Shelley Tobin

It's the little peripheral things, ephemeral stuff, aka @PrincessHamira. Posts about fashion and dress history here. Find more @fashionfuturefashionpast on IG

[Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock]

Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, was born #OnThisDay in 1872. She was photographed by Gustav William Henry Mullins in August 1894, prior to her marriage to Tsar Nicholas II, wearing this German-made pink silk and chiffon gown. @state_hermitage collection. #fashionhistory

[Catherine Curzon @MadameGilflurt]

The #Frockingfabulous #QueenElizabethII was crowned at Westminster Abbey on this day in 1953. On the left, the glove Elizabeth I wore at her Westminster Abbey coronation in 1559, via Dents Museum Collection. Note the fashionably graceful, elongated fingers. On the right, that worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her own coronation, via the Glove Collection Trust.

[Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock]

American-born French dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker was born #OnThisDay in 1906. This cut-out mesh costume, embellished with a scalloped design of metal beads, textured sequins and rhinestones, was worn by Baker in the 1930s. Sold by @KerryTaylorAuct. #fashionhistory

[Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock]

Edward, Duke of Windsor, married Wallis Simpson #OnThisDay in 1937. He wore a herringbone cashmere morning coat by Scholte with a Hawes & Curtis blue and white pinstriped shirt and trousers by Forster & Son for the ceremony at Château de Candé. Sold by @Sothebys. #fashionhistory

[Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock]

Queen Victoria was born #OnThisDay in 1819. This c. 1843 cream silk satin dress, with embroidered panels of silk flowers on the skirt, is believed to have been worn by the Queen. I still have to pinch myself that I get to work with the @HRP_palaces collection! #fashionhistory

[Lauren Deutsch @LaurenCDeutsch]

For this week's #FridayFrills, we have this 1957 Dior "Blandine" dress. The short cocktail dress has sweet details like the bows on the bodice straps that criss cross on the back. This dress was most likely worn by Victoire Doutreleau on the runway as it is to her measurements.

[Shelley Tobin @DressCurator]

Thinking about collections as reliquaries, repositories of memory and more. Here an image of a case showing 'Anna Pavlova's relics in London Museum', from Dandré's Anna Pavlova in Art and Life (1932). Ivy House collection sold & dispersed in 2022
https://t.co/eC2baHfOgZ / MoL

[Lucy Paquette @HammockAuthor]

Pâquerettes (Daisies) 1894

by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French 1825-1905)

Private collection

[Financial Times @FT]

Next week, Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style, a landmark exhibition of the late Queen’s fashion opens at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.

The exhibition represents the largest display of the Queen’s fashion ever staged: https://t.co/dBn65AdYL4

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

Evening dress by by Jean Patou, 1924. Kunstmuseum den Haag

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

The weirdness that is vintage Easter cards

[Alexandra Epps @ArtGuideAlex]

Moomin Easter..
#ToveJansson #HappyEaster

[Shelley Tobin @DressCurator]

@HMRCcustomers Thank you. I believe it to be incorrect. Is there a contact address I can write to?

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

Hand painted

[VenetiaJane's Garden @VenetiaJane]

The daisy, April’s birth flower, takes its name from the Old English “dæges ēage”, meaning “day’s eye”, for it opens with the light and closes again at dusk. Its Latin name, Bellis perennis, means “everlasting beauty”. #FolkloreThursday

[Catherine Curzon @MadameGilflurt]

#Shoetiful and entirely #frockingfabulous! Hellstern & Sons, c.1930s, via the Fashion Museum, Bath #Fashionhistory

[Shelley Tobin @DressCurator]

Congratulations to @kateStrasdin
, can't wait to read it!

[Dr Kate Strasdin @kateStrasdin]

All the flowers for publication day! Some sequinned sprinkled over Norman Hartnell’s 1957 state gown for the Queen and some in real life from my wonderful publisher @ChattoBooks. Thank you for all of the support! I feel very lucky indeed @RCT #fashionhistory

[Fashion Museum Bath @Fashion_Museum]

Friday Treat Time and we’re stepping into spring with this super selection of earrings from our jewellery collection. Statement clip-on earrings gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s with fashionable pinned back hair styles providing ample opportunity for elegant earwear.

[Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock]

English businesswoman and diarist Anne Lister was born #OnThisDay in 1791. Suranne Jones wore this Tom Pye designed military-inspired 1830s-style pelisse robe of navy ribbed wool with black velvet capelet as Anne in series 2 of Gentlemen Jack. @KerryTaylorAuct #dress #costume

[Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery]

Good Friday and at first light, Old Fox walked to the Sheep church up on the Downs. It was dark inside, lit by a single oil lamp, the altars stripped and scoured with hyssop, & deserted but for an elderly hare in the front pew. He was wiping tears away.
It's all so hard, he said.
I know, said Old Fox & went to sit with him.