Welcome to the sixth episode of the A Most Beguiling Accomplishment podcast! In this episode, I'm talking about the changes in making clothes over the Middle Ages that led to the development of tailoring.
Fashioning San Francisco
The de Young's show, Fashioning San Francisco, is a visual feast but lacks historical grounding or contextualization.
AMBA: Candace Wheeler: the Mother of American Interior Design
What's that? A podcast?? Yes! This episode is based on one of my first blog posts, Candace Wheeler: the Mother of American Interior Design.
Review: My Lady Jane (2024)
I really do try to not be a boring pedant. (I fancy that I’m an interesting pedant instead.) I try not to be a fuddy-duddy. I liked Dickinson! And here, I loved Anna Chancellor and Rob Brydon, and a lot of the inaccurate costumes! But despite going in with high hopes for an anachronistic, post-modern romp, I was sadly disappointed for a few reasons.
Magasin des Modes, 9e Cahier, Plate I
Despite the details that we gave in the preceding Issue on all the forms of caracos, of justes, of Turkish caracos, of little jackets, all has not yet been said.
Mimic of Modes 