Shelley Tobin

Dress historian/NT & RAMM fashion/textiles curator/bookreviews ed @dresshistorians. Mum/cat staff/loves nature & dancing. Thinking out loud/Send me book news!

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

Sparkling fun to come at a 1920s garden party a week tomorrow 🥂
Book via QR or https://t.co/R4DW4dyeyA

[Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock]

Happy Saint David's Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
The traditional image of Welsh 'national' dress of a woman in a red cloak and tall black hat evolved from the everyday clothing worn by rural women, such as this dark blue and red striped wool bedgown. @StFagans_Museum #fashionhistory © Amgueddfa Cymru

[Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock]

New exhibition! 📣 Opening at @SomersetRLM during #womenshistorymonth, Strength and Resilience: Somerset Women in the Second World War spotlights the work undertaken by 4 amazing women during the conflict and subsequent peace process - including photographer Lee Miller #exhibiton

[Duille @DuilleDesign]

Six panel screen. Eileen Gray. c.1925.
Image: Christie's.

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

Oh for a cosy quilted dressing gown and a lacy bed jacket. French fashion plate, 1920s, via Alamy

[The Bowes Museum @TheBowesMuseum]

Coming Soon: Joséphine: A Woman of Taste and Fashion.

Opening 22 March at The Bowes Museum, this exhibition showcases historic textiles, Joséphine Bowes’ personal fashion, and couture from YSL, Schiaparelli & more.

Don’t miss this glimpse into the timeless world of fashion.

[NicDaisy @plummie9]

Europe

Silk shoes, c.1830.

'Embroidered...a slightly rounded square toes and no heel. They are straights. That means there is no distinction between the shoes for the left or right foot.' ©@RAMMuseum
#FashionHistory

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

Coming soon...

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

A portrait of 22 year old Norman Hartnell in 1923, he'd recently opened his Bruton Street salon. Languid drapery and elegantly handled, absolutely huge ostrich feather fans were the thing.

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

A very colourful fashion image by magazine illustrator Harold Hookway Cowles (1896-1987). The wardrobe neatly shows a variety of silhouettes to choose from, around the mid 1920s. Short, short 'Eton crop' hairstyles and straight Cuban heels on shoes arrived c. 1926 too.

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

See more in #Unflappable, fashioning the 1920s at #Killerton #NationalTrust until 2 November 2025. Plenty of time to get down to Devon to join the party!

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

Well, we're open. A bit of a Pepper's ghost scenario going on here...the linen dress is hand-painted, a canvas to wear, the silk dress a version of a Liberty smocked day dress. Are you team linen or team silk? #1920s #Unflappable #Fashion #fashionhistory

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

A raft of Paramount Studio's stars, Hollywood sets the trend for hairstyles and fashion. I think BeBe Daniels is my favourite too

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

Paramount Studies and their Bobbed Stars...1926. It was Bebe Daniels - very popular at the time, who claimed the center spot........

[Lauren Deutsch @LaurenCDeutsch]

For this week's #SaturdayLBD is this 1927 dress made of silk gelatin sequins, and glass and plastic beads. The tear-shaped sequins are on a ribbon that is applied to the dress with one string so it would flap and swing as a woman danced. Gorgeous. #Fashionhistory #ootd

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

6 days to go!

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

Coming soon...detail of 1920s evening coat, woven metal threads lined with silk, embroidered with sequins. Only 15 days to opening! See #Unflappable Fashioning the 1920s at #Killerton #NationalTrust from Saturday February 15.

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

'Wear wool and be well'...it's been so cold and dark lately, I'd be quite happy with one of these fairisle sports knits. The pattern published by Patons and Baldwins in the #1920s is part of the @RAMMuseum collection. The strapline about wool conducting UV rays caught my eye

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

Evening dress, 1900-25. United States. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

[Shelley Tobin @PrincessHamira]

Actress Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952) in a sketch by Norman Hartnell (1901-1979), a design for some novel sleeves on a low backed dress signed 1929. We look forward to sharing more with you when our new exhibition #Unflappable, fashioning the 1920s opens in 10 days! #Killerton

[Catherine Curzon @MadameGilflurt]

Because a shoe’s not a shoe unless it’s a pineapple. #frockingFabulous Spitalfields shoes, 1735, via the V&A. #fashionhistory

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungurrayi Granites paints the great Warlpiri story of the Seven Sisters Dreaming, about the ancestral Napaljarri sisters who are found in the night sky in the star cluster known as the Pleiades #WomensArt