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This week's #ThirtiesThursday garment is this c. 1933-37 Robert Piguet asymmetrical, bias cut evening gown of copper coloured satin. The gown has one large pleated, puffed sleeve and a transparent shoulder strap from which a tulle panel is attached
@HillwoodMuseum #fashionhistory
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I have always loved the shifting boundaries of this 1935 #Vionnet dress. The sleek black column beneath is overlaid with a sheer, ghostly silhouette, both hiding and revealing @madparisfr #fashionhistory
ALT A long black dress consisting of a narrow underdress and a sheer black voluminous overdress with full skirt and billowing sleeves
What a completely happy-making experience it is to see #TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest @NationalTheatre - a joyous, technicolour riposte to Jan! Loved the modern tweaks that served to show how fresh+fantastically funny the play is. #NcutiGatwa, #HughSkinner + #SharonDClarke superb!
ALT Theatre programme for The Importance of Being Earnest at The National Theatre
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Apart from the train, this gown is one single draped panel of satin; it's a theatrical costume that was created by the #frockingfabulous #CharlesJames in 1935... but it's timeless! #Fashionhistory via The Met.
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Lady Peter's Whimsy ⭐️ retweeted
#Frockingfabulous New Year #sparklenshimmer special!: A touch of sunny sparkle to brighten up a grey January! C.1925-28, via Cincinnati Art Museum. #fashionhistory
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#FrockingFabulous #AdventCalenDior #16: Drama llamas assemble… this is maximum glam! #Fashionhistory by Dior, 1947 style. Via the Royal Ontario Museum.
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The palest column of silk jersey was fashioned in two parts by Madame Grès in 1973. She was born on this day in 1903 and would become the queen of the drape, a master of knots and pleats and the flow of fabric, Staatliche Museum, Berlin
ALT Long white two piece dress. The bodice is knotted centre front and draped over one shoulder. Long skirt falls to the floor
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Heidi Alexander’s appointment as transport secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history - great stat from @georgeeaton
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Love the fact that Cary Grant and Quincy Jones (RIP) became really good friends after working together on Walk Don't Run (1966), his last film...
If one person could embody the history of popular music, it might just be the phenomenon that was Q. There will never be another theguardian.com/music/2024/n… #QuincyJones
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This tailcoat was worn by Fred Astaire in Shall We Dance (1937). Made by Anderson and Sheppard Ltd, one of Astaire’s personal favourites, he tested the seams by dancing in front of a shop mirror. #frockingFabulous #fashionhistory via V&A.
I don’t think a day passes without my referencing a sitcom or sketch show, even if I haven’t seen it in decades, even if no one else I know remembers/knows it.
(This thought has been brought to you by my watching a political cock up and thinking “Whadda mistake-a to make-a”).
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Reminiscent of similar ambitions shared by Fortuny, this neo-classical gown c1950 shows the commitment Claire McCardell made to a dress to accommodate different shapes. The pleats offer elasticity & the waist ties are adjustable. She is a goddess in gold nylon @museumatFIT
As if autumn weren’t bad enough without hiking through it…
‘I’d never head out without one’: 10 autumn hiking essentials | Walking | The Guardian theguardian.com/thefilter/20…
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It’s easy to imagine that this pale gold silk jersey gown is actually a piece of classical statuary carved from marble. The deep folds hold the stillness of stone in their beautiful drapery until the wearer walked & the silk swayed. Designed in 1976 by Gnyuki Torimaru @mfaboston
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This week's #ThirtiesThursday garment is this 1937 Charles James designed evening dress of black satin. The elaborate petal-like bodice was the result of months of experiments James undertook pleating wide silk ribbons from the silk-weavers Colcombet. @V_and_A #fashionhistory
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My passage to bed is being rendered considerably more suspenseful by @Lornebalfe’s insistent score for #Sherwood #BBC looping round my head. Toothbrushing has never been so tense. What a first episode from @mrJamesGraham. And what a chocolate box of a cast. 👏👏👏
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Time to catch up on my reads of recent months.
March’s book club read was #CrazyRichAsians by @kevinkwanbooks, a heady romp through the lives of the East Asian super-rich. Sharp-witted observations on family, wealth and colonialism swirl around the romantic comedy at its heart.
ALT Book cover: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
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#L'WrenScott layered on the #Frockingfabulous bling in 2013, and we love to see it. #Fashionhistory of 2013, via Christies.
Listened to #GoodChaps by @KuperSimon, a breezy canter through corruption in UK politics. Best taken as a journalistic long read rather than a comprehensive, original investigation, it’s a valuable digest of a trend almost normalised in the last 20 yrs. Well read by #MarkElstob
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