Missingshoe
@missingshoe.bsky.social
Fashion historian, focussed on archival practices and knitwear
East London barbers are brutal. While washing my hair, he says ‘Have you thought about making the trip to Turkey?’ 🇹🇷🫨😂
May 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
East London barbers are brutal. While washing my hair, he says ‘Have you thought about making the trip to Turkey?’ 🇹🇷🫨😂
This leaflet of hand knitting patterns from #maryquant was published in 1966. #knitting #fashionhistory
April 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This leaflet of hand knitting patterns from #maryquant was published in 1966. #knitting #fashionhistory
One of my favourite things to find while going through vintage knitting patterns are these little written notes and maths in the text and margins, which show evidence of a garment’s existence - that a garment was made - without the garment physically present. #knitwear #fashionhistory
February 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
One of my favourite things to find while going through vintage knitting patterns are these little written notes and maths in the text and margins, which show evidence of a garment’s existence - that a garment was made - without the garment physically present. #knitwear #fashionhistory
I walked for 25 minutes in the cold to go to a very large charity shop next to a very large TK Maxx (because I’m house sitting outside London and bigger shops with room to walk around sounds fantastic), the way there was absolutely nothing. Like, not a damn thing worthy of that walk.
February 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I walked for 25 minutes in the cold to go to a very large charity shop next to a very large TK Maxx (because I’m house sitting outside London and bigger shops with room to walk around sounds fantastic), the way there was absolutely nothing. Like, not a damn thing worthy of that walk.
February 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Watching the Traitors US and two thoughts: the Traitors never are the last to enter the breakfast room so never seem to have the possibility of being murdered so that should be a signal for the faithfuls, and also the amount of berets worn is astounding.
January 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Watching the Traitors US and two thoughts: the Traitors never are the last to enter the breakfast room so never seem to have the possibility of being murdered so that should be a signal for the faithfuls, and also the amount of berets worn is astounding.
Sometimes you watch a movie and you really can see all the budget was used in a really spectacular manner. Watching Conclave and that 20 million dollar budget is on display the entire film. Fantastic.
January 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Sometimes you watch a movie and you really can see all the budget was used in a really spectacular manner. Watching Conclave and that 20 million dollar budget is on display the entire film. Fantastic.
RIP to Polly Mellen, she saw the news, said “nah” and dipped.
December 12, 2024 at 8:03 PM
RIP to Polly Mellen, she saw the news, said “nah” and dipped.
Everyone in the room just kept looking at each other is various states of shock when this scarf, lot 386, an early accessory from Hubert de Givenchy, sold for £16,000 at Kerry Taylor Auctions’ Passion for Fashion sale. 🎀🫨 #fashionhistory
December 11, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Everyone in the room just kept looking at each other is various states of shock when this scarf, lot 386, an early accessory from Hubert de Givenchy, sold for £16,000 at Kerry Taylor Auctions’ Passion for Fashion sale. 🎀🫨 #fashionhistory
A couple tried to chat me up at the pub tonight, and it was so bad it instantly sobered me up.
December 7, 2024 at 1:34 AM
A couple tried to chat me up at the pub tonight, and it was so bad it instantly sobered me up.
Jonathan Bailey’s vintage tees worn during the #Wicked press tour have me reminiscing about the many styles of #WizardofOz graphic T-shirts produced by Stanley Desantis throughout the 1990s #fashionhistory
November 30, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Jonathan Bailey’s vintage tees worn during the #Wicked press tour have me reminiscing about the many styles of #WizardofOz graphic T-shirts produced by Stanley Desantis throughout the 1990s #fashionhistory
Odd bit of ephemera added to my collection today: a Bill Gibb hanger, perfect for my 80s produced cardigan. #fashionhistory
November 26, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Odd bit of ephemera added to my collection today: a Bill Gibb hanger, perfect for my 80s produced cardigan. #fashionhistory
Thinking about how I recommended Fellow Travelers to a friend of mine when I meant to recommend All of Us Strangers, and how I accidentally made my straight friend watch some of the horniest #queerfilms of recent history.
November 24, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Thinking about how I recommended Fellow Travelers to a friend of mine when I meant to recommend All of Us Strangers, and how I accidentally made my straight friend watch some of the horniest #queerfilms of recent history.
Iman wearing a dress by Michaele Vollbracht, photographed by Ara Gallant for ‘Top-model come movie-star’ Vogue Italia, October 1981. #fashionhistory
November 24, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Iman wearing a dress by Michaele Vollbracht, photographed by Ara Gallant for ‘Top-model come movie-star’ Vogue Italia, October 1981. #fashionhistory
Iman wearing her own Claude Montana robe and ‘walking’ Andy Warhol’s taxidermy fox, photographed by Ara Gallant for ‘Top-model come movie-star’ Vogue Italia, October 1981. #fashionhistory
November 24, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Iman wearing her own Claude Montana robe and ‘walking’ Andy Warhol’s taxidermy fox, photographed by Ara Gallant for ‘Top-model come movie-star’ Vogue Italia, October 1981. #fashionhistory
Two divas (Alexander McQueen f/w 1998 ‘Joan’ suit and a Spitalfields silk Robe à la Française (sack back), English, ca. 1775) holding space with the lyrics of Defying Gravity. (Lots 126 and 419 in the upcoming Passion for Fashion auction at Kerry Taylor Auctions, December 10th, 2024) #fashionhistory
November 24, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Two divas (Alexander McQueen f/w 1998 ‘Joan’ suit and a Spitalfields silk Robe à la Française (sack back), English, ca. 1775) holding space with the lyrics of Defying Gravity. (Lots 126 and 419 in the upcoming Passion for Fashion auction at Kerry Taylor Auctions, December 10th, 2024) #fashionhistory
Cashmere cardigan from Lainey Keogh, the twin of Sinéad O’Connor’s worn for the cover of her album ‘Sean-Nós Nua’
November 17, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Cashmere cardigan from Lainey Keogh, the twin of Sinéad O’Connor’s worn for the cover of her album ‘Sean-Nós Nua’
Just wasted the last of my oat milk making the worst coffee
November 14, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Just wasted the last of my oat milk making the worst coffee