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The Asian Feminist @theasianfeminist.bsky.social · 4d

Afghan women lose their 'last hope' as Taliban shut down internet
For women like Fahima, the internet was her last lifeline to the outside world. On Tuesday, that lifeline was cut off when the Taliban imposed a nationwide internet shutdown that is set to last indefinitely.

Afghan women lose their 'last hope' as Taliban shut down internet

For many women, the internet was their last resource. An internet shutdown threatens to end this.

www.bbc.com

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · 5d

💙🪭 #FashionFriday #FanMuseum edition 🪭💙
Representing @costumesociety.org.uk
at a fab event celebrating the 35th anniversary of London's Fan Museum
Wearing preloved Jigsaw prairiedress Through your wardrobe, Rye
Fan M+ Madame Song: Pioneering Art & Fashion in China exhibition

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 11d

During her 1947 Rainbow Tour of Europe, Eva Perón was gifted traditional costumes from each of Spain's 50 provinces. The garments were tailored to her measurements and were accessorised with shawls, petticoats, jewellery, and headdresses - totalling more than 800 items! #Evita #fashionhistory

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · 11d

Then a creative exploration of fashion's dirty secrets- Lacrima an haute couture story linking Paris couture Alencon lacemaking & Mumbai embroidery & the human suffering behind luxury creations a dress & veil for a 2025 Royal wedding Writer/director ⭐ Caroline Guiela Nguyen
youtu.be/09u12jj2zpA?...

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · 11d

A very fashionable Barbican birthday treat with ❤️ Bethan
First to the art gallery for Fashion's Dirty Looks - Desire and Decay in Fashion, reminiscing on Hussein Chalayan, Vivienne Westwood, Ma Ke, Margiela and more experimental fashion designs

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · 12d

💙🎓#FashionFriday #NewSchoolYear edition 🎓💙 #flashbackfriday 1st year anniversary @ Ravensbourne University what a year! In Blue/White Ikat coat obi & skirt 2ndhand blouse socks @ VIM&VIGR ankleboots @ meher kakalia, upcycled sari scarf #FoundInOxfam @oxfamgb.bsky.social
Snoopy watch #AcademicLife

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · 14d

❤️🎂❤️ Happy happy 85th birthday daddy!! ❤️🎂❤️

♥️ There's much to admire in a level of wit and grit that took him from very humble beginnings in West Wales to globe-trotting as a troubleshooter for the Treasury and retirement spent in charity work and civic duty & still as sharp as a pin ❤️🥂🎊

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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 16d

🗝️ Digital Conference Bag
• 30% discount (+ free shipping to UK) Yale Books, Yale University Press on 4 of their publications, incl @fourredshoes.bsky.social
A Guide to Regency Dress
• Special Georgian themed digital edition of Costume
🎟️ costumesociety.org.uk/conference

#costumesociety #cossoc25

Mrs Martha Nichols by T. Towne, c 1780. Courtesy Leicestershir

Guide to Regency Dress - From Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins by Hilary Davidson. Courtesy Yale Books and Yale University Press

Artistic Dress at Liberty & Co' by Anna Buruma. Courtesy Yale Books and Yale University Press

The Costume House - The Inside Story of Cosprop from Room with a View to Game of Thrones by Keith Lodwick. Courtesy Yale Books and Yale University Press

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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 16d

📢 Session 4 of the Society’s Conference ‘In the Shadow of the Georgians’ 29/10/25 7-9pm UK time with Jennifer Parker, Virginia Hill & Carter King
Details & tickets costumesociety.org.uk/conference

Jennifer Parker: Reimagining Rococo: The revival of Georgian styles in the Lolita fashion subculture as performative protest (A woman in Lolita fashion searching for a suitable photography location. Photo by Yanhao Fang on Unsplash)

Fashion Plate, 1808, Mode d’Italia, Corriere delle Dame

Carter King: Indigenizing European Fashions in the Georgian Period: How Historic Haudenosaunee Dress Expands Georgian Fashion through Interventions in Identity and Material (‘Good Peter’, Chief of the Oneida Indians, by John Trumbull, 1792, oil on wood, Trumbull Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, CarNo 1832.67

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 17d

Sadiq Khan on Farage’s plan today -
“Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

“Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 18d

📢 Session 3 of the Society’s Conference ‘In the Shadow of the Georgians’ 25/10/25 2-5pm with @amywilsonstorey.bsky.social Joanna Jarvis, Sally Tuckett, Javier Gileno Martinez @clairebatt.bsky.social Details & tickets costumesociety.org.uk/conference

Anne Dashwood, later Countess of Galloway oil on canvas, by Sir Joshua Reynolds 1764, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 50.238.2. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ladies of Quality in the Most Fashionable Head Dresses 1788 Courtesy of the Powerhouse Museum. Gift of Mr H Matthews, 1982. Photograph Laura Moore

‘An artist sketching, possibly Paul Sandby, ca.1755’ attributed to Francis Cotes (1726-1770). Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Accession Number B2014.5.42

‘Robe a la Demi Psyche’ Journal des Dames et des Modes Costume Parisien, 26 December 1799.
Private Collection

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · 19d

❤️✂️ #FashionFriday #FrenchPleat edition ✂️❤️

Having a suspected torn rotator cuff is impeding my ability to create the perfect up do, but I'm still trying.

Wearing #secondhandfashion blazer, pleated skirt and tie
Hair ❤️ Ramla Aqua hair salon Brockley

#SecondhandSeptember

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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 22d

📢 Session 1 of The Costume Society's 2025 Conference 'In the Shadow of the Georgians' Sat 18/10 2-4pm with @fourredshoes.bsky.social Summer Lee, Fatima Giordano
& Gabriela Juranek
Tickets eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-shado…

Hilary Davidson: Global Fashion in the Age of Jane Austen: Communities and Colonies (Nicholas Heideloff Gallery of Fashion, 1798) Private Collection

Summer Lee: Founding Fashions: The Revolutionary Wardrobes of Washington, Adams and Jefferson (John Adams by William Winstanley, 1798)

Fatima Giordano: Queens in the Mirror: Fashion and Image Choices between Maria Carolina and Maria Clementina in the Kingdom of Naples (Portrait of Maria Clementina of Austria, Duchess of Calabria, Joseph Hickel, 1796 Naples, Royal Palace)

Gabriela Juranek: 'It's not that we approve of those belts placed so high....' Social discourses surrounding fashion a l'antique in late 1790s Paris. (Laurent Guyot, Deux Femmes Vêtues à la Romaine, 1798, originally published in the "Tableau Général du Goût", 1797-1799, No. 1 (22 sept. 1798), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2009-1464

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · 22d

💔 RIP Robert Redford
A true movie star #Icon

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · 22d

Can't wait! Already booked my ticket for @costumesociety.org.uk Annual online conference - In the Shadow of the Georgians!
#CosSoc25

The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 22d

📢 'In the Shadow of the Georgians' online conference tickets now live - international speakers explore many aspects of dress 1714-1815
Full details of the conference programme costumesociety.org.uk/conference
Tickets at eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-shado…#fashionhistory#cossoc2525

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · 26d

❤️ #FashionFriday #GreatGreatGreatGrandfather Memorial to William Simpson at Liverpool Parish Church "his voice was always raised on behalf of the poor and downtrodden, and in the promotion of charity and kindness" In 2ndhand jacket #FoundInOxfam prairie dress & Nakshi Kantha scarf

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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · 29d

We are looking for volunteers to join Events & Conference Sub-Committee to help develop, promote & deliver our visits, events, annual celebration day & online conference.
costumesociety.org.uk/news/item/jo... & reach out to our Sub-Committee Chair, Philip Warren [email protected]
#cossoc25

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · Sep 5

❤️🇫🇷 #FashionFriday #LeLongWeekend edition 🇫🇷❤️

In Paris wearing vintage 🕶️, white linen jacket, #charityshopfind stripey tee, Josephine trousers @palavafolk offwhite #brogues #NewHair

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The Costume Society @costumesociety.org.uk · Sep 4

We are saddened to hear about the death of Giorgio Armani (1934-2025). Beginning his career at Cerruti 1881, launching his eponymous label in 1975 Armani built a career redefining women's and men's wardrobes. The fashion industry has lost a rare talent.

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · Aug 29

💙⚓#FashionFriday #BirthdayWeek edition ⚓💙
Sailing into my birthday weekend wearing white linen jacket, vintage Dior silk scarf, vintage willow pattern brooch, blue linen wide legged trousers 💚 Palava, brogues, Snoopy watch❤️🐟🍟🍅 @sewyoursoul Bourdon Street Chippy

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · Aug 27

#HolidayAtHome visit to
❤️🧵🪡 Lucy Sparrow's scrumptious Bourdon Street Chippy 🐟🍟🍅
65K individually delightful hand-sewn objects fill this full-sized fish and chip shop all made from felt
Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, 20 Bourdon Street, Mayfair, W1K 3PJ
#LondonLife #Staycation

Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · Aug 22

💚♻️#FashionFriday #CharitySuperMkt edition ♻️💚
Wearing patchwork jacket Charity SuperMkt secondhand gingham skirt Through Your Wardrobe, vintage silk neckerchief, cowboyboots, recycled firehose bag 💚 Elvis & Kresse

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · Aug 20

Had a lovely time with ❤️ Bethana @vamuseum Design and Disability exhibition.
Fabulous to see ⭐💄⭐ #kohlkreatives work featured for their innnovative and inclusive beauty tools ❤️

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · Aug 15

💚🪡🧵#FashionFriday #stitchitdontditchit edition🧵🪡💚 gentle fashion activism drawing attention to reuse & repair & rejecting overconsumption ❤️how 1 of my best friends started a global @Streetstitching movement #FoundInOxfam prairie dress with borrowed belt 📸 💕 @twistedtwee

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Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social · Aug 8

Final 3 regenerative fashion workshops
Stitch-In with Oitij-Jo
📅 Mon 11th August
⏰11AM–1PM

Future Fashion Scenarios:
📅Mon 18th August
⏰11AM–1PM

Fashion and Cultural Heritage: South Asian Styling
📅 Tues 19th August
⏰ 1–3 PM
www.charitysupermkt.com/ravensbourne...