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• Advent Calendar – Day Twelve

  

  Evening ensemble, Marguerite Robes (Paris), c1865. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. I have a most fabulous Parisian evening ensemble from 1865 behin... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Eleven

  

  Evening gown, France, c1860-1. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, New York.I have to admit that I’m more than a bit in love with this dress... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Wedding Dresses 1775-2014 at the Victoria and Albert Museum

  

  Wedding dress, Gladman Womack (London), 1885. Photo: Victoria and Albert Museum, London.As I’ve said before, I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Ten

  

  Evening gown, French, c1805-10. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, New York.Behind the tenth window of my advent calendar there is this... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Nine

  

  Evening ensemble, Philippe and Gaston (France), c1925. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, New York.Maybe I’ve been inspired by all the... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Madame Du Barry, 8th December 1793

  

  Madame du Barry, Richard Cosway, 1790s.On this day in 1793, Madame du Barry, the final mistress of Louis XV was taken from her cell in the Conciergerie, whence... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Eight

  

  Evening dress, R.H White and Co (Boston), American, 1885. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, New York.Behind the eighth window of my rather... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Seven

  

  Ball gown, Pingat et Cle, Paris, c1860. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, New York.On the seventh day of Advent, I have for you this most... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Georgian Fun at the Historic Royal Palaces

  

  If like me, you go all a flutter at the very thought of the Georgian period then you’re in for a right old treat in 2014 when both the Royal Collection and... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Portrait of the Week – Marie Adélaïde De Savoie

  

  Marie Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne in front of the grand canal at Fontainebleau, 1704. Photo: Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Six

  

  Balmain evening gown, 1950-5. Photo: Victoria and Albert Museum, London.Now, although my own sartorial preference tends towards the black and gothic, I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Save Ripper Street!

  

  You don’t need to be much more than even a casual reader of this blog to know that I am a MASSIVE fan of the BBC drama series Ripper Street, which focuses on th... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Five

  

  Robe à la Française, French, 1770-5. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, New York.There’s been a decided emphasis on nineteenth and early... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Madame Récamier

  

  , Gérard, 1805. Photo: Melanie Clegg/Musée Carnavalet.The gorgeous brunette Jeanne-Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, better known as Juliette, Madame Récamier,... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Four

  

  Ball gown, House of Paquin, 1895. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, New York. I’m partially regretting starting this advent calendar... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Party Time at Kensington Palace!

  

  Apparently I am now the Queen of the North. All bow before me! Sometimes I think that I must have the most brilliant job in all the world – especially after... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Three

  

  Evening dress, House of Worth, 1902. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, New York.Wow, this month really seems to be going by in a flash,... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day Two

  

  ‘Venus’, Dior, A/W 1949-50. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Costume Institute.Today’s advent calendar dress is this very special Dior offering with frothy... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Advent Calendar – Day One

  

  Evening dress, Chanel, c1932. Photos: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. On the first day of Christmas, Madame Guillotine gave to me: a Chanel dress in... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY

• Dress of the Week – Maria Feodorovna

  

  The Empress Maria Feodorovna, wife of the Emperor Alexander III, sister of Queen Alexandra of England and mother of Nicholas II was born at the Yellow Palace i... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, HISTORY