Merry FETCH-MAS! 🎄
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Sleighing the Jingle Bell Rock with my fellow Plastics 🤶 at the decked out @stpancrasren this Christmas! ✨❤️
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Sending you candy cane grams & a whole lot of love this holiday season (…but none for Gretchen Wieners) 🎁
@cassiesamji @thecolorsofsam @beckiicruel @adelicate_ @petrosofsparta
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birth of venus 🐚 🐚 🐚
shell by @periwinkle_shells
birth of venus 🐚 🐚 🐚
shell by @periwinkle_shells
birth of venus 🐚 🐚 🐚
shell by @periwinkle_shells
birth of venus 🐚 🐚 🐚
shell by @periwinkle_shells
✨10 years of All The Lights In The Sky✨
Being a featured artist on @area11 incredible album all those years ago was such an honour, and earlier this year it was even more of a privilege to join them on stage to sing our song together Shi No Barado in London for their tour 🎤 !!
This was a huge test for my confidence but I was so proud and pleased to be able to do it plus I had my friends supporting at my side! 🫶 and an amazing crowd singing all the words with me 😭
I’ll be joining them again THIS SATURDAY in Leeds 📍 @area11 for the last tickets left! 🌌
✨10 years of All The Lights In The Sky✨
Being a featured artist on @area11 incredible album all those years ago was such an honour, and earlier this year it was even more of a privilege to join them on stage to sing our song together Shi No Barado in London for their tour 🎤 !!
This was a huge test for my confidence but I was so proud and pleased to be able to do it plus I had my friends supporting at my side! 🫶 and an amazing crowd singing all the words with me 😭
I’ll be joining them again THIS SATURDAY in Leeds 📍 @area11 for the last tickets left! 🌌
✨10 years of All The Lights In The Sky✨
Being a featured artist on @area11 incredible album all those years ago was such an honour, and earlier this year it was even more of a privilege to join them on stage to sing our song together Shi No Barado in London for their tour 🎤 !!
This was a huge test for my confidence but I was so proud and pleased to be able to do it plus I had my friends supporting at my side! 🫶 and an amazing crowd singing all the words with me 😭
I’ll be joining them again THIS SATURDAY in Leeds 📍 @area11 for the last tickets left! 🌌
still in the winterthyme 🌿
still in the winterthyme 🌿
this yellow drop waist vintage dress is an all time favourite – a lucky find vintage shopping from Tokyo this summer ☀️ if the weather is gorgeous I would wear it every day!
this yellow drop waist vintage dress is an all time favourite – a lucky find vintage shopping from Tokyo this summer ☀️ if the weather is gorgeous I would wear it every day!
this yellow drop waist vintage dress is an all time favourite – a lucky find vintage shopping from Tokyo this summer ☀️ if the weather is gorgeous I would wear it every day!
this yellow drop waist vintage dress is an all time favourite – a lucky find vintage shopping from Tokyo this summer ☀️ if the weather is gorgeous I would wear it every day!
a quick trip to Florence to see the location of a very famous piece 🔎
I love Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi… this painting was considered gratuitous and grotesque in its excess, but for me I love the inception and the maximalism. It’s such an iconic and memorable piece, but did you know it’s based on a real collection and a real place?
The octagonal room in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence is the very same location which is captured in this piece! And can you recognise any of those tiny painstakingly painted paintings too?
It was ambitious to not only paint at your own level of skill, but also to emulate the skilled paintings of others, it makes my mind spin 😵💫
@uffizigalleries @royalcollectiontrust La Tribuna degli Uffizi
a quick trip to Florence to see the location of a very famous piece 🔎
I love Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi… this painting was considered gratuitous and grotesque in its excess, but for me I love the inception and the maximalism. It’s such an iconic and memorable piece, but did you know it’s based on a real collection and a real place?
The octagonal room in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence is the very same location which is captured in this piece! And can you recognise any of those tiny painstakingly painted paintings too?
It was ambitious to not only paint at your own level of skill, but also to emulate the skilled paintings of others, it makes my mind spin 😵💫
@uffizigalleries @royalcollectiontrust La Tribuna degli Uffizi
a quick trip to Florence to see the location of a very famous piece 🔎
I love Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi… this painting was considered gratuitous and grotesque in its excess, but for me I love the inception and the maximalism. It’s such an iconic and memorable piece, but did you know it’s based on a real collection and a real place?
The octagonal room in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence is the very same location which is captured in this piece! And can you recognise any of those tiny painstakingly painted paintings too?
It was ambitious to not only paint at your own level of skill, but also to emulate the skilled paintings of others, it makes my mind spin 😵💫
@uffizigalleries @royalcollectiontrust La Tribuna degli Uffizi
a quick trip to Florence to see the location of a very famous piece 🔎
I love Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi… this painting was considered gratuitous and grotesque in its excess, but for me I love the inception and the maximalism. It’s such an iconic and memorable piece, but did you know it’s based on a real collection and a real place?
The octagonal room in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence is the very same location which is captured in this piece! And can you recognise any of those tiny painstakingly painted paintings too?
It was ambitious to not only paint at your own level of skill, but also to emulate the skilled paintings of others, it makes my mind spin 😵💫
@uffizigalleries @royalcollectiontrust La Tribuna degli Uffizi
a quick trip to Florence to see the location of a very famous piece 🔎
I love Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi… this painting was considered gratuitous and grotesque in its excess, but for me I love the inception and the maximalism. It’s such an iconic and memorable piece, but did you know it’s based on a real collection and a real place?
The octagonal room in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence is the very same location which is captured in this piece! And can you recognise any of those tiny painstakingly painted paintings too?
It was ambitious to not only paint at your own level of skill, but also to emulate the skilled paintings of others, it makes my mind spin 😵💫
@uffizigalleries @royalcollectiontrust La Tribuna degli Uffizi
a quick trip to Florence to see the location of a very famous piece 🔎
I love Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi… this painting was considered gratuitous and grotesque in its excess, but for me I love the inception and the maximalism. It’s such an iconic and memorable piece, but did you know it’s based on a real collection and a real place?
The octagonal room in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence is the very same location which is captured in this piece! And can you recognise any of those tiny painstakingly painted paintings too?
It was ambitious to not only paint at your own level of skill, but also to emulate the skilled paintings of others, it makes my mind spin 😵💫
@uffizigalleries @royalcollectiontrust La Tribuna degli Uffizi
follow @beckiicruel for vintage fashion 🎀
some of my prairie dresses I have seen myself, most freehand, but for some I used a Gunne Sax Pattern and for the last a Laura Ashley pattern 😊 #sewing #dressmaking #prairiedress #vintagedress #vintagelauraashley
but what are you wearing to Tudor Tuesday? 🏰🌹
Corset made by me, turtleneck @uniqlo, skirt @brandymelvilleuk ✨
documenting incredible vintage dresses one day at a time 🫶 #vintage #vintagefashion #vintagedress #girlygirl
THE FRENCH HOOD: FASHION HISTORY 👑
This headband was made illegal in the 1500s – but we still don’t know what it really looked like 🤔
💭Known as the French Hood, this layered fabric headdress appeared in paintings all across Europe in the Tudor period. Worn by many queens and noblewomen, upon reaching peak popularity in the mid-century, Henry the 8th even passed a law stating that the wearing of French Hoods with trims of gold, pearls, or jewels would be illegal for women who were not married to a man who owned at least one horse 🐎
Popular imaginings of the French Hood lead us to believe that it’s a stiff crescent of fabric that sits above the head. It’s inspired fashion for centuries, including Prada’s puffy headbands of SS19 👜
But… what did it really look like? ‼️
The truth is a little different to the movies. Based on statues, and side-profile images, it becomes clear that the French Hood would have laid flat atop of the head, and less like a tiara than thought. 🏰
😭 but Sadly, though the French Hood is an iconic piece of fashion history, there are no known surviving original pieces left in existence, leaving its exact construction and styling a mystery lost to time to this day.
