The 8th of March has just been and gone. Pre-packed sprigs of yellow mimosa in the supermarket and tacky adverts…. … More
Tag: dress
ALL WRAPPED UP! (Post no. 1 on fur fashions)
El Greco, Lady in fur, 1580s, Glasgow museums and galleries, Scotland El Greco’s enigmatic lady is wrapped up in a … More
BLACK AND WHITE UNITE! (Post no.4 on colour combinations in dress)
Photo John French, model Susan Abraham in John Cavanagh lace evening dress, 1957 The combination of black and white in … More
Rising up to the times (Post no.2 on WW I fashions)
Journal des Dames et des Modes, Paris, 1913 This post wants to investigate the ‘rise’ (literally) in fashion of the … More
Rossetti’s lips (Post no.1 on Pre-Raphaelite ideals of beauty)
Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-2, Tate Britain, London UK An exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings just opened in Turin (Italy) … More
RUFFLE MY FEATHERS: ON PLUMAGE AND FASHION
For centuries, probably millennia (but I don’t have the material evidence for you) mankind has been fascinated by bird plumage … More