Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
@hottycouture.bsky.social
Fashion Historian. NEH Public Scholar. Working on a biography of the best fashion designer you've never heard of. Also me: @wornonthisday.bsky.social
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CBS should make me editor-in-chief and it will be 24 hours nonstop coverage about arcane menswear rules no one knows or cares about
December 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
CBS should make me editor-in-chief and it will be 24 hours nonstop coverage about arcane menswear rules no one knows or cares about
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Our hood of the month, the beautiful Cambridge Bachelor of Music. Historical details are at burgon.org.uk/hood-of-month
‘For once, Charles Franklyn’s immortal phrase may be confidently applied, since few would contest that this hood really is one of the most beautiful and dignified in the world’.
‘For once, Charles Franklyn’s immortal phrase may be confidently applied, since few would contest that this hood really is one of the most beautiful and dignified in the world’.
December 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Our hood of the month, the beautiful Cambridge Bachelor of Music. Historical details are at burgon.org.uk/hood-of-month
‘For once, Charles Franklyn’s immortal phrase may be confidently applied, since few would contest that this hood really is one of the most beautiful and dignified in the world’.
‘For once, Charles Franklyn’s immortal phrase may be confidently applied, since few would contest that this hood really is one of the most beautiful and dignified in the world’.
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What's striking about Trump's lies, and those of his apologists, is that they're not even plausible. They don't try to be plausible. As others have noted, that's kind of the point. True authoritarian control and power is telling a blatant and obvious lie, and showing you can get away with it.
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
December 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
What's striking about Trump's lies, and those of his apologists, is that they're not even plausible. They don't try to be plausible. As others have noted, that's kind of the point. True authoritarian control and power is telling a blatant and obvious lie, and showing you can get away with it.
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All of this thread.
We cannot turn whole universities into AI development centers. This is a commercial and political obsession, not education or skill-development.
We cannot turn whole universities into AI development centers. This is a commercial and political obsession, not education or skill-development.
It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
December 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
All of this thread.
We cannot turn whole universities into AI development centers. This is a commercial and political obsession, not education or skill-development.
We cannot turn whole universities into AI development centers. This is a commercial and political obsession, not education or skill-development.
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 14: April in Scotland calls for a velvet cape. Jeannie Gibb of Turriff was snug as a bug in a rug at her 1898 wedding to Fred Dawson in this high-collared brown velvet bodice, skirt, and matching cape trimmed with pink satin ribbons, now in the Aberdeen Art Gallery.
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 14: April in Scotland calls for a velvet cape. Jeannie Gibb of Turriff was snug as a bug in a rug at her 1898 wedding to Fred Dawson in this high-collared brown velvet bodice, skirt, and matching cape trimmed with pink satin ribbons, now in the Aberdeen Art Gallery.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Mary Delany (1700-1788), English Bluestocking artist, used decoupage to make botanical 'Paper Mosaiks'.
Mistletoe, in pagan folklore signifies fertility and has since been associated with #Christmas kisses #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
Mistletoe, in pagan folklore signifies fertility and has since been associated with #Christmas kisses #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
December 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Mary Delany (1700-1788), English Bluestocking artist, used decoupage to make botanical 'Paper Mosaiks'.
Mistletoe, in pagan folklore signifies fertility and has since been associated with #Christmas kisses #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
Mistletoe, in pagan folklore signifies fertility and has since been associated with #Christmas kisses #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
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Stages of holiday shopping
1. Plenty of time
2. Gifts for myself
3. Oh no
1. Plenty of time
2. Gifts for myself
3. Oh no
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Stages of holiday shopping
1. Plenty of time
2. Gifts for myself
3. Oh no
1. Plenty of time
2. Gifts for myself
3. Oh no
Annual shoutout to my favorite modern Christmas movie "The Spirit of Christmas" in which the ghost of a 1920s bootlegger materializes in 2015 and everyone just assumes he's a hipster because LOOK AT HIM.
December 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Annual shoutout to my favorite modern Christmas movie "The Spirit of Christmas" in which the ghost of a 1920s bootlegger materializes in 2015 and everyone just assumes he's a hipster because LOOK AT HIM.
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This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
December 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
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Liberty & Co. evening cloak, cotton velvet lined with silk, embroidered with silk & beads, early 1910s. Via The John Bright Collection, full description & images here: www.thejohnbrightcollection.co.uk/costume/cloa...
November 26, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Liberty & Co. evening cloak, cotton velvet lined with silk, embroidered with silk & beads, early 1910s. Via The John Bright Collection, full description & images here: www.thejohnbrightcollection.co.uk/costume/cloa...
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kinda think Biden could do us all a favour and have a simple library at the Uni of Delaware and show the rest up for the ridiculous vanity projects they are
December 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
kinda think Biden could do us all a favour and have a simple library at the Uni of Delaware and show the rest up for the ridiculous vanity projects they are
#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 13: It may have been [checks notes] April, but that didn't stop Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin from draping herself in a regal mink-trimmed robe appliqued with lace and 17,500 seed pearls at her 1978 wedding to her second husband, actor Glynn Turman, in Detroit, MI.
December 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 13: It may have been [checks notes] April, but that didn't stop Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin from draping herself in a regal mink-trimmed robe appliqued with lace and 17,500 seed pearls at her 1978 wedding to her second husband, actor Glynn Turman, in Detroit, MI.
Some highlights from the Mingei Museum's recent show "Fashioning an Icon" for Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe:
December 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Some highlights from the Mingei Museum's recent show "Fashioning an Icon" for Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe:
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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The desire to cite a friend’s book and then be like “see also the earlier essay version and also the even earlier conference presentation and then also probs check our text thread that happened after we hatched all of these ideas at the pub”
December 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The desire to cite a friend’s book and then be like “see also the earlier essay version and also the even earlier conference presentation and then also probs check our text thread that happened after we hatched all of these ideas at the pub”
#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 12: Nancy Leiter--daughter of Marshall Field department store co-founder Levi Leiter--wore this Worth gown "of lustreless white silk made along severely plain lines," per an underwhelmed New York Times, to wed Maj. Colin Campbell in Washington, DC, in November 1904.
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 12: Nancy Leiter--daughter of Marshall Field department store co-founder Levi Leiter--wore this Worth gown "of lustreless white silk made along severely plain lines," per an underwhelmed New York Times, to wed Maj. Colin Campbell in Washington, DC, in November 1904.
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packing up the traveling kimono exhibition at the museum this week and i am so charmed by this logo!
December 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
packing up the traveling kimono exhibition at the museum this week and i am so charmed by this logo!
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Whilst he was particularly well known for his branded sportswear, Jean Patou also created some glamorous evening wear which, in this case, makes for a perfect festive frock. Some #1930s evergreen in cosy velvet #kunstgewerbemuseumberlin #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
December 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Whilst he was particularly well known for his branded sportswear, Jean Patou also created some glamorous evening wear which, in this case, makes for a perfect festive frock. Some #1930s evergreen in cosy velvet #kunstgewerbemuseumberlin #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.