@julieinstitches.bsky.social
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Women, women’s history, dress history, art history, books, politics, wine…under a French sky. Formerly Twitter (X) AStitchInTime13
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Hi everyone. Just wanted to say that I’m juggling a lot of serious family stuff & don’t have time to post on here. I’ll be back when I can 🙏
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Here is another c. 1910 Poiret evening coat with striking contrasting silks. This one with metallic-threaded appliqué lace. It is a kimono or cocoon coat, a loose-fitting, draped outer garment heavily influenced by Eastern cultures. #fashionhistory #ootd #paulpoiret
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Some midweek glam 🍸
Robe du soir, Jeanne Lanvin, 1933-34, via Palais Galliera, Paris.
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It was atrocious. Well danced Alex.
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Petition: Covid-19 bereaved families calling for Michelle Mone to be stripped of her peerage and removed from the House of Lords.

Launched yesterday. Currently standing at 62,732. Let's get it to a million. She has to go.

#MichelleMone
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Sign the Petition
Strip Michelle Mone of her peerage
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julieinstitches.bsky.social
Hurray! Some justice for victims of this appalling scandal, don’t stop there…
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Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting
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rcnhistory.bsky.social
#histnursing WW2 nurse Mary Helen Young helped prisoners escape Nazi occupied France
sarasheridan.bsky.social
Today a THREAD👇 of Scottish WWII sheroes who shone in adversity. 1st resistance fighter & nurse Mary Helen Young helped prisoners escape Nazi-occuped France. Killed in Ravensbruck, novelist, Simone St Clair, incarcerated with her said 'she kept her chin up' Mary we salute you./1
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Erm..Labour is apparently not a party of protest.
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Coat by Jeanne Lanvin, 1910-13. Via Palais Galliera.
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hottycouture.bsky.social
London Day 1: Opening day of "Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop" at the Fashion + Textile Museum! John Bright opened up his vault of greatest hits from the costume house behind everybody's favorite period dramas, including my very favorite:
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Day dress, Augustine Martin, France, ca 1880. Via Historic Costume Collection, Drexel University.
Navy & brown patterned gown with buttons, France, c1880. Wool, silk & metal, Drexel
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amywilsonstorey.bsky.social
What did #18thcentury women wear when they were pregnant? What did a ‘good’ mother look like? Which fashion was both patriotic and recommended by midwives? For the answers to all these questions join me at the #IHR on 7th Oct archive.history.ac.uk/events/good-...
Duchess of Queensberry dressed as a milkmaid. She wears an apron and simple cap and carries a staff.
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ahistoryinart.bsky.social
'Cyclamen in a Pot.' (1925) Dora Carrington's sustaining inspiration was Cézanne. As well still-lifes there are a number of landscapes, views of buildings and trees - all have a formal purity, a worldly neutrality, which handily brings us back to Cézanne.
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Manuscript notes and character sketches written by Maria Edgeworth in planning her novels; some pages are extended by sewn-on scraps of paper. Amazing to see these, and the original case she stored them in!
Small notebooks with fine handwriting
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I find it difficult to listen to his whiny voice at the best of times but this was excruciating viewing @channel4news.bsky.social
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Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."
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A collection of my neo-Edwardian stories: "Property of a Lady" about an erotic artifact bought at auction; "Stitches", a dead dressmaker returns; "Crape", on Victorian mourning gone wrong; and "A Spot of Bother"--Mrs Daffodil saves the day after a distasteful decapitation.
Available on Kindle.
Victorian maid in apron and cap, with apron splashed with blood. Cover of A Spot of Bother: Four Macabre Tales.
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emilybrand.bsky.social
Just something lovely and French to look at, as the whole world is talking about Marie Antoinette

An amateur drawing presented to one of her pretty young chambermaids by an admirer in 1790

#marieantoinette