- 1. Skirting the Issue: Indigenous Designer Agnes Woodward Is Raising Awareness With Her Garments
- (Style)
- When Agnes Woodward created the rainbow ribbon skirt that Deb Haaland wore at her ceremonial swearing-in as the first Indigenous American U.S. Secretary of the Interior in March, she didn’t tell anybody. ...
- Created on 13 September 2021
- 2. How Overzealous Research Landed A Cross-Dressing Victorian Writer In Jail
- (Feminism)
- ... “flounces and furbelows, ribbons and gauze, exhausting their fine imaginations, instead of diverting them into worthy channels.” In 1874, the fourth edition of Madre Natura was published. When arrested, ...
- Created on 09 October 2019
- 3. How Victorians Took To The Beach
- (Living)
- ... jacket and plain piqué skirt, and sash with ribbon ends, worn with a puffed chemisette and high piqué collar, and cravat (of silk, one inch wide, edged with black lace); while the Garibaldi jacket can ...
- Created on 24 July 2019
- 4. Embrace '90s Nostalgia This Halloween With These TV Character Costumes
- (Style)
- ... Etsy via CBS Vintage Moschino Ribbon Top, TrendListr, $109.04, via Etsy Vintage Moschino Polkadots Trucker Jacket, TheBBAclothingStore, $80, via Etsy 90s Black and Red Rayon Cropped Lightweight ...
- Created on 15 October 2018
- 5. Artist Patricia Fox Loves Dressing "Age Inappropriate
- (Style)
- ... is fabulous for daywear. I designed the headpiece and it’s made out of antique ribbons, hand-sewn by Carli Beardsley, a costume designer from Brooklyn. The socks are Paul Stuart and the shoes are Simone ...
- Created on 24 August 2018
- 6. Here's How Fashionable Women Dressed In The 1820
- (Style)
- ... at the beginning of the year were “short and full.” Meanwhile, flounces or borders of lace, ribbons, and flowers were all the rage. Below is a British ball gown made of silk satin and silk net, embroidered ...
- Created on 22 May 2018
- 7. Here's How European And American Women Dressed In The 1830
- (Style)
- ... pelisse-robes which fastened down one side in a series of ribbon knots were the height of fashion. While for the summer, pelisse-robes with open skirts and one or two flounces became a favored style of ...
- Created on 27 March 2018
- 8. My Period Envy
- (Living)
- ... a similar name, but the slender, soft, pink napkins that were specially designed for young girls. That box of Miss Debs might as well have been surrounded by tiny doves with pastel ribbons in their mouths. ...
- Created on 15 December 2017
- 9. How Victorian Women Styled Their Hair For Work And Everyday Life
- (Style)
- ... women of more moderate means stuck to more practical styles. These styles included firmly pinned plaits, simple chignons, and rolls bound up in a hair net or secured with a ribbon. In today’s post, we ...
- Created on 19 September 2017
- 10. Frida Kahlo's Life, Told In 9 Beautiful Illustration
- (Books)
- ... next to the rotund, unattractive Diego. She nicknamed him 'frog-toad.'" "Frida loved to overlay her outfits with beads, lace ribbons, and jewelry and to decorate her hands with myriad rings and bangles. ...
- Created on 07 October 2016
- 11. Here's What Victorian Women Wore To Play Tenni
- (Style)
- ... writes: “All ribbons, bows, in fact all fussiness should be dispensed with in the tennis costume. The simpler it is, the better." 1890 White Cotton Piqué Tennis Suit. (Image via Kyoto Costume Institute) ...
- Created on 14 September 2016
- 12. Forget Bikinis — Here's What Victorian Women Wore To The Beac
- (Style)
- ... a deep jacket and plain piqué skirt, and sash with ribbon ends, worn with a puffed chemisette and high piqué collar, and cravat (of silk, one inch wide, edged with black lace); while the Garibaldi jacket ...
- Created on 01 June 2016
- 13. Put on Your Fancy Pants: 7 Springtime Picks
- (Style)
- I am living for printed pants right now. They’re the androgynous alternative to flirty spring dresses and skirts, and they come in a wide range of styles that make them perfect for nearly every body type. ...
- Created on 14 May 2012
