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Thank you for the link! I didn't realize that was out already!

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Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 17/09/2026

Ellipsus is the best writing platform for a number of reasons, the most important of which is they are vehemently anti-AI, and their Emboss tool can prove you created what you did. And... THEY MADE A SHORT FILM ABOUT IT. Holy cats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iCI...

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ELLIPSUS: EMBOSS (SHORT FILM)

YouTube video by Ellipsus

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When my son was 5 he had a sartorial flair To go to arts delicatessen he wore a midnight blue cape, top hat &monocle As we were leaving an older gent stopped him saying “young man, i like your style” Meant the world to our son that man was Bob Mackie RIP

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Lena Cole @lenacole.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Something I realized recently wrt depictions of corsetry in fiction is that most people are only seeing them on dress forms from a distance. That makes them look like hard, solidly shaped shells that have to be cracked open to be taken off. 🗃️🪡

A white corset on a dress form made to be entirely hidden, so that the corset appears to be floating in the air.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 02/09/2026

Thank you for linking this! I'm really proud of this answer. It's always tempting to go to a tech/econ answer for fashion qs, but it's much more often about culture. Men were dealing with hats in cars for decades, while beatniks in the 1940s/50s who never got in cars left them off.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 02/09/2026

This is actually not true of the broader regency period - in the 1790s, there were fashionable "down" styles, and in the 1800s-1810s, even young girls wore their hair up. The "putting your hair up because you're eligible" thing is specifically Victorian.

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Gary Moloney @garymoloney.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A great thread about the harsh realities of making independent anthologies these days but also a step-by-step guide on how to do it from one of the best to do it.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 31/08/2026

He's probably just scared of the way the food comes out of it. Clyde is VERY skittish.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 30/08/2026

Bonnie adapted immediately to the automatic feeder, but Clyde doesn't like the food it dispenses, food it dispenses that I put into his old bowl, food I scoop him out of the top, or even now food that I scoop him from the original bag. Come on, man! It's the same food!

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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Not only is it @askhistorians.bsky.social's birthday, it's @mimicofmodes.com's new book cover reveal! Look at this beauty! www.routledge.com/Eighteenth-C...

The cover of Eighteenth-Century Women's Dress: Techniques and Patterns By Cassidy Percoco shows a woman's side, hip, and arm. She's wearing a yellow dress covered in flowers of various colors.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 21/08/2026

Excellent find! My thought was that it's 100% lace and not a tiara, so it's good that you found an actual example to compare.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 19/08/2026

Hmm, it's kind of a know-it-when-I-see-it thing. "We forgot we were naming kids and not cats." Lucy and Lacey, Glen and Campbell, something like that.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 19/08/2026

Was looking at a Find A Grave page for the original owner of a pair of shoes I was cataloguing, and saw that in 1840 she had twins and named them Oscar Leverett and Ormond Everett ... Not usually a fan of kooky twin naming but that's pretty cute. 🗃️

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 18/08/2026

Signed up for this one! So you can follow me on it, if you want.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 14/08/2026

When the training video about responsible use of AI is made with AI and has nonsense words on the screen ...

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 12/08/2026

The skirt *length*, though, is something that wouldn't come along until the 1960s. (Sorry, I don't go here, I just happened across the thread from the fashion history tag.) The V&A has a great post on the miniskirt: www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the...

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The miniskirt myth · V&A

Mary Quant has often been credited with 'inventing' the miniskirt. Discover the true story behind the look that defined the 1960s.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Who else spent their childhood cutting out paper dolls? This collection was made by Anne Sanders Wilson for her sister Mary in 1832 & accompanied a morality tale called The History of Miss Wildfire charting the perils of fashion. I still have some of mine, anyone else? #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Four hand drawn paper doll costumes showing different fashionable ensembles from the 1830s

Another set of four hand drawn paper doll costumes with more fashionable ensembles from the 1830s

Four more hand drawn paper doll costumes this time showing the progression of Miss Wildfire losing her status and becoming a lacemaker

A final selection of four hand drawn paper doll costumes showing the evolution of Miss Wildfire from high fashion to Quaker dress

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 12/08/2026

Apply now to join this year’s cohort of the Anti-racist Museums Programme 📥 The programme is now open for applications from museums to join our 2026 cohort. We’re supporting the leadership teams of another six UK museums to progress towards becoming anti-racist organisations.

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Anti-racist Museums Programme - Museums Association

Our cohort of museums working towards becoming anti-racist organisations

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/07/2025

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 10/08/2026

Spent allllllllll of yesterday working on rearranging the patterns for my book into 6" x 9" diagrams (from 8.5" x 11"), so I have to make sure to be properly relaxed and useless today, apart from laundry and groceries.

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 09/08/2026

The Gaulstown Dolmen • Waterford This Neolithic portal tomb known as the Gaulstown Dolmen likely dates to around 3800–3400 BC. It is beautifully set in an atmospheric glade at the foot of a hill known as Cnoc na Cailligh (the Hill of the Witch) #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺 #DiscoverIreland

Gaulstown dolmen - an enormous capstone seemingly floats suspended by tall upright stones, set within a small glade in Waterford Ireland

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 08/08/2026

And then today's. I finished taking inventory, putting the results into the database, and figuring out all of the problems (wrong number on a mount, wrong number in my notes, etc). Can put it to bed!

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 08/08/2026

Short video from yesterday - just a quick look at our cap collection! Plus a few quilted hoods. 🗃️🪡

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 04/08/2026

Or fully starting over, but a) NO and b) it was always a wearable mockup anyway.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 04/08/2026

I found my in-progress early 19thc corset and my 1864 patent corset (now a bit too small), which counts as working on the outfits I need to get done. The first will ... probs work with a larger than ideal lacing gap, the latter will need panels inserted in the sides.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 03/08/2026

My mom taught a macrame class at her library and told me that the students were extremely enthusiastic - it was women who has been aware of it in the 70s but never got into it then. I think you might be on to something.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The entrance canopy on the medieval Jacob's Well, the church hall of Holy Trinity, Micklegate in York is a rare, highly ornate 15th-century wooden projection. It was originally from the demolished Old Wheatsheaf Inn on Davygate. It was added to the Grade I listed building in the early 20th century

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 01/08/2026

Unlike pretty much everyone else, I don't consider the Regency neoclassical at all! 1805-1810 is a transition from neoclassicism to gothic revival in everything but the high waistline.

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Alan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @bows4crows.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Evening dress, Madame Roger, Paris, 1865 Ice cream? This feels like ice cream 🍨, seaside promenades 🏖️, and Summer ☀️. Needs a parasol though. The size of the stripes took me by surprise, but it creates a really lovely effect. #fashionsky #fashionhistory #dresshistory

Museum photo a full length evening dress in silk and satin, coloured in cream and pink vertical stripes (each about 6-8 inches thick).
It has a narrow bodice with lace and ribbon trimmings at the wide scoop neckline. The skirt is extremely large, with structure beneath to expand it a little to the sides and front, and extensively behind. It has a full trail beyond even this, and is paired with a white belt, and white layer that sits atop the back of the skirt (again trimmed with lace).

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

When I was 19, I helped to mount a mourning dress belonging to Queen Victoria. Such was her silhouette that she seemed to emerge like a spectral figure. She forged longstanding relationships with dressmakers, many of whom appear in Dressing the Queen @londonmuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Two curators putting the finishing touches to the mounting of one of Queen Victoria’s late c19th mourning gowns

My book Dressing the Queen spotted in a bookshop

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

COVER REVEAL! I am so excited to share the US cover for Dressing the Queen which will be available in the States and beyond from September 1. Tales of royal fashion but from the perspective of the makers. I hope you enjoy! Thank you so much @pegasusbooks.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A picture of the American edition of my book Dressing the Queen which shows a partial image from a painting of a dressmaker at work

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Rembrandt, Portrait of Saskia in a straw hat, 1633, Silverpoint on vellum, 185 x 107 mm (Staatliche Museen, Berlin). Inscription, added later, reads, "This was drawn after my wife, when she was 21 years old, the third day after we were engaged 8 June 1633."

A sketch of Saskia in a hat smiling at the viewer with an inscription in Dutch

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 30/07/2026

That is soooooo small, but I would agree with Sue that it's wool.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 29/07/2026

Ah, I see where you're coming from! So, you're not exactly wrong, but I think it's more accurate/common to talk about accommodating for fluctuating bodies - the 18th/very early 19thc construction techniques are universal, even for women too old or young to be pregnant, because all bodies change.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 28/07/2026

Do you mean this specific closure technique, with the sashes? The actual opening down the back (or, earlier, in the front) is necessary for anyone to get in and out of the dress.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 28/07/2026

This is actually muslin in the sense of lightweight cotton fabric, not a prototype! And the slit is really just in the back of the bodice - it doesn't go down into the skirt.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 27/07/2026

I did not, as I can't get insurance to pay for it yet. I really do think it's just my pillow or something. Probably.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 27/07/2026

I also love the narrow backs and deep armscyes of the period. The last vestiges of 18th century construction!

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 27/07/2026

One of the things I love about 1800-1810 gowns is the experimental closures. This one, ca. 1807, has two self fabric ties that draw in the back at the high waist without actually being in channels - very simple and casual. hub.catalogit.app/genesee-coun... 🗃️🪡

Dress of white muslin with gathered front bodice panel, full sleeves with drawstrings, and tucks above hem.

A photo of the back of the bodice of the same gown, showing a drawstring at the back of the neck and a muslin bow at the high waist.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 27/07/2026

It's amusing to me how many people are replying to this with stancilposting.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

First, popularizing publication of our @unileiden.bsky.social project 'From 𐤀 to Α'. Co-written by the whole team, we introduce some of the questions surrounding the birth and spread of the early alphabet that the project tackles. Get the whole issue at www.karwansaraypublishers.com/products/anc...

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A revolution in writing: the spread of the alphabet

A paper surveying the spread of alphabetic writing throughout the ancient Mediterranean, the possible genealogy of the various alphabets, and the mechanisms behind and dates of their dispersal.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 27/07/2026

I'm having some back/neck pain that I attribute to my pillows, but I can't help but be nervous because the last time I had back/neck pain that I attributed to my pillows IT TURNED OUT TO BE SHINGLES

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 27/07/2026

When they say "Canadian", they really mean "Canadian", and when they say "hard" they really mean "hard"!

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Borthwick Institute for Archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A long lost monologue by the great Alan Bennett from 'On the Margin' is just one of the many incredible survivals in our Galton and Simpson Archive!

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