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?
February 10, 1787 HERE IS Carneval expiring: let us finish speaking of ball dress along with it. We have only shown dress for bals parés (1) in the last two Issues; it is just that we would speak of dress at bals masqués, at least in ending. For the bals masqués of honest people, and … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 10e Cahier, Plate II
February 20, 1787 It would be too little for Fashion, which is known to be so light, so inconstant, for people to only change it after a certain amount of time, after epochs, until disgust can arise, and has already arisen; it still wants to change several times a day. That's why it's taken on … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 10e Cahier, Plate I
10 February 1787 ENGLISH FASHIONS. WHO wins for taste, English Ladies or French Ladies? who knows best how to choose their colors, the shape of their garments, the manner of doing their hair, the uniformity or matching of their clothes? who knows best how to adorn their air, their person? We leave this question to … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 9e Cahier, Plate II
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
