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Countdown to Christmas 🎁 From 1st-24th December, feast on daily festive posts. Stay tuned.
‘Fête Joyeuse’ evening dress designed by Christian Dior, crimson silk organza, Paris, 1955. Via The V&A, description & more images here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O117674...
‘Fête Joyeuse’ evening dress designed by Christian Dior, crimson silk organza, Paris, 1955. Via The V&A, description & more images here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O117674...
It was about time that I got to the Musée Carnavalet for Paris history. The permanent exhibition is free, well worth a visit.
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It was about time that I got to the Musée Carnavalet for Paris history. The permanent exhibition is free, well worth a visit.
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Well this is exciting! Book News klaxon & I am so thrilled to share this beautiful cover of my new book Dressing the Queen: 200 Years of Makers & Monarchy which will be published in April 2026. A huge thank you to #ChattoBooks for this most lovely volume. #aitkenalexander
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Well this is exciting! Book News klaxon & I am so thrilled to share this beautiful cover of my new book Dressing the Queen: 200 Years of Makers & Monarchy which will be published in April 2026. A huge thank you to #ChattoBooks for this most lovely volume. #aitkenalexander
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Day 3 - Trudging through the rain, bumping shoulders with other harried Christmas shoppers, Patricia stops suddenly in front of a glowing window. As raindrops blur the long shopping list in her hand, she opens her fingers and lets it drift soggily into a puddle 1/2
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Day 3 - Trudging through the rain, bumping shoulders with other harried Christmas shoppers, Patricia stops suddenly in front of a glowing window. As raindrops blur the long shopping list in her hand, she opens her fingers and lets it drift soggily into a puddle 1/2
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I'll be closing my jewellery order book tmrw at 10pm-
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I'll be closing my jewellery order book tmrw at 10pm-
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
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The art of letter-writing in the 18th century. 🤗
The sender - gossiping about the marriage of Max Joseph and Auguste Wilhelmine - painted the figure of the bride wearing an dress from the 1780ies in the top corner of his letter.
The sender - gossiping about the marriage of Max Joseph and Auguste Wilhelmine - painted the figure of the bride wearing an dress from the 1780ies in the top corner of his letter.
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The art of letter-writing in the 18th century. 🤗
The sender - gossiping about the marriage of Max Joseph and Auguste Wilhelmine - painted the figure of the bride wearing an dress from the 1780ies in the top corner of his letter.
The sender - gossiping about the marriage of Max Joseph and Auguste Wilhelmine - painted the figure of the bride wearing an dress from the 1780ies in the top corner of his letter.
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Le 3 décembre 1902, naissait Marie Magnien qui a laissé derrière elle une trace modeste de son passage sur terre, sous la forme du cahier de couture dans lequel elle a mis tant de laborieux efforts.
ouvragesdedames.canalblog.com/archives/201...
#généalogie #genealogy
ouvragesdedames.canalblog.com/archives/201...
#généalogie #genealogy
December 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Le 3 décembre 1902, naissait Marie Magnien qui a laissé derrière elle une trace modeste de son passage sur terre, sous la forme du cahier de couture dans lequel elle a mis tant de laborieux efforts.
ouvragesdedames.canalblog.com/archives/201...
#généalogie #genealogy
ouvragesdedames.canalblog.com/archives/201...
#généalogie #genealogy
Feeling privileged to make it to the Paul Poiret exhibition at MAD Paris. A visual treat, it’s popular with all ages. Great to see students sketching & even a group of little children enjoying! More to follow.
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Feeling privileged to make it to the Paul Poiret exhibition at MAD Paris. A visual treat, it’s popular with all ages. Great to see students sketching & even a group of little children enjoying! More to follow.
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Congratulations once again to this year's brilliant shortlisted authors: Eleanor Barraclough, @kieranconnell.bsky.social, @victoriandetective.bsky.social, Helen Castor, Hannah Durkin and Andrew Fleming.
December 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Congratulations once again to this year's brilliant shortlisted authors: Eleanor Barraclough, @kieranconnell.bsky.social, @victoriandetective.bsky.social, Helen Castor, Hannah Durkin and Andrew Fleming.
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Keep wrapping! 🎁
Dress by Madame Grès, France, 1954. Via LACMA here: collections.lacma.org/node/2290522
Dress by Madame Grès, France, 1954. Via LACMA here: collections.lacma.org/node/2290522
December 18, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Keep wrapping! 🎁
Dress by Madame Grès, France, 1954. Via LACMA here: collections.lacma.org/node/2290522
Dress by Madame Grès, France, 1954. Via LACMA here: collections.lacma.org/node/2290522
‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens, published December 1843 1/2
🎻 Printed silk satin dress, trimmed with velvet ribbon, in fashionable tartan pattern, ca 1845. Hand-sewn, maker unknown. V&A
#Advent
🎻 Printed silk satin dress, trimmed with velvet ribbon, in fashionable tartan pattern, ca 1845. Hand-sewn, maker unknown. V&A
#Advent
December 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Dark red glacé leather ankle boots with matching fake fur trim. Charles Jourdan, France. c1975. Via The Museum at FIT.
December 10, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Dark red glacé leather ankle boots with matching fake fur trim. Charles Jourdan, France. c1975. Via The Museum at FIT.
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🎶 ‘Just hear those sleigh bells jingling…Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you’ 🎶
#advent #christmas #snow #sleigh
#advent #christmas #snow #sleigh
Open sleigh.
🌨 ‘Snow scene Through a Winter Window’ by Henry Alexander, c1880
🌨 Cloak with jet, American or European, 1850s, MET
🌨 Carriage boots, brown fur with white woollen lining, 1897, MCR Art
#Advent
🌨 ‘Snow scene Through a Winter Window’ by Henry Alexander, c1880
🌨 Cloak with jet, American or European, 1850s, MET
🌨 Carriage boots, brown fur with white woollen lining, 1897, MCR Art
#Advent
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🎶 ‘Just hear those sleigh bells jingling…Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you’ 🎶
#advent #christmas #snow #sleigh
#advent #christmas #snow #sleigh
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December’s berried gifts.
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
December’s berried gifts.
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Day 2 - An ominous silence greets Margot as she bursts forth into the Christmas party ballroom with gusto and a flourish of her fan. She did think that perhaps the ship was, well, a bit much but her heart sinks as she surveys the scene before her 1/2
December 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Day 2 - An ominous silence greets Margot as she bursts forth into the Christmas party ballroom with gusto and a flourish of her fan. She did think that perhaps the ship was, well, a bit much but her heart sinks as she surveys the scene before her 1/2
🎶 ‘Just hear those sleigh bells jingling…Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you’ 🎶
#advent #christmas #snow #sleigh
#advent #christmas #snow #sleigh
Open sleigh.
🌨 ‘Snow scene Through a Winter Window’ by Henry Alexander, c1880
🌨 Cloak with jet, American or European, 1850s, MET
🌨 Carriage boots, brown fur with white woollen lining, 1897, MCR Art
#Advent
🌨 ‘Snow scene Through a Winter Window’ by Henry Alexander, c1880
🌨 Cloak with jet, American or European, 1850s, MET
🌨 Carriage boots, brown fur with white woollen lining, 1897, MCR Art
#Advent
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🎶 ‘Just hear those sleigh bells jingling…Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you’ 🎶
#advent #christmas #snow #sleigh
#advent #christmas #snow #sleigh
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December 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find.
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌
December 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find.
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌
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#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 1: Silver belle! Actress Ann Todd wore "heavy damask material in pure white, with a pattern of silver clouds" to wed Victor Malcolm in London in December 1933, per the Daily Record. Helene Galin designed the gown and train edged in Todd's grandmother's Limerick lace.
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 1: Silver belle! Actress Ann Todd wore "heavy damask material in pure white, with a pattern of silver clouds" to wed Victor Malcolm in London in December 1933, per the Daily Record. Helene Galin designed the gown and train edged in Todd's grandmother's Limerick lace.
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In terms of stunning communal artworks about love and mourning, the AIDS quilt is right up there with the pyramids and the Taj Mahal.
An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In terms of stunning communal artworks about love and mourning, the AIDS quilt is right up there with the pyramids and the Taj Mahal.
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The tree is up! 🎄
Green silk satin evening dress, Charles James, USA, 1954. Background & full description here via The Museum at FIT: fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/2920...
#Advent
Green silk satin evening dress, Charles James, USA, 1954. Background & full description here via The Museum at FIT: fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/2920...
#Advent
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Something that really stuck with me from the fast fashion episode of Rare Earth, and is still cheering me up: sites like Vinted and Ebay are making a significant dint in fast fashion sales, and people are choosing to buy better quality clothes so they can sell them on. Less waste, wins all round 🎉🎉🎉
BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Fashioning the Future
Can we rethink how we dress to be less impactful on the planet?
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Something that really stuck with me from the fast fashion episode of Rare Earth, and is still cheering me up: sites like Vinted and Ebay are making a significant dint in fast fashion sales, and people are choosing to buy better quality clothes so they can sell them on. Less waste, wins all round 🎉🎉🎉
The tree is up! 🎄
Green silk satin evening dress, Charles James, USA, 1954. Background & full description here via The Museum at FIT: fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/2920...
#Advent
Green silk satin evening dress, Charles James, USA, 1954. Background & full description here via The Museum at FIT: fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/2920...
#Advent
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Day 1 - Madeleine can hear the guffawing of supremely confident men from the other side of the door. She can detect the brittle tones of her mother and the giggle of her sisters. She takes a deep, restorative and bracing breath, steeling herself for what is inevitably to follow 1/2
December 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Day 1 - Madeleine can hear the guffawing of supremely confident men from the other side of the door. She can detect the brittle tones of her mother and the giggle of her sisters. She takes a deep, restorative and bracing breath, steeling herself for what is inevitably to follow 1/2
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🎄 It’s gone completely Christmassy on nigella.com! Come on over for food inspiration and to read my Christmas Witter (aka Season’s Eatings 2025) which brings glad tidings of some new recipes on the site, plus how to enter the annual Christmas Pudding Hunt!
www.nigella.com/latest/seaso...
www.nigella.com/latest/seaso...
December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🎄 It’s gone completely Christmassy on nigella.com! Come on over for food inspiration and to read my Christmas Witter (aka Season’s Eatings 2025) which brings glad tidings of some new recipes on the site, plus how to enter the annual Christmas Pudding Hunt!
www.nigella.com/latest/seaso...
www.nigella.com/latest/seaso...
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Queen Alexandra was born #OnThisDay in 1844. She wore this elegant silk satin evening dress, embellished with pearls and diamantes, as Princess of Wales in c. 1900. The dress was designed by the Paris house of Maison Laferrière and was donated to the V&A collection. #fashionhistory
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Queen Alexandra was born #OnThisDay in 1844. She wore this elegant silk satin evening dress, embellished with pearls and diamantes, as Princess of Wales in c. 1900. The dress was designed by the Paris house of Maison Laferrière and was donated to the V&A collection. #fashionhistory