Cassidy Percoco
@mimicofmodes.com
Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)
Links to my blog, newsletter, and Etsy shop: https://cassidypercoco.carrd.co/
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Cassidy Percoco
@mimicofmodes.com
· Nov 13
A thread for my threads!
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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New in the shop: a graded version of one of the spencer patterns from Regency Women's Dress! Original is in the Old Sturbridge Village collection. www.etsy.com/listing/4411... 🗃️🪡 #sewing
www.etsy.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
New in the shop: a graded version of one of the spencer patterns from Regency Women's Dress! Original is in the Old Sturbridge Village collection. www.etsy.com/listing/4411... 🗃️🪡 #sewing
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Like, you could write an entire book length case study in "ways Roblox completely fails at Trust and Safety". I advise every parent I know to get their kids the fuck off Roblox, or at the very least, directly monitor who's contacting them and what they're playing *extremely* closely.
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Like, you could write an entire book length case study in "ways Roblox completely fails at Trust and Safety". I advise every parent I know to get their kids the fuck off Roblox, or at the very least, directly monitor who's contacting them and what they're playing *extremely* closely.
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Looks like the article has been updated to suggest maybe they misread the policy.
I see people complaining that this also disabled their spam filters, though I still see new messages showing up in spam so it's still working fine for me after disabling things.
I see people complaining that this also disabled their spam filters, though I still see new messages showing up in spam so it's still working fine for me after disabling things.
[Correction] Gmail can read your emails and attachments to power "smart features"
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Looks like the article has been updated to suggest maybe they misread the policy.
I see people complaining that this also disabled their spam filters, though I still see new messages showing up in spam so it's still working fine for me after disabling things.
I see people complaining that this also disabled their spam filters, though I still see new messages showing up in spam so it's still working fine for me after disabling things.
That guy right there.
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
That guy right there.
A combination of 1) participating in the Adirondack Community College archaeological field school in Fort Edward and eventually deciding that maybe instead of doing archaeology, I would rather work with artifacts *after* they were taken out of the ground, and ...
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A combination of 1) participating in the Adirondack Community College archaeological field school in Fort Edward and eventually deciding that maybe instead of doing archaeology, I would rather work with artifacts *after* they were taken out of the ground, and ...
Update on Dandies & Dandyzettes: hardcover test! www.kickstarter.com/projects/204...
Update 32: Hardcover! · Dandies & Dandyzettes
Okay! I've gotten back the test copy of the hardcover, and I'm very pleased.Initially, my plan was to use this cover design for both hardcover and paperback, but I kind of like the idea of doing the p...
www.kickstarter.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Update on Dandies & Dandyzettes: hardcover test! www.kickstarter.com/projects/204...
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Nearly time for the first of the winter online talks. Happening this coming Tuesday...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Nearly time for the first of the winter online talks. Happening this coming Tuesday...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...
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The base of a 2,000 year old, Late Iron Age Durotrigian style Black Burnished Ware bowl from Winterborne Kingston #Dorset
A series of squiggles were scored into the fabric prior to firing - decoration, doodle or pot-makers mark?
📷 during cleaning in June 2013
#FindsFriday
A series of squiggles were scored into the fabric prior to firing - decoration, doodle or pot-makers mark?
📷 during cleaning in June 2013
#FindsFriday
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The base of a 2,000 year old, Late Iron Age Durotrigian style Black Burnished Ware bowl from Winterborne Kingston #Dorset
A series of squiggles were scored into the fabric prior to firing - decoration, doodle or pot-makers mark?
📷 during cleaning in June 2013
#FindsFriday
A series of squiggles were scored into the fabric prior to firing - decoration, doodle or pot-makers mark?
📷 during cleaning in June 2013
#FindsFriday
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#VendrediLecture . So proud and happy to have been part of this wonderful book. Many thanks to My and Johanna.
November 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
#VendrediLecture . So proud and happy to have been part of this wonderful book. Many thanks to My and Johanna.
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It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
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A new blog post! Looking at an 1864 fashion plate and its description in detail. Eighteenth-century references abound. mimicofmodes.com/2025/11/19/l... #DressHistory #19thc
La Mode Illustrée, April 1864
This plate, taken from La Mode Illustrée in April of 1864, shows four “novelties” available at the Magasins du Louvre in Paris.
mimicofmodes.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A new blog post! Looking at an 1864 fashion plate and its description in detail. Eighteenth-century references abound. mimicofmodes.com/2025/11/19/l... #DressHistory #19thc
A new blog post! Looking at an 1864 fashion plate and its description in detail. Eighteenth-century references abound. mimicofmodes.com/2025/11/19/l... #DressHistory #19thc
La Mode Illustrée, April 1864
This plate, taken from La Mode Illustrée in April of 1864, shows four “novelties” available at the Magasins du Louvre in Paris.
mimicofmodes.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A new blog post! Looking at an 1864 fashion plate and its description in detail. Eighteenth-century references abound. mimicofmodes.com/2025/11/19/l... #DressHistory #19thc
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📣Out now on #firstview!
Marlo Avidon (@marloavidon.bsky.social) on 'The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England'
#Fashion #Polemic #Moral #Style 17thc 🗃️👗🎩
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Marlo Avidon (@marloavidon.bsky.social) on 'The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England'
#Fashion #Polemic #Moral #Style 17thc 🗃️👗🎩
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
📣Out now on #firstview!
Marlo Avidon (@marloavidon.bsky.social) on 'The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England'
#Fashion #Polemic #Moral #Style 17thc 🗃️👗🎩
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Marlo Avidon (@marloavidon.bsky.social) on 'The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England'
#Fashion #Polemic #Moral #Style 17thc 🗃️👗🎩
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all who wander are lost.
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Not all who wander are lost.
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June 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all who wander are lost.
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Port 22 no route to host.
Not all who wander are lost.
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Port 22 no route to host.
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Six simple tips to send your (corn syrup-free) pecan pie game into the stratosphere -- and yes, one of them is how to add chocolate, because I know us. Just-good-enough pecan pie would never cut it around here.
smittenkitchen.com/2015/11/peca...
smittenkitchen.com/2015/11/peca...
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Six simple tips to send your (corn syrup-free) pecan pie game into the stratosphere -- and yes, one of them is how to add chocolate, because I know us. Just-good-enough pecan pie would never cut it around here.
smittenkitchen.com/2015/11/peca...
smittenkitchen.com/2015/11/peca...
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For #tilesontuesday an optical illusion of perspective on the floor of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. OPA = Opera del Duomo, founded in 1296 in Fl. to oversee the construction of the new Cathedral & its bell tower.
🗃️ #arthistory #art #medievalsky #renaissance #skystorians 🏺
🗃️ #arthistory #art #medievalsky #renaissance #skystorians 🏺
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
For #tilesontuesday an optical illusion of perspective on the floor of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. OPA = Opera del Duomo, founded in 1296 in Fl. to oversee the construction of the new Cathedral & its bell tower.
🗃️ #arthistory #art #medievalsky #renaissance #skystorians 🏺
🗃️ #arthistory #art #medievalsky #renaissance #skystorians 🏺
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Look at this excellent handkerchief from 1769 at the V & A museum: a showcase for #18thc practices of remediation. Made to imitate a quodlibet/medley print, a genre that itself aims to simulate, in a trompe l'oeil idiom, a scatter of small printed papers.
Imagine blowing your nose on that!
#scraps
Imagine blowing your nose on that!
#scraps
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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it's cold today in Reading so make sure to put on your big coat or animorph yourself into a pedigree sheep breed with a fleece that any worthwhile catwalk would envy
November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
it's cold today in Reading so make sure to put on your big coat or animorph yourself into a pedigree sheep breed with a fleece that any worthwhile catwalk would envy
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Today's #Museum30 theme is #Makers, so we're celebrating Thomas Preston, the scribe who hand wrote the Litlyngton Missal - a 14th-century service book made for the Abbey's High Altar.
Thomas lived in the monastery while he worked on the missal and later became a monk at the Abbey.
Thomas lived in the monastery while he worked on the missal and later became a monk at the Abbey.
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Upcoming this week: my sole book signing this year!
You are invited to join Ann Aguirre and me at Powells (Cedar Hills Crossing, not the downtown store)
on Friday November 21, 2025 at 7 pm
you can also order signed copies if you can't make it in person.
#booktok
allevents.in/beaverton/po...
You are invited to join Ann Aguirre and me at Powells (Cedar Hills Crossing, not the downtown store)
on Friday November 21, 2025 at 7 pm
you can also order signed copies if you can't make it in person.
#booktok
allevents.in/beaverton/po...
Powells Presents: Kate Elliott in Conversation With Ann Aguirre
Find tickets & information for Powells Presents: Kate Elliott in Conversation With Ann Aguirre. happening at Powells Books, Inc. (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing), Beaverton, OR on Fri, 21 Nov, ...
allevents.in
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Upcoming this week: my sole book signing this year!
You are invited to join Ann Aguirre and me at Powells (Cedar Hills Crossing, not the downtown store)
on Friday November 21, 2025 at 7 pm
you can also order signed copies if you can't make it in person.
#booktok
allevents.in/beaverton/po...
You are invited to join Ann Aguirre and me at Powells (Cedar Hills Crossing, not the downtown store)
on Friday November 21, 2025 at 7 pm
you can also order signed copies if you can't make it in person.
#booktok
allevents.in/beaverton/po...
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Did an Irish 'nation' ever exist? Who were the Scotti? The Féni? The Gaels? Dr Patrick Wadden, DCU & Belmont Abbey College, provides a masterclass on the written sources and how Irish authors conceptualised Irishness in the early Middle Ages. @maynoothuniversity.ie open.spotify.com/episode/40rP...
Irish national identity in the early Middle Ages with Dr Patrick Wadden
open.spotify.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Did an Irish 'nation' ever exist? Who were the Scotti? The Féni? The Gaels? Dr Patrick Wadden, DCU & Belmont Abbey College, provides a masterclass on the written sources and how Irish authors conceptualised Irishness in the early Middle Ages. @maynoothuniversity.ie open.spotify.com/episode/40rP...
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New podcast episode out! Have a listen & please send us your tabletop questions
It's the second episode of But Why Vikings? the ludological agony aunt column for your ears. @ava.foxfort.net @timclare.bsky.social and I answer all sorts of questions on anything tabletop. Check it out, share, and rate!
But Why Vikings? - Podcast - Apple Podcasts share.google/ZdTRo4IBD3or...
But Why Vikings? - Podcast - Apple Podcasts share.google/ZdTRo4IBD3or...
But Why Vikings?
Games Podcast · Updated fortnightly · Any unanswered questions at your gaming table? Ava Foxfort, Tim Clare, and Iain McAllister mull over tabletop conudrums: from etiquette at the table to recommenda...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
New podcast episode out! Have a listen & please send us your tabletop questions
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slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes