Renart and Ysengrin

Fashion History, History Bounding and Mori Kei

[gentlyepigrams]

Ball gown, 1908. The MET.

[a-full-moon-and-blooming-flowers]

This dress is giving such a secretive vibe. Add a little shawl above you long white or black dress and you can easily replicate this aesthetic.

[medievalreligiousfanatic]

[ursus-arctos-horribilis-chadder]

Foul beast ate that adventurer whole, RIP

[bodhrancomedy]

Just some thoughts on historical Doctor Who companions from a very invested nerd.

Also, should this be a series?

[chic-a-gigot]

Le Figaro-modes, no. 38, février 1906, Paris. Modèle de la Maison Bernard et Cie, 33, avenue de l'Opéra. Photo Manuel. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

[artschoolglasses]

House of Worth Evening Dress, French, 1898-1900

From the Met Museum

[writhe]

doesn’t this make you feel absolutely wild

[avichyssoise]

Whoever conserved that textile has my respect.

[birdblogwhichisforbirds-deactiv]

@funereal-disease you’ve probably seen this but

[sartorialadventure]

This is Margaret Layton's conserved jacket.

Embroidered linen jackets were worn as informal dress, and were particularly popular among wealthy women in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This jacket is exquisitely decorated with flowers, birds and butterflies, embroidered in coloured silks, coiled tendrils of silver-gilt plaited braid stitch and silver-gilt sequins. The edges of the jacket are trimmed with silver and silver-gilt bobbin lace and silver-gilt spangles.

This jacket appears in a portrait of Margaret Layton which probably dates from around 1620 and is painted in oils on oak boards. The painter is not known, but the style of portraiture is similar to that of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (1561?–1635) who was the most fashionable portrait painter of the period.

Both the jacket and the portrait are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, who formally acquired them in 1994.

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[frostedmagnolias]

Blue Hydrangeas Dress

c. 1896-1906

silk, tulle, sequins, gemstones

French

Palais Galliera

[historicaldress]

FRENCH GAUZE GOWN with TIPPET, 1828

Cinnabar silk gauze having short, puffed satin sleeve with scalloped gauze ruffles trimmed in satin rouleaux, satin waistband, full skirt decorated with bands of rouleaux and satin-trimmed gauze bows, padded hem.

[cooking-with-hailstones]

Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

[escapismsworld]

Afternoon dress, 1891.

Wool with velvet accents & red braid edging.

© University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library. Credit UNT College of Visual Arts & Design.

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 26, 1 juillet 1906, Paris. Toilette Empire. Mod. de Chéruit, ancienne Maison Raudnitz et Cie, 21. place Vendôme. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Description de la gravure coloriée:

Cette toilette, exécutée en voile gris-bleu, est garnie dans le bas de riches broderies. remontant en partie jusqu'à mi-hauteur de la jupe; celle-ci est montée sur un empiècement descendant très bas et agrémenté de broderie. On masque la jonction sous une draperie croisée devant. L'empiècement est ouvert sur une guimpe en batiste brodée, rehaussée de Valenciennes; on ferme la guimpe par une cordelière passée à travers des boutonnières festonnées.

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This dress, executed in gray-blue voile, is trimmed at the bottom with rich embroidery. partly rising halfway up the skirt; it is mounted on a very low down yoke and embellished with embroidery. We hide the junction under a drapery crossed in front. The yoke is open on an embroidered cambric skirt, enhanced with Valenciennes; the skirt is closed with a cord passed through scalloped buttonholes.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Pelisse

1835-1840

United States or England

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum (Object Number: 1996-273

[costumeloverz71]

Dress, c. 1897

[evermore-fashion]

[jeannepompadour]

Dress worn by comtesse Greffulhe, née Élisabeth de Caraman-Chimay, designed by Charles Frederick Worth, 1896

[chilope]

i cant truly explain why but i almost cried yesterday while talking to a woman who studies medieval rus goldwork embroidery, who explained that there is a very particular method that is used to do goldwork embroidery called couching that keeps the thread on the top of the fabric (compared to normal embroidery techniques, where the thread goes over and under the fabric for each stitch) to conserve the very expensive gold thread and this technique is seen historically on more or less all examples of goldwork pieces commissioned by the church, nobility, or chivalric orders from goldwork guilds. however, rural gravesites reveal that lots of people, not just the wealthy, owned a small piece or two of goldwork embroidery, usually collars or cuffs, that were made by someone they knew. these pieces were almost universally made using typical embroidery techniques, meaning they used up twice the gold thread. something about the idea of people, so long ago, saving up to make something beautiful and expensive and special for someone they love, even lacking the specialized knowledge to do it the "proper" way, is so human to me.

[mirdania]