I've always meant to finish documenting my one fashion history exhibition at the Fenimore Art Museum, both for personal reasons and so that there is any record of these garments and makers existing on the internet, but somehow never got around to it. But now that I've left my position there, it feels like time … Continue reading Elegant New York (2021)
Category: 19th century
An 1860s Swiss Waist from My Personal Collection
Swiss waists are versatile little accessories from the mid-nineteenth century.
La Mode Illustrée, May 14, 1865
Toilettes by Mme Bréant-Castel, 58 1/2 Rue St. Anne. Redingote of unbleached-linen-colored taffeta, with scalloped edges, trimmed with a thick piping of lilac taffeta; the redingote is open in front over an undergown of lilac taffeta, edged with a narrow box-pleated flounce; this undergown is not a full gown, and is made of two pieces … Continue reading La Mode Illustrée, May 14, 1865
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.
What’s the Deal with the Great Male Renunciation?
This is a concept I've had issues with for a long time. I don't tend to think about it (as I prefer to think we've moved past it as a field), but a couple of weekends ago it came up in a paper at an event I was attending and I started trying to formulate … Continue reading What’s the Deal with the Great Male Renunciation?
