Fashion and Textile History
People who are doing fashion and/or textile history, either academically or through recreation or something in between.
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@lezotte.bsky.social
Historian of dress, race, sex, gender, and capitalism. Author of From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies. Writing about more dress stuff, at balls and brothels, on Wall Street and in night clubs.
@markoconnellstudio.bsky.social
Professor at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto. Research areas: fashion history; Queer history; visual culture; transglobal commodities that shaped colonial societies, and fashion tech. Publications: markoconnellstudio.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1027-9338
@robyneerica.bsky.social
Cultural Historian: art, design, architecture, fashion. Author: The Mack @YaleBooks; Academic & Learning Developer (SLD) @UofGlasgow. Feminist & aspire to be a good Ally. Sewist 🪡🧵 Kdrama Addict🫰and GenX Nerd 🧙🏻♀️👻☕️ she/her https://robynecalvert.com/
@aldenobrien.bsky.social
Dress/social historian. Passionately pro-democracy. Cat fosterer. 🔵 Nuff said for now.
@addressingart.bsky.social
Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.
@19cdandtreframed.bsky.social
A network for new approaches to the study of dress and textiles in the long 19th century (1790 – 1914). https://c19thdressandtextilesreframed.wordpress.com
@katestrasdin.bsky.social
Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
@bronwync.bsky.social
Dress historian and historical dressmaker esp. 19th-early 20th centuries every day dress | Spinner, weaver, knitter, quilter, maker of things | Also novelist (as Bronwyn Parry | Australian | Social justice matters stitchinghistory.com bronwynparry.com
@cheekytea-magic.bsky.social
Maybe I’ll have some cheeky tea magic. Maybe I will continue to spew word vomit. Who knows, it’s a fresh start! Likes: fashion, literature, music, birds and other creatures, pop culture, politics.
@rebeccaem.bsky.social
Historian of eighteenth-century dress, dressmaking, and theatrical costume design. Also known to experiment with recreative practice.
@jennscott1485.bsky.social
Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750. https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php
@kittycalash.bsky.social
Literally one woman talking about cataloging discrepancies in museums. Also history, dress, material culture, and my cat. she/her/hers BAL via ALX/PVD
@laurencdeutsch.bsky.social
A book fanatic with an unhealthy amount of knowledge about Russian Lit, Jane Austen, and Lotrs. This is my platform to post daily about fashion history.
@janeym.bsky.social
Historian | 20th C design & material culture | Researching textiles, climate & weathering; fashion, politics & statecraft; also everyday militarisms, mostly uniforms | Design Cultures @VU Amsterdam | immigrant | 🇮🇪 in 🇳🇱
@knitwhitted.bsky.social
she/her | History PhD candidate at UMass Amherst | let's talk textiles
@vickyhaddock.bsky.social
Dress and design historian. Museum professional. DATS Wales & West Representative. Views my own.
@sheilaghquaile.bsky.social
Historian of 19thC #textiles, #design, and #art; #Scotland, #Britain, and the #BritishEmpire. • Adjunct Prof., University of Prince Edward Island. • Writing a book on #Paisley design for Edinburgh University Press.
@glensidetwo2.bsky.social
Aka Filao #NHSPensioner 💙 UK Neurodivergent. #FBPE Despises Tories. Supports US #Resisters 📎 🏳️⚧️ ally Solidarité 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 She/her. No DMs 🚫. No Alt Text = no engagement Profile pic by https://maggiemagoodesigns.com/ Banner: Cadiz skyline photo by me.
@beadnell-miller.bsky.social
Fashion historian/curator/researcher meets pattern cutter/materials anthropologist/experimental archaeologist - investigating the wearers of historic garments through reconstruction.
@natalienudell.bsky.social
Fashion and textile historian (FIT) Director of the Fashion Calendar Research Database fashioncalendar.fitnyc.edu Writer and producer of the documentary “Calendar Girl” Author of “In American Fashion, Ruth Finley’s Fashion Calendar”
@miasato.bsky.social
reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
@petrulis.bsky.social
History prof, Education Univ. of Hong Kong Capitalism & 'race' across US-Asia; banjos & jawbones; Perry expedition Read my article: “A Country of Hair”: ROK Wigs, Kor Am Entrepreneurs, Af Am Hairstyles, & Cold War Industrialization https://bit.ly/3PENmX0
@lisagdub.bsky.social
Historian of architecture & material culture; Programme Leader MA Design History Material Culture, NCAD, Dublin. Researching architectural-material history of Royal Hospital Kilmainham [also: tropical modern architecture; Catholicism; medical instruments]
@einavrfox.bsky.social
Historian. Curator. Writer. Looking at connections between culture and politics. Especially fashion. Author of Dressed for Freedom. Principal Editor of Dress. www.einavrabinovitchfox.com
@cloakandtailor.bsky.social
Maker of corsets and assorted historic, vintage, and bespoke clothes. Textile and fashion history. Toronto, Canada. Email: cloakandtailor @ gmail (.) com
@frillseeker.bsky.social
Fashion historian. Award-winning author of 'Love Vintage' and 'Style is Eternal'. Collector. Educator. Valuer. Museum professional. MA Cultural Heritage. Working on the PhD. https://circavintageclothing.com.au
@scissorchef.bsky.social
Plays with sharp tools in the kitchen and in the costume shop. Digs into history down to the underpinnings.
@agressive-sparkles.bsky.social
26, she/her, artist, writer, historical costumer. Ask me about my chocolate strawberry donuts recipe.
@luciewhitmore.bsky.social
Fashion Curator Museum of London | Fashion City exhibition and book coming October 2023 | PhD on WW1 fashion 2018 | She/Her | Views my own
@achatenetc.bsky.social
Rennaise Maîtresse de conférences en Histoire moderne 18e siècle Genre Culture matérielle et consommation Cour de France #ESR
@sarahabendall.bsky.social
Material Culture & Gender Historian | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion, 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📖 Shaping Femininity (Bloomsbury) | Co-I AHRC Making Historical Dress Network | 👩🏻🏫Senior Lecturer | sarahabendall.com
@zostepatrikia.bsky.social
Textile Archaeologist PhDing @ Institute for Digital Exploration - USF. Old clothes pre-1200 is my jam. Dissertation on the representation of power via dress and appearance in Late Antique Sicily. US Gold Star Spouse. Florida woman. she/her
@gorenlj.bsky.social
Political Scientist. Pop Culture Enthusiast. Cook. Knitter. Always solving mysteries in small British villages.
@chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social
Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media 📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
@carolynaday.bsky.social
British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover.
@marloavidon.bsky.social
Cambridge History PhD student researching elite women's dress and the creation of fashionable female society in late 17th-century England ✨ aka the Pepys Girl ✨ Organizer of the Cambridge Early Modern Workshop
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.social
Historical fiction author and speaker who spends a lot of time in the sixteenth century. I make and wear historical clothing. Love old buildings , churches, needlework and Devon. Ever hopeful gardener #HistoricalFiction #devon #Books #needlework 🪡✍️🌱📚
@fabulousfashion.bsky.social
Fashion and dress history - historical, antique and vintage fashion and more! Extant fashion garments, fashion plates and original photographs from 18th century to 1980s! Occasionally also lifestyle and other extant products. Old stuff only!
@metcostume.bsky.social
Public domain works from The Met's Costume Institute dept. Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
@xxgaspxx.bsky.social
Digitized vintage sewing patterns. We have PDF Freebies every other week of random vintage sewing patterns.
@hottycouture.bsky.social
Fashion Historian. NEH Public Scholar. Working on a biography of the best fashion designer you've never heard of. Also me: @wornonthisday.bsky.social
@cora.bsky.social
Aspiring Fashion Historian. MA student in Fashion & Textile Studies. Formerly The Lingerie Addict.
@wornonthisday.bsky.social
Exploring the fascinating history of fashion, one day at a time. Skeets by @hottycouture.bsky.social.
@natania.bsky.social
Fantasy author, fashion historian, medievalist, Arthurian, gardener 🌺 ADHD, she/they, queer 🏳️🌈 | 👑 THE VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS Feb 14 - QUEEN OF MERCY - June 3rd, both from Solaris Books 👑 | rep: Stacey Graham More at: https://bit.ly/m/nataniabarron
@jennwong.bsky.social
The shining city on the hill...was Carthage. Anne de Bretagne, botanical mss, dress history, hand embroidery, native plants, and dogs. Lots of dogs. Recreating ca.1600 jacket V&A 173-1869 in silk on linen. Forever a silversmith
@isabellarosner.bsky.social
Textile historian🪡 curator, Royal School of Needlework | research associate, Witney Antiques | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
@mimicofmodes.com
Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her) Blog: http://mimicofmodes.com Author newsletter: http://buttondown.com/cassidypercoco