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Friday, April 21, 2017

Eighteenth-Century Fans at the Chicago History Museum

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Is anyone a fan of the eighteenth century? Fans have been an important luxury item, status symbol, and practical object throughout history...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Book Review: The Dress Detective by Ingrid Mida and Alexandra Kim

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The Dress Detective: A Practical Guide to Object-Based Research in Fashion by Ingrid Mida and Alexandra Kim Bloomsbury "...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Art Deco Textiles In America Part 2: American History and Modern Life

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We're finishing up Textile Month after some technical difficulties! This week we bring you the long awaited Part 2 of our Art Deco text...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Book Review: Nautical Chic by Amber Jane Butchart

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Nautical Chic by Amber Jane Butchart Abrams (USA); Thames & Hudson Ltd. (UK) "It is France, the United States, and...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Art Deco Textiles in America Part 1: Africana Prints and Non-Western Influences

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It's Textile Month here on The Fashion Historian! Each week this month we'll be bringing you a textile themed post. This week, in Pa...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Printed Textiles in Eighteenth-Century America

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It's Textile Month here on The Fashion Historian! Each week this month we'll be bringing you a textile themed post. This week, learn...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Interview with Fashion Victims Author Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

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Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell recently published her first book, Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette . Af...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

Book Review: Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

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Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Yale University Press &quo...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

MythBusters: Fashion History Edition

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Myth: Fashionable eighteenth-century ladies shaved off their eyebrows and used false eyebrows made of mouse fur. Grace Dalrymple Elliot ...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Embroidery Samples at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Any visitor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City should stop by Gallery 599 on their tour of the museum. It's a small gall...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Coiffure à la [Fill in the Blank]

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One of the most famous and persistent images of the eighteenth century is a woman with an enormous tall wig decorated with ribbons, feathers...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Exploring the Decades with Disney Princesses: Cinderella

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Part 1: Snow White from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) As a fashion historian, I find that an interesting aspect of Disney is ho...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

La Mode à la Girafe

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La mode à la girafe translates to giraffe fashion, that is, fashion inspired by and celebrating giraffes. Or, in the case of late 1820s Fra...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Historic Influence

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Left: Elizabeth Banks in Elie Saab Fall 2014 Couture Top Right: Three robes a la francaise from the Kyoto Costume Institute Bottom ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Fashion and New Technology

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Fashion has always had a strong relationship with new technology. In the late eighteenth century, looms ran on punch cards to weave complex ...