Sarah Goethe-Jones

Costume Designer. Fashion & Dance History. Dancer.

[Petronella Wyatt @PetronellaWyatt]

The extraordinarily beautiful waltz scene in 1949’s “Madame Bovary”, starring Jennifer Jones, Van Heflin and Louis Jordan. Jordan, as the caddish Rodolphe, literally sweeps Jones’ Emma Bovary off her feet.

[Lost London @Lost___London]

Soon, London's last Medieval market will be gone.

Please share and make other aware of this unjust tragedy. Thank you 🤝

[Dr Kate Strasdin @kateStrasdin]

One of my favourite images of Alexandra Princess of Wales catches her in the 1880s on board the royal yacht in what is likely a tailormade by John Redfern. The sailor suit is recreated in Redfern’s immaculate construction. You can read more in Dressing the Queen! Jacket @V_and_A

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

Jewels Lost Forever

In May 1887, the French Crown Jewels went to the auction block. The government feared their royal power, so they sold them off to erase the monarchy's ghost.

Michel Berthaud’s haunting photographs are the final glimpse of this lost empire.

Dismantled and scattered across the world forever.

[Aurora @CitizenScreen]

Carmen Miranda showing off part of her collection of platform shoes in 1944.

[Forever Louise Brooks @ForeverLouiseB1]

Joan Blondell and Ginger Rogers in the pre-Code lingerie-centric backstage drama Broadway Bad (1933).

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

A Scottish Highland cow, just 2 hours old. 🤗🤗

[Maude Frome @frome_maude]

Pauline Waiting by Herbert James Gunn RA, 1939.

The artist’s immaculately dressed second wife, waiting for someone at Claridges in #London. The painting suggests not only anticipation but also mystery.
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday

[Dr Kate Strasdin @kateStrasdin]

A starry night walking home at the weekend reminded me of this fancy dress costume worn by Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1926, a dark sky chock full of beaded stars plus all of the sparkly accessories @HillwoodMuseum #FashionHistory

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

🛗 New lifts open at Buckingham Palace!

As well as replacing core building services, the Reservicing Programme has completed lots of improvements to accessibility since it began in 2017. 👩‍🦼‍➡️

Watch the full film: https://t.co/ld1vbZCMbL

[Petronella Wyatt @PetronellaWyatt]

Norma Shearer in the most outre pre-Code costume I have ever seen.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1998, Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia arrived at Balmoral Castle for a scheduled state visit with the Queen.

He was the de facto ruler of the world's largest oil exporter, a man accustomed to protocol flowing in a particular direction. Every detail of the visit had been arranged in advance.

Then the Queen suggested a drive around the estate.

She took the wheel of a Land Rover herself. According to an account later shared by a British diplomat who was present, what followed was not what the Crown Prince had anticipated. She drove at speed along the private roads of the Balmoral grounds, talking as she went. Abdullah, through his interpreter, reportedly asked her to slow down and pay attention to the road.

The Queen continued at her own pace.

There is something worth pausing on in that moment. In Saudi Arabia in 1998, women were legally prohibited from driving. The Crown Prince of a nation where that prohibition was official policy found himself unable to take the wheel, seated as a passenger while a woman drove him, fast, through the hills of Aberdeenshire.

The deeper layer: Elizabeth had been driving since the Second World War. In 1945, at eighteen, she enrolled in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, the British military branch that trained women in vehicle mechanics and military driving. She did not attend in a ceremonial capacity. She trained as a mechanic. She learned to drive military trucks.

The roads at Balmoral are private estate roads. No license required. She was, in the most precise sense, exactly where she had every right to be.

Abdullah became King of Saudi Arabia in 2005 and reigned until his death in January 2015. Saudi Arabia lifted its ban on women driving in June 2018, three years after his death.

The Queen outlived the ban.

She was still driving at Balmoral well into her nineties. More than seven decades behind the wheel. Scotland. Her roads. Her pace.

The anecdote was later recounted by a British diplomat and has since become one of the more retold stories about the Queen's private character. She kept a fleet of Land Rovers at Balmoral and was reportedly particular about driving herself rather than being driven, even in the final years of her reign.

#drthehistories

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

A fun day out for all the family.

[Petronella Wyatt @PetronellaWyatt]

Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth dance up a storm in 1942’s “You Were Never Lovelier” it was Hayworth’s big break in a musical. She said later, “Fred knew what those fools at Columbia didn’t; that I was a dancer.” Fred told friends that Rita was his favourite dancing partner,

[Forever Louise Brooks @ForeverLouiseB1]

Louise at fourteen, 1922. Dismissed from her local dance class for being “spoiled, bad tempered and insulting,” she wrote in her diary, “I am strong for new adventure. I must study and that means away to broader fields. I’ve had enough of teaching my teacher what to teach me.”

[Dr Kate Strasdin @kateStrasdin]

When I was 19, I vividly remember helping to mount a mourning dress belonging to Queen Victoria. Such was her silhouette that she seemed to emerge like a spectral figure. She forged longstanding relationships with dressmakers, many of whom appear in Dressing the Queen @LDN_Museum

[Jeffrey Ⓥ @LiftForever67]

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life, music and cats".

#Caturday
#CatsLover #CatsOfTwitter

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

If ever a silent star had that smoldering, in-control femme fatale look, it was Nita Naldi. The Irish-born lass named Mary Nonna Dooley, and her dark exotic look, appeared in film for just 7 years from 1920 -1927, most famously with Valentino in "Blood and Sand" (1922).

[NicDaisy @plummie9]

Louis-Michel Van Loo (1707 - 1771)

Portrait présumé de Melle Sallé, danseuse, 1737

@MuseeLouvre