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The Life of Eva Perón: First Lady, Activist, Actress and Philanthropist is out now.
pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Life…
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The classic film musical Grease was released in America #OnThisDay in 1978. Olivia Newton-John wore this vintage 1950s pair of black stretch satin, high-waist trousers with attached belt as Sandy in the final scene of the film. Sold by @JuliensAuctions. #film #costume
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American fashion and portrait photographer Irving Penn was born #OnThisDay in 1917. He photographed model Anne St. Marie wearing a James Galanos silk paisley print evening dress with bead embroidery and gilt thread for the October 1957 edition of Vogue. @metmuseum #fashionhistory
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Polish-American undergarment designer and lingerie company owner Olga Erteszek was born #OnThisDay in 1916. She designed this blue nightgown with sheer lace details on the bodice in the 1970s. Sold via @dressvintage. #fashionhistory
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American fashion photographer and painter Lillian Bassman was born #OnThisDay in 1917. She photographed model Barbara Mullen at The Ritz in 1949, modelling a Dior black silk faille dress and black wool hat. Hat from the @metmuseum collection. #photography #fashionhistory
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Eva Perón organised a dinner at the Hotel Ritz on her final night in Madrid on her Rainbow Tour #OnThisDay in 1947. She wore a form-fitting strapless gold lamé gown adorned with Van Cleef & Arpels diamonds, and accessorised with a matching gold lamé scarf over her hair. #evita
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Catherine, Princess of Wales, attended Trooping the Colour #OnThisDay in 2025. She wore the "Bria" aquamarine wool coatdress with ivory contrast lapels and cuffs designed by Catherine Walker, accessorised with an asymmetric wide-brim Juliette Botterill hat. #fashionhistory
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Martha Washington, the inaugural First Lady of the United States, was born #OnThisDay in 1731. She wore this custom-made pair of purple satin shoes, embellished with metallic sequins, lace, and braid, on her wedding day in 1759. @MountVernon collection. #FirstLady #fashionhistory
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Fashion designer Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, who worked under the professional name Lucile, was born #OnThisDay in 1863. She designed this "Happiness" silk taffeta and tulle dress with lace, appliqué, ribbons, and silk flowers in Autumn 1916. Kyoto Costume Institute. #fashionhistory
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Fashion designer Alber Elbaz, who was the creative director of Lanvin from 2001-2015, was born #OnThisDay in 1961. He designed this navy blue silk evening dress with wide pleated straps for Lanvin's Ready-to-Wear S/S 2008 collection. Sold by @bonhams1793. #fashionhistory
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British fashion designer Sir Norman Hartnell was born #OnThisDay in 1901. He designed this 1960s couture pink chiffon evening dress, heavily embellished with floral sequins and seed beads, with a matching satin stole for the Duchessa di Fragnito. @KerryTaylorAuct #fashionhistory
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This week's #ThirtiesThursday garment is this striking black silk taffeta evening dress designed by Madeleine Vionnet in 1936. The skirt features multiple tiered flounces that extend around the sides and back of the dress into a demi-train. @museumatFIT collection #fashionhistory
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Victoria Haddock retweeted
Jun 10
Can too much purple play with your mind? 👀
In the latest episode of our podcast, Stories in Colour, cultural historian Kassia St Clair joins Beks to uncover the story of mauveine – the world’s first synthetic aniline dye that reshaped Victorian fashion.
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts: bit.ly/3H5LdC4
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Victoria Haddock retweeted
The under appreciated art of passementerie is one of the crafts in Dressing the Queen. I found out about Louisa Marriott who worked from her lodgings in London’s East End working on dress trimmings which might eventually be incorporated into a dress such as this, c1880 @metmuseum
ALT A picture of a c1880 evening dress in pale tulle and silk alongside a close up of some of the gold coloured trimmings used to decorate the dress, a gold work tassel and limes of gold braid
ALT A portrait by the artist Karl Meunier which shows a passementerie workshop with the worker silhouetted against the window
ALT A photograph of a pile of my books, Dressing the Queen, in which I talk about a whole host of makers contributing to Royal wardrobes past
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Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, Queen of the Belgians, was born #OnThisDay in 1928. For her marriage to King Baudouin in December 1960, she a Balenciaga white silk and tulle gown, trimmed with ermine around the neckline, waist and 6 metre train. @museobalenciaga #fashionhistory
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Argentine First Lady Eva Perón attended an evening celebrating Spanish folklore in Madrid's Plaza Mayor #OnThisDay in 1947. She was gifted custom-made traditional costumes from each of Spain's fifty provinces, that totalled more than 800 individual items. @MuseoLarreta #evita
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American actress and singer Judy Garland was born #OnThisDay in 1922. She wore this Helen Rose designed two-piece period skirt suit of light blue wool, embellished with a white appliqué motif, as Susan Bradley in The Harvey Girls (1946). Sold via @ChristiesInc. #film #costume
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This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this block-printed satin dress in creams, blues and red, made for Liberty & Co. in 1928. It was worn by Marian Hazel Lasenby with a blue woollen coat for her 1928 wedding to the potter William Moorcroft. @V_and_A collection. #fashionhistory
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Fashion designer Ossie Clark was born #OnThisDay in 1942. With his then wife Celia Birtwell, he designed this printed muslin dress with a triangular opening to the bodice and sprigs of red posies. Birtwell wore it in a 1972 David Hockney sketch. @KerryTaylorAuct #fashionhistory
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