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Women, women’s history, dress history, art history, books, politics, wine…under a French sky. Formerly Twitter (X) AStitchInTime13

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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 17h
☔️ ‘Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon’ is a small but well worth seeing (and it’s free!) exhibition at the V&A. Until 3 January 2027.
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 17h
A very Happy Birthday to you! 💐
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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This week's #ThirtiesThursday garment is this Lucien Lelong evening dress in the most gorgeous green silk velvet. Dating from 1934, the dress was worn by Jane Taussig and later donated to the Chicago History Museum collection. #fashionhistory
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Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest Substack article examines the Georgian origins of tartan as a fashion staple...and of course I had to talk about the Duchess of Gordon! #history #scottishhistory When Did Tartan Become a Fashion Must-Have? historicallybrunette.substack.com/p/when-did-t...
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When Did Tartan Become a Fashion Must-Have?
Time for some Scottish fashion history
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is something curiously bird-like about this gown, with a layered plumage cascading at the back. It is sumptuously described as being made from raspberry coloured lace, and is beautifully layered, crafted in 1958 by Jean Dessés #philamuseumart #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Back view of a layered strapless red lace dress. It has a fitted bodice and a flat front with an expanse of layered lace at the back like the tail of a birdFront view of the red lace strapless 1950s evening dress showing the flat front and the layered sculpted back
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@channel4news.bsky.social Well done Andy Burnham, working through his tears to deliver the speech he wanted to deliver.
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Could this be the perfect evening shoe? Designed by Roger Vivier for Dior, Paris, 1954. Description here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O138244...
Black silk satin evening pump with a tulle rosette on the toe and high stiletto heel. Long squared-off pointed toe, V&A
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Could this be the perfect evening shoe? Designed by Roger Vivier for Dior, Paris, 1954. Description here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O138244...
Black silk satin evening pump with a tulle rosette on the toe and high stiletto heel. Long squared-off pointed toe, V&A
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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Ellen M. Austen, 1915
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EVENT: 'Accommodating the Victorian & Edwardian Working Woman' by Emily Gee, author of Hostel, House and Chambers. 📍 St Mary Abbots Church, London 🗓️ Wednesday 7th October, 7PM - 8:30PM 🎫 Tickets: bit.ly/Gee-event-VS @thevicsoc.bsky.social @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social @modbritstud.bsky.social
A black and white image of a chamber accommodation room, with white text overlaid which reads: 'Accommodating the Victorian & Edwardian Working Woman 
by Emily Gee'.
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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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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Black silk and wool mourning dress, c. 1900-1910. Silk covered with thin black wool. Black crepe-de-chine at the neck. Interesting pattern of chevron tucking on skirt and bodice. sokisamlingar.sormlandsmuseum.se
Black mourning dress with flared skirt trimmed with a chevron pattern of tucks. The chevron pattern is echoed on the bodice. High neck and long sleeves.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Léopoldine Hugo (1824 – 1843) was the eldest daughter of novelist, poet, and dramatist Victor Hugo and his wife, Adèle Foucher. #CelebratingWomen
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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mitts botfrens.com/collections/223/conten…
Gift of Miss Valerie J. Dreyfus, 1941
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And breathe…An ethereal, diaphanous dress from 1820-24 is this week’s Friday treat. Via the V&A here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129100...
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And breathe…An ethereal, diaphanous dress from 1820-24 is this week’s Friday treat. Via the V&A here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129100...
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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
French painter and model Suzanne Valadon was born #OnThisDay in 1865. She was painted by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 1885 wearing a fashionable purple dress in a similar style to this silk bustle example from the Albany Institute. Painting from Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. #fashionhistory
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chertseymuseum.bsky.social @chertseymuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#FridayFrocks – Autumn sees our attention turn to #Waistlines. Here we have a silk brocade bodice dating from the 1780s. The bodice is heavily boned so that it forms a fashionable cone shape.
Front and back views of an 1780s silk brocade bodice displayed on a mannequin. The cream-coloured bodice features long sleeves, a square neckline, fine vertical stripes, and small brocaded floral motifs. The front is fitted with decorative green ribbon lacing, while the back has a pointed, tailored shape. Caption below reads: “Silk brocade bodice, c.1780s © The Olive Matthews Collection, Chertsey Museum. Photos by John Chase Photography.”
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There is, as ever, immense skill in apparent simplicity. Balenciaga’s 1966 ensemble consists of this buttoned tunic cut in one piece on the bias so that it revolves from shoulder to hip. Lovely, yes please #PalaisGalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Tunic detail of Balenciaga’s mid 1960s bias cut two piece ensemble in bright pink. It is sleeveless with buttons running diagonally from the v neck to the opposite hipFull length view of the two piece shift style Balenciaga daywear with sleeveless v neck tunic and straight calf length skirt
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mourning but make it fashion. Whilst this c1820 gown is indicative of loss written into the very black of its seams, it also demonstrates an awareness of prevailing style with puff sleeves & gauzy layers. Is this a grieving wife or a Merry Widow? @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A long black silk dress with short puff sleeves and long black gauze over sleeves. It has a high waist with self coloured decoration
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imagine how people’s lives could be enriched with more in office like Mayor Mamdani 💯
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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What to wear for #NationalPunctuationDay Patrick Kelly's Question Mark dress, 1985, in wool and rhinestones. FIDM Museum Exclamation point gloves, Bonnie Cashin, 1974, Metropolitan Museum Collection. Moschino Question Mark pumps, former Poshmark listing
Short black dress on mannequin with long sleeves, mock turtleneck, with three large rhinestone question marks.Blue knit glove with decorative red stitching and an appliqued red leather question mark. Red pumps with a silvery lining and a Moschino label. The backs of the heels have a black question mark printed on them.
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🍁 Afternoon dress, French, cotton, ca 1855. Via The Met here: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fall is when you feed each other grapes
François Boucher, An Autumn Pastoral (detail), 1749, Oil on canvas, Wallace Collection, London. A shoeless shepherd with a basket of grapes feeds them to a girl who leans on him. Beside her lies a little dog
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🍁 Afternoon dress, French, cotton, ca 1855. Via The Met here: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I often think of this as a sunrise dress, its fiery layers of tulle replicating the striations of early morning. Today I was treated to this display on my stroll through the lanes, mirroring the Callot Soeurs colours of c1910 #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A full length image of a c1910 evening gown made from layers of pink and orange tulle and with gold embellishment at the bodice and hem. It has a darker pink stoleA photograph that I took this morning of a fiery sunrise in shades of yellow orange pink and purple with the silhouettes of trees in the foreground
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Watching Trump at the UN. Excruciating 😣 #c4news
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A 7,400-year-old female figure with red curls! Throughout human history, red has held a special significance; it was already being used in Neanderthal burials. Red was readily accessible, for instance, in the form of red earth, such as red ochre or red bole. The figurines dates...🧵1/2 📷 me
A small clay figurine depicting a stylized female figure with a large, roughly modeled head and simplified body. The face has prominent brows and eyes, and a protruding nose, while the lower body is fragmented and incomplete. She has curly hair with traces of red pigment. The weathered, dark brown-black surface shows cracks. The object is displayed against a black background.
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Printed leaves become appliquéd leaves the higher up the dress they travel. Blurry pastels become more defined and the edges frame the shoulders, finished with a pale pink bow. Pierre Balmain, 1954 #V_and_A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Back view of a form fitting pastel shaded silk strapless dress with a pale pink sash and appliquéd bodiceFront view of the pastel leaf Balmain dress with the pink silk sash which covers one side of the bodice. It has a draped ruched front to the skirtPartial view of Balmain’s mid 1950s pastel coloured leaf dress which shows part of the silk bow and the way that the leaves were appliquéd around the bodiceThe original sketch of the Balmain dress shown here in a different colour way with a pink stole
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Much as we love bookshops, they need more than love to keep going. A bookshop can be the centre of a whole community. Bookshops support authors; organize events. A thriving bookshop teaches the next generation that literacy matters. So don't just love your bookshop: actually buy books there.
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The c19th aesthetic obsession with all things ferny, scrolls across the brocade of this c1887 gown, the green panels interspersed with dashes of greenery around the bodice and layer of skirt. Some fancy smocking completes the decorative display #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A view of the bodice of a late 1880a dark sage green bustle dress showing its high plain collar, smocked central section and then white silk brocade with a green fern design creating a lapel effectFull length view of the dark sage green silk bustle dress which shows how the white fern decorated brocade sections break up the green at the bodice, waist, cuffs and underskirt
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🍂 Echoes of the past. Jacket designed by Elsa Schiaparelli, winter 1934 collection. More here via The Met: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🍂 Echoes of the past. Jacket designed by Elsa Schiaparelli, winter 1934 collection. More here via The Met: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This feels like a quietly appropriate approach to autumn dressing, a loose early #1880s ‘at home’ kind of gown in reddy brown challis, a lightweight blend of wool & silk. The Watteau pleat at the back & panels at the front are embroidered with pale forget-me-nots #newcanaanmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Partial view of the back of a reddish brown loose gown of challis. It has a high collar, slightly puffed sleeves at the shoulder and a broad pleat centre back embroidered with small pale flowersFull length view of the red brown early 1880s at home gown. Long sleeved, with high collar. The floral embroidery continues down centre panels and around the collar, cuffs and pockets
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Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A Victorian ‘lady detective’ once shed her crinoline mid-chase, and kept right on going. Meet the scandalous 1860s pulp novels — sold for sixpence at railway stations — that invented the female sleuth, decades before Miss Marple ever picked up her knitting. lucyworsley.substack.com/p/the-first-...
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The Scandalous Victorian Novels That Invented the Female Detective
Long before Miss Marple, two 1860s heroines were solving crimes, dropping their crinolines, and shocking readers for sixpence a go
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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the executors of the estate of Clara M. Blum in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blum, 1966
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English fine embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph of thd upper half of a sitting white woman and three more images of her embroidery depicting flowering plants
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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Honestly, not quite enough pearls
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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How Horrockses put Lancashire on the fashion map
80 years after the iconic label was born, a landmark exhibition is bringing its remarkable story home
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Ellie Thomas @elliethomas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gorgeous combination of the current fashion (of the 1820s) with vintage fabric. Stunning!
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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Silk gauze mourning fan with an ebony monture and floral lace appliqués and edging, indicating less-than-deep mourning. It is painted with a coronet. c. 1880-1890. n2t.net/ark:/38652/R...
Black silk fan appliqued with floral lace, with floral lace edging. Black sticks and guards. Painted with a silvery-grey coronet.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Glad our MPs have enough time on their hands for such important matters. Perhaps they could also scrutinize UK record at international croquet events; why haircuts are so expensive; and how to improve the annoying music when you’re on hold for a phone call. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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UK to answer for its ‘dismal record’ in Eurovision before committee of MPs
Digital, culture, media and sport committee expected to hear evidence from BBC bosses and music industry experts
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s Friday..you deserve a treat 💙 This evening dress with matching spencer, made ca 1820, comes via The V&A: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O361666...
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An injection of yellow like a fizz of sherbet fountain to cheer the end of the week with this #1750s striped robe à la française. Bright and breezy and sunny perfect for welcoming the weekend #coraginsburg #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Back view of a bright yellow and white striped silk satin gown with deep central Watteau pleat and fitted elbow length sleeves
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Butternut and Sweet Potato Curry is #RecipeOfTheDay! It tastes every bit as vibrant as it looks and is – incidentally – vegan, should that be of interest (or even if it isn’t). www.nigella.com/recipes/butt...
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Butternut and Sweet Potato Curry
This is a rambunctiously vibrant curry, both to look at and eat. It is rich, sweet and hearty, with tomatoes providing a balancing acidity and the curry paste bringing uncompromising fire. I like the ...
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chertseymuseum.bsky.social @chertseymuseum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#FridayFrocks - This gown, c.1953–57, is by Lanvin-Catillo. The chiffon bodice, with #Pleating, is lined with pink satin and boned. See it in our brand-new fashion exhibition: ‘Mid-20th Century Girls’ which opens tomorrow. To plan your visit go to www.chertseymuseum.org
Two-image montage of a Lanvin-Castillo evening dress from about 1953-1957 displayed on a mannequin against a plain light background. The full-length view shows a delicate blush-pink dress with a ruched chiffon bodice crossing over at the neckline to create a soft V-shape. The dress has short sleeves, a wide satin waistband tied into a bow at the front waist, and a flowing knee-length skirt made from layers of lightweight chiffon. The accompanying detail image focuses on the bodice and waist, showing the fine pleating of the chiffon, the lustrous satin sash, and the decorative bow. The overall design combines soft drapery and elegant mid-1950s eveningwear styling.
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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Gift of Mrs. John G. Rolph, in memory of her sister, Helen L. Beloussoff, 1961
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Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I love this artist’s work. Just discovered she was a nurse in #WW1 richardawarren.wordpress.com/2020/07/25/o...
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is an eye wateringly bedazzling pattern, a weave of dizzying drama in stylised leafy motifs that speaks to the techniques of late c19th textile production. No quiet, demure-ness here but rather boldness of design in late #1890s fashion. Sold via #KerryTaylorAuct #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Bodice detail of a late 1890s black and white patterned dress. The white motifs are like the dashes of an artist drawing leaf shapes across the black. It has a lace jabot at the neckAlternatively detail view of the late 1890s black and white dress that shows part of the skirt and the lace trimmed cuff of the long sleeveFull length view of the black and white late 1890s dress showing the effect of the bold design on the fashionable silhouette
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Second visit to the Museo Archeologico (Napoli) because it’s fabulous. L ‘Vignetta’ fresco, basket with spindle & wool skeins, Ariadne’s Villa, 10-45 AD. R Small bowls with paint pigments, Pompeii.
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