Mary Agnes

View from my balcony is my muse...adore books,faerie, history,art,fairness,people, animals,teaching,mountains,sea,film,💕on Larrakia land

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

This magical bewitching painting by Vermeer - I always feel like time is distilled somehow, maybe it's the pearl's lustre...

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

an accidental scrunchie

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

Love this, the idea of having a dress “for best,” like my childhood “Sunday dress.” 👗

[Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock]

American singer Patsy Cline was born #OnThisDay in 1932. She wore this hand-embellished black sequined cocktail dress on the cover of The Legend of Patsy Cline album and for numerous performances. It has a 'Maison/Mendessolle/San Francisco' label. @ChristiesInc #fashionhistory

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

@robynbryant33 my nana’s rolling pin

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

@SundayFolklore @ztevetevans Thank you too 💫

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

Birdsong

[癒しのお届け便 📦【動物】 @Bakutan_bot1]

ミソサザイのさえずり
おそらく史上最高の癒し効果を秘めています。
最高峰の振動周波数をお楽しみください😌

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

I wonder if there were any who resisted?

[NicDaisy @plummie9]

American

Pretty Evening Dress, c. 1855

Floral printed silk taffeta, pink satin, white linen, chenille, and ribbon. Silk lining.

" By the 1850s, the fashionable silhouette had reached extreme proportions, thanks to the crinoline. The floral motif and delicate scalloped ribbon of this dress further exemplify how women’s clothing diverged from men’s clothing. While tailored men’s suits project rationalism and power, women’s wear became increasingly associated with ornamentation and “frivolity.” "

@FIT
#FashionHistory

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

@MaryNicholls19 @robynbryant33 why 72 and not 88?

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

@GailWilson6 @robynbryant33 wondering if the pattern is also putting the largest number in the left too?

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

Picnic at Hanging Rock #FolkloreSunday
image credit: Peter Weir, Picnic at Hanging Rock (still), 1975; image: courtesy Janus Films

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

Adore the sea and myrtle greens that can be bluish, a cold deepness of colour

[helen warlow @helen_warlow]

Love green and the names here are so lovely.
Nowadays I think names of paint ate competitive and complicated @helen_warlow

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

If I wore these I would never make it to bed.

[Catherine Curzon @MadameGilflurt]

For my birthday week, we’re toasting some #frockingfabulous greatest hits from 2026! #HanaeMori's showstopping Chrysanthemum Pyjamas is #Fashionhistory of 1966, via the Iwami Art Museum.

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

@TheScribblerCMB Eager
Mischievous
Magnificent
Absorbing

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

@bettanyhughes The Trojan Horse

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

A flow chart that spells it out

[JK @julian_keil]

This is fantastic. 👇

Why are the cartoonists the only ones doing the ‘heavy lifting’ on these issues?!

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

A delightful find; I did not know this.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Tabac Opposite Palais de Justice' ( c.1956) one of the many pen and ink sketches by US poet Sylvia Plath #WomensArt

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

A psychology in dress. 🟣🟪🪻

[Dr Kate Strasdin @kateStrasdin]

If dresses could talk what might this half mourning gown say? Its vibrancy suggests a stage of life emerging from the etiquette of c19th grief, somebody constrained by respectability but only just. I hope she moved on to even brighter things. Mid 1890s @metmuseum #fashionhistory

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

sugarplum spun elegance

[Dr Kate Strasdin @kateStrasdin]

A Dior dress called Cuba that draws on the aesthetics of ballet, layers of pink silk tulle coupled with a textured gold bodice. It was part of the 1954 H line collection, seen as a departure from earlier silhouettes @NGVMelbourne #fashionhistory

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

Messy cat spats and sillies, joyful

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

Home is where the cat is

🎨 Jane Crowther

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

Those intricate pleats and gum nut bells

[Dr Kate Strasdin @kateStrasdin]

For some reason this is one of the most memorable of Queen Elizabeth’s ensembles for me. I was only three years old when she wore it for her Silver jubilee in 1977 so perhaps I have some childhood recollection of it. It was designed by Hardy Amies @RCT #fashionhistory

[Mary Agnes @agnes_saint]

Hear hear!

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Someone asked me to name a politician with a background relevant to their portfolio in response to my critique of Pauline HANSEN’s appalling performance in Parliament.
Here’s just a few:
Jim Chalmers — Treasurer. PhD in Political Science & International Relations (ANU). First class honours in public policy. Former Chief of Staff to the Federal Treasurer. The only minister with a PhD across two parliaments. Inherited a massive Liberal deficit — delivered the two biggest back-to-back budget surpluses in Australian history. First consecutive surpluses in nearly 20 years.
Michelle Rowland — Attorney-General. Senior telecommunications lawyer at Gilbert + Tobin before parliament.
Mark Butler — Health & NDIS. Arts/Law degree. Led health and aged care policy across multiple governments. Former union secretary representing healthcare workers.
Dr Anne Aly — Small Business & International Development. PhD in counter-terrorism. Professor at two universities. 100+ published academic papers. Founded Australia’s first anti-extremism NGO. Advised the UN Security Council. Spoke at Obama’s White House counter-terrorism summit. Also ran her own policy consulting firm — actual small business experience.
Daniel Mulino — Assistant Treasurer. PhD in Economics from Yale.
Larissa Waters — Greens leader, Environment. Bachelor of Science + Law. Environmental lawyer for a decade before parliament.
Dr Mehreen Faruqi — Greens. Civil engineer with a PhD. Practising environmental engineer before politics.
David Shoebridge — Greens, Justice. Honours Law degree, Sydney University. Former barrister and solicitor. Family Court associate. Directly relevant to his justice portfolio — and one of the few senators actually holding the government to account on arms exports to Israel.
David Pocock — Independent ACT Senator. Masters in Sustainable Agriculture. Former Wallabies captain. Conservationist. Co-founded multiple not-for-profits. Involved in small businesses. One of the most effective crossbenchers in the Senate.

Pauline Hanson — self-appointed expert on immigration, Islam, Indigenous affairs, and everything else. Ran a fish and chip shop. Found guilty by the Federal Court in 2024 of racially vilifying Dr Mehreen Faruqi — a PhD engineer — by telling her to ‘piss off back to Pakistan.’
Currently appealing the decision.

I’ll take the qualifications thanks