#outerwear

[fashionsfromhistory]

Carriage Boots

Marshall Field

1890-1895

Albany Institute of History & Art

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Pelerine of Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna

1900s

Hermitage Museum

[iloveabortions]

Yohji Yamamoto: Leather Jacket (2018) Illustration: Suzume Uchida

[omgthatdress]

Pelisse

1818

Maryland Center for Art and Culture

[taylorswiftstyle]

The Eras Tour | The Tortured Poets Department section | Version 1

Vivienne Westwood custom

For my own predictions post guessing at tour designers for The Tortured Poets Department set on the Eras Tour I noted: “When it comes to designers, I feel Vivienne Westwood would excel at this assignment.” The theatricality, the dramatics, the corsetry, the Britishness of it all (that cavalry / Black Parade moment). It’s the perfect style match and I’m so happy that Taylor and team fully hit the nail on the head when it came to selecting the right design partner for this moment.

The white colour of the gown ties into the established colour-leached palette of #TTPD while also adding to line of similar white gowns she wore for the 2024 Grammys announcing the album and in the album’s lead single music video “Fortnight”. There’s of course the wedding gown comparison, particularly for the way the skirt seems to mimic the gathers of a bride making a harried exit after being left at the altar. The way her lyrics are scrawled all over the garment also seems to combine Taylor’s emotive vulnerability in wearing her heart on her sleeve (and centering the ownership of her work) while also reading a little like the scribbling psychosis from The Shining when a single phrase was repeated in a typewritten manuscript. A part of me wonders if there will be additional variants of this skirt with other TTPD lyrics as we saw on the backs of the different album variants and Taylor’s grief playlist titles.

It also feels notable to me that this is an area in Taylor’s costuming that is absent of her signature sparkle. Sequins aren’t just a glittery aesthetic that Taylor loves to wear, but they also serve a function for stage to draw eyes to a performer and catch the light. In the same way she’s said that she can show us lies when “the lights refract sequin stars off her silhouette every night” in bravely going on stage every weekend amidst trying to heal a broken heart I also think there was a lot of catharsis and healing in performing these songs, her proudly owned body of work, for tens of thousands every weekend.

Photos by Kevin Mazur/TAS24 via Getty Images

[artschoolglasses]

Wool Pelisse with Cotton Braid, English/French, 1810-20

From the National Gallery of Victoria

[plasticsweets]

Cat ear mini cape, Hangry & Angry

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Ostrich feather capelet, 1930s, London.

[sartorialadventure]

Just watched Temptation (1946). The costumes by Orry-Kelly were DIVINE. Good movie, too. Highly recommend!

[lichdolly]

Victorian Maiden - Velveteen Fur JSK, Gobelin Fur JSK (2004)

[anthonyknaape]

[fashionsfromhistory]

Winter Coat

c.1955

Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection at Syracuse University

[frostedmagnolias]

Black Velvet Cape

c. 1890-1900

Museum of Vancouver

[bebemoon]

look for the name NUKA (requested by anonymous) | roberto cavalli black suede shearling-lined jacket, alexander mcqueen oversized cowl hood chunky wool knit jumper + long fit and flare wool skirt w/ embroidered floral trim waist (a/w 1999), solcaleyo (on etsy) handmade leather boots w/ buckles and studs and wooden heel, pineward "eldritch" eau de parfum (smoke, myrrh, oakmoss, fir, leather, oolong tea, opoponax, pine needle, patchouli), ask & embla "ninth" earrings

[omgthatdress]

Cape

1795-1800

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"The extraordinary embroidery of this cape shows the delight of the British in the age-old tradition of representing nature in embroidery. The whimsy and pleasure expressed in the embroidery is evident."

I just love how fancy this cape is. Whoever owned it must have really had fun wearing it, with is incredibly fun images of both nature and leisure. I wish I could get more up-close images of the embroidery!

[handmade-oldschool-lolita]

Jacket, blouse, and skirt are all handmade!

From FRUiTS vol.46, 2001.