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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 4h

... that represents an irrevocable step from one type/influence to another, that it never came back from. It works as a first step toward treating fashion history as history, but then continuing to treat it as history means nuancing it so much that it stops being useful as a lens of analysis.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 4h

I wouldn't disagree that there were decisions made around the time of the Revolution, particularly in France, to deliberately abandon what was seen as aristocratic in fashion. What I'm saying is that it's too much to say that there's a line in the sand for men's clothing across the board ...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

This is bad. Share stuff from the original journalists who are putting themselves on the line, not the aggregators. ❤️

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16h

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 6h

mimicofmodes.com/2025/10/13/w... Over on my blog (yes, it still exists), I've written up my thoughts on the idea of the Great Male Renunciation, an early-twentieth-century concept we should put to bed. 🗃️🪡

What’s the Deal with the Great Male Renunciation?

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 …

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 10d

I think it's time to go back to primarily courting physical bookstores, book clubs, and library systems. And think of social media as a place where you post the occasional ad just to let people know a thing exists, like we used to do in newspapers.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 19h

IT'S SO UNNECESSARY! But she can't go along to get along, she MUST make me get rid of Clyde before she can be comfortable. 🙄

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 19h

And I feel bad about it because he's being a sweetie! But it has to happen.

With Clyde outside, Bonnie is now happy and eventually curls up on the bed with me. But as I don't trust her not to wake me up in an hour or two when she wants out of the room, I grab her and put her in the hall too.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 19h

I turn on the light to try to catch her and she goes back under the bed, where I can't reach her, and stares at me. I turn out the light again and try to sleep, and she does it again.

Finally I decide to put both cats in the hall and shut the door. Clyde goes out first because he's right at hand.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 19h

I'm so jealous of people whose cats can just sleep on the bed with them.

What happens every time I try this is that Clyde curls up on top of the covers while Bonnie hides under the bed. Then as I try to fall asleep, she darts out to claw at the slipper chair.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 21h

Had a great time at the 2025 Oneonta Local Author Expo this afternoon, despite a low-key migraine trying to happen the whole time! I'm going to try to get involved with the Writer Salon at CANO going forward.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 1d

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

phys.org

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 1d

Too late for today but I just realized I should cross stitch a QR code pointing to my carrd for in-person events ...

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 2d

They have a shoe on display that is said to have been Catharine Van Rensselaer Schuyler's wedding slipper ... I would date it later (1775-1785) and suggest it belonged to a daughter's wedding or was worn later in her life. 🗃️🪡

A single woman's high heeled shoe in beige silk, with a narrow buckle and slender heel.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

This week on the blog: More Peasants!

This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.

Now with pie chart!

acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It

This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 2d

Schuyler Mansion in Albany, back in the day. 🗃️

A diorama of Schuyler Mansion and its grounds in the 18th century: a red and white house with expansive orchards and gardens.

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History Symposium @historysymposium.bsky.social · 2d

www.historysymposium.com/cassidy-perc...

In one week! @mimicofmodes.com will help us kick off our livestreams for the fall season.

It is time to learn all about corsets!

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Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 2d

Getting into the Halloween spirit with medieval books at the Morgan Library.

Image of skeletons attacking men in a medieval book

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 2d

A good rule of thumb is "if you don't remember how long it's been in the fridge, you probably shouldn't eat it."

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 3d

#FindsFriday This bronze helmet was found in a field near Falaise in northern France in the 1820s

It dates to the late Bronze Age, around 1100-900BC, and was part of a cache of 10 helmets!

What could have prompted someone to bury all these? 👀

#archaeology #ancientbluesky #museums

A dark greenish corroded metal helmet with a large point at the top sitting on a glass museum shelf

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3d

Pot of gold!

Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum!

Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a pile of shiny Roman gold coins below five fragments from a grey pot

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 3d

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As for her call for non-academics to get involved: one thing you should do if you see attacks on academic freedom or administrators capitulating to Trump's extortion at your alma mater is to write the uni/college president & express your outrage. They need to hear from alumni ASAP. Template👇

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 3d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 20d

I am still not over discovering the anagram, and I never will be www.feliciadavin.com/ticklishly-p...

Ticklishly pleasing

Judy Cuevas, tiles, and my new theory of romance novels

www.feliciadavin.com

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 3d

Notker the Stammerer: The Monk Who Shaped Charlemagne’s Musical Legacy www.medievalists.net/2025/07/notk... #medievalmusic

Notker the Stammerer: The Monk Who Shaped Charlemagne’s Musical Legacy - Medievalists.net

Discover how Notker the Stammerer, a monk of St. Gall, helped shape Charlemagne’s musical legacy through his writings, chant compositions, and lasting influence on medieval liturgy.

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 5d

New Fashion History Video! 🎉

"Button Up, Button Down, Buttons All Around: Men's Coats in the Playful Eighteenth Century"

🗃️🪡

#FashionHistory

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8J6...

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