- 1. Mackenzi Lee Breaks the Rules When It Comes to Personal Style
- (Style)
- ... designer Mina Kaye. I’m obsessed with the return of the ’90s, and by ’90s, I mean 1890s. The necklace is actually three necklaces that I layered on top of each other, which I’m becoming more confident ...
- Created on 22 February 2022
- 2. Looking At The Groundbreaking "Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians," Decades Later: BUST Intervie
- (Books)
- ... photography. And I traveled all over the country with it for many, many years. In that slideshow, which went from the, the 1890s, to the 1980s, there was a very popular segment that I called the look, ...
- Created on 12 March 2021
- 3. How Victorians Took To The Beach
- (Living)
- ... costumes that cling to the figure” like an “outer skin.” These tight-fitting seaside dresses gave way to the popular middy blouses (blouses with a sailor collar) and flared skirts of the 1890s. Below is ...
- Created on 24 July 2019
- 4. Mother Jones Was A Hell-Raising Trailblazer In The Fight For Workers' Rights
- (Feminism)
- ... this fight! Don’t surrender!” Active from the 1890s through the 1920s, Mother Jones worked tirelessly to persuade coal miners, brewery bottle washers, textile mill hands, and other laborers to fight ...
- Created on 30 January 2019
- 5. This Cap Was A Modest Necessity For 19th Century Women
- (Style)
- ... for young matrons and spinsters. Instead, by the early 1890s, day caps were largely worn only by the elderly. At the close of the century, even bonnets were beginning to fall by the wayside. As fashion ...
- Created on 28 November 2018
- 6. Victorians Wore These Elaborate Costumes To Fancy Dress Balls
- (Living)
- ... by the 1890s fancy dress balls were once again wildly popular. As author Herbert Norris explains in his 1933 book On Nineteenth-Century Costume and Fashion: “Towards the end of the century there was ...
- Created on 17 October 2018
- 7. The Queer Love Story At The Heart Of "Colette
- (Movies)
- ... of gender and sexuality on the real Mathilde de Morny. If she lived in 2018, Missy might identify as a trans man or a butch lesbian (or genderqueer or nonbinary), but in the 1890s, the language wasn't there ...
- Created on 21 September 2018
- 8. "Colette" Puts A Queer, Feminist Spin On A Keira Knightley Period Dram
- (Movies)
- Keira Knightley gets corseted up once again for this biopic of the French author Colette. We first meet Colette in the 1890s; she is then a young country girl named Gabrielle who is about to be married ...
- Created on 20 September 2018
- 9. Victorians Had Standards Of Beauty For The Elbows
- (Style)
- ... 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s, could often have up to fifteen or even twenty buttons. However, even though it was possible to disguise an elbow with a long glove, fashion magazines of the day advised that it ...
- Created on 05 September 2018
- 10. Alexandra Of Denmark Had SO MANY DOGS
- (Living)
- ... Spitz’s, Bassets, and collies come jumping and barking around.” The Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra, with a small dog, 1890s (Royal Collection Trust) Though the Queen was devoted to all her ...
- Created on 15 November 2017
- 11. Fashionable Victorians Wore Pumpkin Orange For Fall
- (Style)
- ... reports: “We have recently seen some decorated with shaded orange ribbons, the shades varying from the deepest to the palest shade of range.” 1890s Straw Hat. (Met Museum) Some hats and bonnets ...
- Created on 26 September 2017
- 12. Here's What Fashionable Men Dressed Like In The 1800
- (Style)
- ... Wedding Suit with Cutaway Coat. (Philadelphia Museum of Art) 1890 Moving into the 1890s, the morning coat began to rival the frock coat for formal day wear. For informal occasions, the sack coat remained ...
- Created on 06 September 2017
- 13. This 19th Century Luxury Dog Club Was Like Soho House For Pups
- (Living)
- “The fact is, mere ordinary folk have not the remotest notion of the extravagant extent to which canine pets are pampered nowadays by their highly-placed mistresses.” - The Strand Magazine, 1896. ...
- Created on 19 July 2017
- 14. Was Lady Godiva Real?
- (Arts)
- ... on MimiMatthews.com and is reprinted here with permission. More from BUST In The 1890s, Fashionable Dogs Wore Canine Couture Created By A Parisian Designer Behind The 19th Century Obsession With ...
- Created on 12 July 2017
- 15. Behind The 19th Century Obsession With Auburn Hair
- (Style)
- “Her friends call her hair auburn, but her enemies call it red.” - Sylvia’s Book of the Toilet, 1881. Auburn hair has long been admired for its beauty. In the sixteenth century, Titian famously painted ...
- Created on 05 July 2017
- 16. Victorians Loved Violet Perfume So Much That One Woman Even Went To Jail For It
- (Style)
- ... the reigning fragrance of the 1890s. It was used to scent perfumes, toilet water, soaps, cold cream, sachets, and tooth powder. According to one druggist quoted in the 1898 edition of the Spatula: “The ...
- Created on 28 June 2017
- 17. In The 1890s, Fashionable Dogs Wore Canine Haute Couture Created By A Parisian Designer
- (Entertainment)
- “A dog is more difficult to dress than a lady, however capricious she may be.” - M. Vivier, Pearson’s Magazine, 1898. Wealthy and aristocratic ladies of the 1890s who desired to dress their dogs ...
- Created on 21 June 2017
- 18. Before Millennial Pink, There Was Victorian Yellow
- (Style)
- ... from the 1890s are a perfect example of just how striking a pair of bright yellow shoes could be. 1890-1899 J. Ferry Silk Evening Slippers. (Met Museum) Evening slippers were generally made of silk ...
- Created on 06 May 2017
- 19. The Fascinating History Of The Easter Bunny
- (Living)
- ... hares lay the Easter eggs,’ is never doubted by the little ones.” Belief in the Easter bunny may have been a little slow in getting started in the United States and England, but by the 1890s, Beard reports ...
- Created on 12 April 2017
- 20. Before Cars, There Were High Speed Bicycle Chases
- (Living)
- ... had both emigrated to America from London in the early 1890s. One of these men was a farmer named Mr. Haggett who settled down with his family on a farm near Somerville. The other man was a fellow named ...
- Created on 15 March 2017
