Cassidy Percoco

Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. @[email protected]
(she/her)

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

A thread to collect all of my threads: a bolt of fabric, if you will 🪡🧵

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

About to start again for today! https://t.co/ij2QRMlxdZ

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

Today I'm live tweeting the Sewn in America symposium at the DAR Museum over on BlueSky at https://t.co/ij2QRMlxdZ !

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

Today I'm live tweeting the Sewn in America symposium at the DAR Museum over on BlueSky at https://t.co/ij2QRMlxdZ !

[Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik]

Here's new artwork I’ve done for the tabletop RPG DANDIES & DANDYZETTES! This is my rendition of one of our backers, Sid, in a dramatic gown, to illustrate the world of the theatre #dandiesanddandyzettes #regencyactress #ttrpg #rpg #kickstarter #bridgerton #regencyengland
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[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@CoraCHarrington There's an infamous bad history post from Tumblr that does exactly this. I wonder if the person in the screenshot came across it ...

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@CoraCHarrington I think it's modern. The boning channels are all so wide (like they're for uniform modern boning) and the stitching across the bust gores looks like it's done on a machine. There doesn't appear to be a busk pocket, just a few pieces of boning at center front.

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@jbenmenachem This happens to every job and every field of study - it's just the one only notices it as a problem when it happens to one's own.

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@jbenmenachem @ASPertierra Every single person who claims historians are making things up, making history too woke, tearing down the Founding Fathers, etc. is doing this. It is constant.

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@ayahnaaragon @lingerie_addict And also, a woman critiquing other women's clothes with the same tone as menswear guy would inspire masses of discourse about how she's a mean girl and people should wear what they like etc etc

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@lenathehyena @the_museumfolk I'm not saying that everyone who "comes up from the ranks" fails to learn these skills, or that all MBAs have them. But in my experience, as someone coming up from the ranks and having to learn these things on my own on the fly, it's really hard to do so.

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@lenathehyena @the_museumfolk The issue isn't a lack of ruthlessness but the opposite, really: many people who work in museums as experts and not managers do not learn how not to micromanage or to correct without being unkind.

[Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik]

Happy #BRIDGERTON Day! The Vauxhall final for DANDIES & DANDYZETTES is at last complete. In the famous #Vauxhall pleasure gardens, as musicians play and the whale oil lamps shine, people flirt and dance and fight in a whirl of activity. #dandiesanddandyzettes #ttrpg #kickstarter

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@lenathehyena @the_museumfolk A director doesn't need a comprehensive subject matter understanding of their museum's collection. They need to be able to manage a curator under them who can handle that, and to deal with the interpersonal politics of museum departments.

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@lenathehyena @the_museumfolk But the question is, how often do those without people skills promoted into a position where they need them proactively recognize "whoa, I'm handling my staff really badly, I'd better improve myself"? Because once promoted, they're in a position where nobody else can tell them.

[The Siècle history podcast @TheSiecle]

Viral posts sometimes claim that the French Revolution banned women's pockets so they couldn't hide weapons to assassinate men.

Total BS, writes fashion historian @mimicofmodes for @askhistorians: https://t.co/JDcMhM96pS

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@kiriuminc @emrazz You think men invented textiles?

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

I watched "The New Look", and had some thoughts on the way that Coco Chanel is portrayed. Better than it could be, but worse than it should be.

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[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@mattzollerseitz I realize that this sounds like bitchy nitpicking, but costuming, hair, and makeup are usually pretty reflective of the period when the film was made, esp the latter two. The Great Hairpin Shortage is a common plague.

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@mattzollerseitz In fairness, that's never the *one* thing they absolutely refuse to do accurately. I've never seen anything that was entirely accurate apart from the eyebrows.

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

Now that BlueSky is open, if you join up, come and find me! https://t.co/ij2QRMlxdZ

[Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes]

@lingerie_addict One of my classmates did that, and unfortunately the professor didn't realize until the end of the course. 😬