Bethan Bide
@bethanbide.bsky.social
Lectures in fashion, textiles, and dress history and Director of the Pasold Research Fund. Interested in fashion cities/ museums/ object biographies/ Jewish fashion makers/ 20th Century ready-to-wear clothing.
You joke, but as someone who runs a seminar dedicated to looking at trouser crotch stains, I’m delighted the OfS has my back.
June 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
You joke, but as someone who runs a seminar dedicated to looking at trouser crotch stains, I’m delighted the OfS has my back.
I absolutely loved Mary Quant! Jenny Lister did a fabulous job capturing the the energy and appeal of the clothes as well as their social reach and details of the business.
November 9, 2023 at 10:35 AM
I absolutely loved Mary Quant! Jenny Lister did a fabulous job capturing the the energy and appeal of the clothes as well as their social reach and details of the business.
Oh this is perfection.
October 31, 2023 at 7:59 PM
Oh this is perfection.
Yes, and of course it’s always the pieces I want to see most that are on top!
October 17, 2023 at 8:02 PM
Yes, and of course it’s always the pieces I want to see most that are on top!
I was also pretty uncomfortable with some of the framing surrounding Aryanization and Chanel’s activities during WW2. Whilst narratives of collaboration and resistance are often complex, the horror of what happened to Jewish people in the fashion industry should be front and centre in those stories.
October 17, 2023 at 11:03 AM
I was also pretty uncomfortable with some of the framing surrounding Aryanization and Chanel’s activities during WW2. Whilst narratives of collaboration and resistance are often complex, the horror of what happened to Jewish people in the fashion industry should be front and centre in those stories.