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English fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth was born #OnThisDay in 1825. He designed this silk taffeta girl's evening dress, trimmed with bands of green silk satin, lace, and sheer tabby net, in 1867. Donated by Doris Langley-Moore to the Royal Ontario Museum. #Worth200#fashionhistory
Yesterday, we lost a Fashion & Film ICON & the world got a little less cool & stylish. So, today's #FashionHistory🧵is a little tribute to the wonderful style & fantabulous fashion of the incomparable Diane Keaton.
Fashion Service, October / lokakuu 1927. The magazines were provided first as a quarterly review in the Fall Winter 1920 issue, and later in 1927 as a monthly magazine. Tätä amerikkalaista muotilehteä julkaistiin ensin neljä kertaa vuodessa, ja sitten kuukausittain. #fashionhistory#muoti#historia
Cotton Dress
American; ca 1815
From The MET's website:
"This dress presents a lively and engaging textile with its overall small prints."
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Silk Evening Dress, Embroidered w/ Metallic Thread
1925-26
Design House: Callot Soeurs (French, active 1895–1937)
After the deaths of Josephine (in 1897) & Marthe (in 1920), Regina retired, leaving Marie as the only Callot Sister to run the Design House in the 1920s.
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to showcase the types of outfits available when Poiret first started working in fashion. A great contrast to his more progressive looks. Although this is so sweet! I still call it the Winnie-the-Pooh Hundred Acre Woods dress. #Fashionhistory#madparis
The blurred, sheer edges of this mid #1950s Lanvin Castillo dress give it an illusory quality. It is mirage-like, one spin and it might disappear in a cloud of lilac, ruffles and all @metmuseum.org#FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Silk Beaded Evening Dress
ca 1911
Design House: Callot Soeurs (French, active 1895–1937)
Callot Soeurs was one of the most significant Parisian haute couture houses in the early 20th century.
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🍿 SPECIAL: Carbon Arc presents a Sustainable Fashion Week screening of documentary THE TRUE COST, about the impact of fast-fashion trends. Catch a mini sustainable/vintage fashion market before the show!
Screens tonight (Sat) @ 6pm, market @ 5pm: www.carbonarc.ca/events/t….
designed for Countess Greffulhe, a French socialite and muse of Marcel Proust. The exhibit reminds us that the roses on the dress are similar to the one Poiret would adopt as his symbol in 1908-9. #Fashionhistory#ootd