A Moment of Dress-Lust
For this beautiful, hand embroidered, silk 1940’s cocktail dress — currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which I guess makes a lot of sense. Still…it does inspire.
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Textile Arts
How To Admire One Another In A Good Year
Love this engraving of Swiss (Basel) dress from the 1630s entitled "How To Admire One Another in a Good Year." Still trying to work what the young woman has concealed under her headdress — that hoof sticking out beneath the veil is a bit alarming. What we won't do for fashion. But it does show
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