Catriona Fisk

Dress and design historian, material culture researcher and museum-y person. PhD on the history of maternity wear 1750-1900, UTS.

[Catriona Fisk @cat_fisk]

Some thoughts on dressed pregnant bodies - a blog for the @auswhn histories of reproduction series. https://t.co/CL1g31XpFp

[Cazziecaz @scribblingninja]

@AndyWoodturner Some cyclists treat more vulnerable cyclists in exactly the way they ask drivers not to.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Southern Utah quietly canceled its match against the undefeated San Jose State. Why?

One can only assume it's because SJSU has a man posing as a woman on their team.

Good for Southern Utah for not participating in the farce. More of this👏🏼
https://t.co/zE9IdsDlEA

[Making Historical Dress Network @MakingHistDress]

To round off panel one, we have our very own @SarahABendall and @cat_fisk speaking about their collaborative project on maternity stays.

[London Review of Books @LRB]

‘I had spent years in the archives trying to gain some intimacy with the past, and suddenly there I was, being penetrated by the Enlightenment.’

@ErinMaglaque in our new issue:
https://t.co/eALZ70BiCk

[Australian Government @ausgov]

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[Catriona Fisk @cat_fisk]

@KHarveyHistory @amywilsonstorey @ExeterDoctoral Thanks Karen, feels like a good few years ago now but not quite that many!

[Catriona Fisk @cat_fisk]

@sjgknight Congratulations!

[Catriona Fisk @cat_fisk]

@RebeccaE_M @vt_isaac @FourRedShoes Whoops missed this (sorry all). Echo existing suggestions - Rauser’s essay and book (Chapter 3) deal with the specific early 1790s belly pad moment. Always fascinating, could never quite get my head around it!

[Catriona Fisk @cat_fisk]

@AldenBrien @AStitchinTime13 @girl_hermes @ladysmagproject @menysnoweballes V. similar, button rather than hook closure on the slits in lining. Where your white dress the opening comes out at the edge/side of the folds on the outer fabric (2nd pic), in this one there’s a corresponding slit in the middle of the outer fabric folds.

[Catriona Fisk @cat_fisk]

@girl_hermes @menysnoweballes Exactly right on the edges Imogen, that front panel is open along those sides, but it lifts up not down. One of the various forms of nursing concession/modification in dresses of the era, slits (like the one in Alden’s DAR example) most common in museum survivals

[Catriona Fisk @cat_fisk]

@jan_lanicek @RuthBalint Congrats!

[DrClaudineRouge1767 @rouge1767]

Finding this beautiful drawing of a breastfeeding mother and infant in a Parish register from Lyon, 1754 has made my day.
@ArchivesdeLyon @DrJulieHardwick @MeghanKRoberts @earlymodern
@histmed @historybeagle

[Catriona Fisk @cat_fisk]

@FourRedShoes YAY!! WELCOME HOME. Thank goodness (but not the gov).

[Catriona Fisk @cat_fisk]

https://t.co/uIq61ZOzRP

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Coming up this morning ... https://t.co/m9b55BTsdE

[Catriona Fisk @cat_fisk]

@SarahABendall Ha, good. Ready for any and all of your fake-bump questions.

[Catriona Fisk @cat_fisk]

@jesseadamsstein Argh no worries, but thank you. So happy to hear this news - you're amazing!!

[Catriona Fisk @cat_fisk]

@HstyMattersSyd @SarahABendall @LauraGowing @profrichmond @foxvshedgehog Most welcome. A long shot - but if she mentions anything about dress and childbearing do let me know!