#skirt history

[mayakern]

I can't believe the milk skirt is not popular enough to warrant a restock!! This is the very first skirt that caught my eye from your shop, and at the time I thought it's already discontinued!! I feel so lucky I was able to snag up one today! Do you have any other skirts you're surprised didn't perform as well as you expected?

the milk skirt WAS discontinued ages ago, we just found a few stragglers in the office. the OG milk skirt (blue hem) is from 2017 but the newer one is from just last year. the original version sold OK for a while, and then really poorly, and we were hoping maybe a new. more subtle version would sell better but we were wrong lol

as for other designs that sadly didn't sell as well as i expected, there are quite a few!

the tea skirt in its multiple iterations. they are such slow sellers that devin has outlawed me from creating any new color variants of this design so it is dead forever. unless we find stragglers it will never be sold again. (OG cream and pink colors are from 2020, blue is from 2022)

the monstera (2022) and moth (2020) skirts. the monstera skirt just suffered from being the 10th most popular design in a preorder poll that we picked 10 designs from. people liked it but prioritized buying other designs first so we never reprinted it. the moth skirt, idk, i made it as a companion piece to the bee skirt but i think because it's set on diamonds and not hexagons the moths end up too close together.

the elephants skirt (2020). this one people were absolutely mad for when i was drawing the art and it just kind of sold OK. not awful, but not great.

and the original spring color palette of the hiss from a rose skirt (2019). the other color palettes (black & red and winter) have done better, which is a good thing, but also im sad because i love the OG color palette. i think the original printing of it lacked some contrast that would give it more definition, and i've since reworked it to print better, but it sold so abysmally we haven't reprinted it since the changes were made. 😭

the royalty skirt (2019). idk why y'all hated this one so much it's still cute

there are a bunch more i could talk about too but i'm out of images so that's it for now.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Ensemble designed for Pattie Boyd

The Fool

1967

The Fool were a Dutch design collective led by Marijke Koger and Simon Posthuma, best known for their work with the Beatles, which included designing the tunics the band wore for their 1967 television broadcast of All You Need Is Love, decorating John Lennon's piano and George Harrison's Mini, painting a circular mural at the Harrisons' Surrey home Kinfauns, designing the inner sleeve of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP and, most famously, painting a three-story psychedelic mural on the facade of the Beatles' short lived Apple Boutique in London's Baker Street, which was subsequently painted over by order of the local council. Pattie Boyd and her sister Jenny were fans of the collective and would model their clothing designs for the Apple Boutique. According to Boyd, this brocade ensemble was custom made for her by The Fool and she recalls wearing it during a trip to Greece with all four Beatles in July 1967 to explore the possibility of buying a set of Greek islands.

Christie's: The Pattie Boyd Collection (Lot 13)

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Evening dress (bodice and skirt).

Designer/Maker: House of Worth (Paris, France)

Date: ca. 1900

Medium: Silk, cotton, textile, metal, glass, paper.

[marzipanandminutiae]

why are skirts inherently evil and oppressive in historical fiction until men are wearing them

I've never heard anyone going on at length about how Universally ImpracticalTM the garb of a Scotsman or an ancient Roman politician are

suddenly everyone has a concept of situational practicality that previously was not there

[historical-fashion-polls]

for the purposes of this poll we're focusing on the three figures on the right

submitted by @wordmage-girl 💚❤️💛

[niuniente]

Jacques de Lalaing really slayed it in the 1530's in his pink tutu.

Jacques de Lalaing Fighting the Lord of Espiry at the Passage of Arms of the Fountain of Tears Master of the Getty Lalaing, ca. 1530 The Met Museum, New York

[vintagefashionplates]

(via Doba korzetů a honzíků - EMMA RIEDOVÁ)

[pastlivesfinery]

Le Moniteur de La Mode, 1886 🩷

[nipuni]

I got a new coat! So I had to style it 😆 which outfit is your favourite? 🤔

[andelkacroatia]

[mayakern]

you ever thought of doing like, a poodle skirt, but instead of a poodle its a chibi of one of your ocs/character designs? id buy that in a heartbeat

some of my earliest skirt designs were basically like that (tho not in poodle placement), back when i did fan merch and also made merch for monsterpop

i don’t make fan merch anymore tho and tbh other than the hands skirt, which only has hands, the skirt designs i’ve previously made that had people on them just don’t sell well so it’s just not something i do anymore

[fashionsfromhistory]

Skirt Suit

Rahvis (London, England)

1948

Victoria & Albert Museum (Accession number: T.486:1, 2-1996)

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Skirt.

Designer/Maker: Tachi Castillo

Date: ca. 1955

Medium: Cotton, wool, metallic thread & rhinestones.

[marzipanandminutiae]

the increasingly casual nature of everyday clothing in mainstream western culture has heightened our susceptibility to Oops All Evening Gowns Syndrome- that is, the willingness to believe that literally any relatively nice dress from before the 1920s was formalwear -because a party/ball is the only context in which we can imagine wearing gowns like that

in this essay I will not, because my nose is very stuffed up and I am Annoyed

[historical-fashion-polls]

submitted by @shilohta 🩶🩷💛

[spirk-trek]

T'zad'u Fanzine | Roo, 1988