioness of Valderas and 2nd Duchess of Castro Enríquez (1868) by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (Spanish, 1815-1894) @museodelprado.es

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Portrait of a Lady by Charles Wynne Nicholls (British, 1831-1903) Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England @artukdotorg.bsky.social

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Passing of Summer (1912) by Harry Watrous (American, 1857-1940) @metmuseum.org In the autumn of 1911, Watrous noticed a woman seated alone at a table in a French restaurant and asked her, "Well, has Prince Charming appeared?" She replied, "No, and this is the passing of summer."

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Passing of Summer (1912) by Harry Watrous (American, 1857-1940) @metmuseum.org

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Kiss (1858) by Ferdinand Georg Waldmueller (Austrian, 1793-1865) Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, Germany

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Topaz (1879) by Albert Joseph Moore (British, 1841-1893) Private collection

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ernesta (1914) by Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855-1942) @metmuseum.org The sitter is the artist's niece, Ernesta Drinker.

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Young Woman in White (1904) by Robert Henri (American, 1865-1929) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The sitter was a professional model, Czech-born Eugenie Stein.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From enormous sleeves to the biggest skirt and a bright pink late #1860s ballgown from the French fashion house of Emile Pingat. Minimal embellishment, all of the drama reserved for the proportions @AlbanyInstitute #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Back view of a bright pink crinoline dress with a decorative peplum centre back and short white net trimmed sleeves and décolletage

Front view of the bright pink silk 1860s ballgown with short sleeved bodice and ruffle hem

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My Lady Fair (1903) by Frank Bernard Dicksee (British, 1853-1928) Manchester Art Gallery, U.K. @artukdotorg.bsky.social

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lady in White Dress (1902) by Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931) Gallery of Modern Art, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Portrait of Helena Cerchowa (1898) by Stanisław Cercha (Polish, 1867-1919) The National Museum in Kraków, Poland A portrait of the artist’s sister

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Young Woman (c. 1898) by Abbott H. Thayer (American, 1849-1921) @metmuseum.org Bessie Price (1879-1968), an Irish immigrant who worked as a servant in Thayer’s household, modeled for this painting, which won a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition.

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Portrait of Madame la Comtesse de Cambacérès (1895) by William Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Seattle Art Museum, Washington

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A more home-grown beauty: Titian hair against a Morris-style background—"Oleander," in tempera, by Henry Ryland (1856-1924) victorianweb.org/painting/ryl...

Softly rippling Pre-Raphaelite hair against the pink blossoms of the background; the young woman wears a plain blue gown with gathered sleeves and a stole with a pretty stencilled border

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New England Woman (1895) by Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855-1942) Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia The sitter is Julia Leavitt (Mrs. Jedediah H. Richards), the artist’s cousin.

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Portrait of a Lady (1895) by Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Italian, 1859-1933) Private collection

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lady in the countryside (1889) by Giacomo Grosso (Italian, 1860-1938) National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Portrait of Lady Campbell, née Nina Lehmann [1861-1933] (1884) by John Everett Millais (British, 1829-1896) Private collection

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Young Lady in White (c. 1880) by Paul César Helleu (French, 1859-1927) Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indiana

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Portrait of a Woman in White (1879) by Eva Gonzalès (French, 1849-1883) Private collection

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Marguerite (1870) by William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How well the landscape suits her (or how well she suits that background!). She really seems to belong there.

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Portrait of a lady (c. 1856) by Francis Grant (Scottish, 1803-1878) Tate Britain

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Barbara von Schickh, as the bride of Wolfgang Ritter von Manner (1833) by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865) Vienna Museum, Austria

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s publication day in the USA!! I am so lucky to have this lovely looking edition by @pegasusbooks.bsky.social & I hope my American friends enjoy! Queen Alexandra’s c1910 Doeuillet dress #FashionMuseumBath feels suitably spectacular. Thanks for all of the lovely support here #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Front view of a purple chiffon evening dress with short metallic lace trimmed sleeves. It is covered with scrolling goldwork embroidery

Back view of the c1910 purple chiffon evening dress which highlights the train at the back also covered with goldwork embroidery

The cover of the US edition of my book Dressing the Queen which is published today!

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Apples (1877-1878) by Eva Gonzalès (French, 1849-1883) Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Lady in Yellow by Max Nonnenbruch (German, 1857-1922) Private collection

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Jeune fille en jaune by Elisabeth Sonrel (French, 1874-1953) Private collection

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

White gowns with black soutache braid were popular ensembles in the 1860s & early 1860s, representative of summer days & relaxation. In James Tissot’s 1870 painting it appeared in the form of The Convalescent, a young woman recuperating @metmuseum.org @agotoronto.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A figure styled as an 1860s woman wearing a white crinoline ensemble consisting of a plain waistcoat with black buttons, a short cutaway jacket and broad skirt. Both skirt and jacket are trimmed at the edges with black soutache braid

A detail of the geometric pattern used for the black soutache braid that trims the skirt and jacket of the 1860s ensemble

A painting by James tissot depicting a young woman sitting on the floor leaning sideways against cushions. She is wearing a dress similar to the 1860s white dress with a black soutache trim

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Portrait of a lady, yellow gown, purple scarf (1892) by Rodolfo Amoedo (Brazilian, 1857-1941) National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dans l’atelier; le repos du modèle (1857) by Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906) Private collection

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Catharina, Baroness von Koudelka (c. 1821-1822) by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865) Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

According to this early #1880s dressing gown, quilted royal blue silk offers the perfect backdrop for an abundance of white floral embroidery, flowers and leaves large and small with cream silk cord frogged fastenings @friesmuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡