Cassidy Percoco, Fashion Historian
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?
On BlueSky, there's a bot account that uses the Metropolitan Museum of Art's API to auto-post objects from the Costume Institute collection that are listed as open access. (There are quite a few of these accounts, for different Met departments as well as for other museums.) I like to check in on it every so … Continue reading The Robe à Transformation
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.
Everyone! I am incredibly happy to announce that I have signed a contract with Routledge to produce a book of patterns of eighteenth-century women’s garments!
It looks like I made a Twitter thread on this back in February of 2020, and while I always intended to turn it into a blog post, I suppose it's not surprising that I, er, forgot about it. But I've been thinking about the basic late Georgian hairstyle for a long time, ever since a … Continue reading Late Georgian Hairstyles: Fewer Buns Than You'd Think
