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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · Nov 27
Countdown to Christmas 🎁 From 1st-24th December, feast on daily festive posts. Stay tuned.
‘Fête Joyeuse’ evening dress designed by Christian Dior, crimson silk organza, Paris, 1955. Via The V&A, description & more images here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O117674...
Crimson silk organza dress designed by Christian Dior, Paris, 1955.
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Kimono mini-dress, Rudi Gernreich, USA, 1963. Via The Museum at FIT here: fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/1092...
#advent #christmas #dress
Front view of kimono style mini-dress, red & purple checked wool knit, USA. 1963, FIT Close up view of 1963 mini-dress showing elbow length kimono sleeve & green tie belt around bust, FIT
December 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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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
December 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Sweet dreams. Christian Dior’s ‘Soirée de Décembre’ made 1955.
December 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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American First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln was born #OnThisDay in 1818. This c. 1862-4 green and cream woollen plaid dress (which has a matching cape) is believed to have been made for Lincoln by African American dressmaker Elizabeth Keckly. Chicago Museums collection. #FirstLady #fashionhistory
December 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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...
Cotton velvet lined with silk evening cloak, Liberty & Co., early 1910s.
December 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Mrs Cassatt Reading to her Grandchildren https://www.wikiart.org/en/mary-cassatt/mrs-cassatt-reading-to-her-grandchildren-1880
Mrs Cassatt Reading to her Grandchildren
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Brooch, possibly made in France, 1850-65. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O115435...
#advent #christmas #holly
Brooch in the form of a sprig of holly, enamelled gold & coral. Possibly made in France, 1850-65, VA
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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British designer Jasper Conran OBE was born #OnThisDay in 1959. He designed this black silk and viscose devoré velvet bias-cut evening dress in 1996. The black-on-black foliate design was achieved by contrasting the matte black with the deeper black pile. V&A collection. #fashionhistory
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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#FridayFrocks #SparkleAndShine – A silver lamé jacket, c.1925 – 30, trimmed with marabou feathers. Though seen in eveningwear, lamé also found its way into bridalwear, as seen in this 1920s silver lamé wedding dress.
December 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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The Magdalen Reading, c. 1435, delicately turning the page, beside her alabaster jar of ointment, oil on panel, fragment of altarpiece by Rogier van der Weyden, influential Flemish artist (c.1400-1464), pupil of Robert Campin, court painter to Duke of Burgundy.
National Gallery London
December 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Day 11 of my Edwardian #AdventCalendar is this two-piece, embroidered black and purple silk charmeuse dress. Dating from c. 1908, and believed to have been designed by Callot Sœurs, the dress takes style inspiration from elements of the kimono. Kyoto Costume Institute. #fashionhistory
December 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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🎈Christmas visiting outfit sorted 🎈Red silk, British, ca 1865. Via The Met here: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Front view of red silk dress with short sleeves & full skirt, ca 1865, MET Short long sleeve red silk jacket with black trimmings, ca 1865, MET
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 11: Arline Steward wed her college sweetheart Howard Nelson in a Lakefield, MN, church in October 1935, wearing a glamorous gown "of peach velvet with a matching hat and carrying chrysanthemums," per the Minneapolis Journal. Rhinestones and pintucks trim the bodice.
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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🎁 Dear Father Christmas…Boots by Andrea Pfister, France, c1979. Via LACMA.
#advent #christmas #red #boots
Pair of high heeled red boots, France, c1979. Leather (suede) & calfskin with synthetic embroidery, LACMA
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Klaxon! www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art - Exhibition at V&A South Kensington · V&A
This exhibition traces the history, impact and continuing influence of one of the 20th century’s most innovative fashion creatives, Elsa Schiaparelli.
www.vam.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🎁 Dear Father Christmas…Boots by Andrea Pfister, France, c1979. Via LACMA.
#advent #christmas #red #boots
Pair of high heeled red boots, France, c1979. Leather (suede) & calfskin with synthetic embroidery, LACMA
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Hatbox
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/1381892
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Vincente Minetti, 1976
December 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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All of the bells, bows and whistles were deployed in the fashioning of this ballgown, c1960 by Worth, London. Designer Owen Hyde-Clark created a glittering bodice with hand embroidery and teardrop shaped glistening diamanté with a dramatic belt and bright satin skirt #VandA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A close up photograph of a yelling w satin bodice with narrow satin straps embroidered with gold leaf motifs and teardrop diamanté embellishments An alternate view of the yellow satin ballgown bodice showing the satin strips running from shoulder to waist and a hint of the oversized buckle belt A side by side photograph of the front and back of the yellow satin ballgown. Beneath the broad belt is a long full satin skirt with self coloured bows appliquéd around its circumference
December 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Once more for the haters...
London is #1 graphic.
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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@channel4news.bsky.social It’s crucial to call out Trump’s divisive & offensive remarks. London & Paris are doing fine. I spend time in both on my own, feel perfectly safe.
December 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Day 9 of my Edwardian #AdventCalendar is this elegant embroidered silk dress. Dating to c. 1908, it was made by Madame Alice Manton Patrick who clearly took inspiration from the styles being produced by the Liberty department store. @jbrightcollection.bsky.social collection. #fashionhistory
December 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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He’s not the best-known Ladybird artist, but I do love Roger Hall’s depiction of Matilda escaping the siege of Oxford through the snow
On a snowy winters night, Matilda, in long white robes, looks back over the frozen River Thames towards the fire burning on the opposite bank
December 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️
A magazine cover, with a single illustration covering the entire page, and no headlines over the top. A hand illustration -- perhaps watercolors -- shows a snowy day and an empty road heading towards the viewer. In the distance, a cozy christmas tree store surrounded by green trees, some cut and some still standing, with a cozy cabin behind. In the foreground, a jaunty woman with hat and sunglasses and scarf bicycles toward us, with a christmas tree horizontally held on the front rack of her bike and a black scotty dog running alongside. She and the shop and the cabin are all in pastels; pinks and purples and white. Her white scarf and hat match the white snow on the store and cabin. It is a cheerful, jaunty, undaunted tone, and evenly spaced big snowflakes float down over it all. At the top the magazine name, The New Yorker, the date Dec. 19, 1942, and the Price: 15 cents. At the bottom is the signature of the artist, Garrett Price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Price
December 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Day 8 - Leaving the jazz club after an uproarious evening, Josephine and her merry band of revellers happen upon the most awful snarl up of festive traffic. Motor cars are honking and tempers are fraying. 1/2
A mannequin wearing a pink velvet flapper style dress with black and gold stylised floral embellishment at the hem and side of the dress. It has an oversized gold lamé lined knot at the shoulder
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM