Oct 28, 2014
Okay, okay, I’ll share! Here’s the first of the *other* gowns in the Worth photo album. (The album I looked at, anyway. There were at least a couple more huge tomes, just for that year.) I planned to do one of those viral list posts you see all over social...
Oct 24, 2014
In my last post we discovered that the white roses at the hem of the Peacock dress are not, in fact, original, but are replacements made by the milliner Reslaw Hats in the 1950s. We also saw what we think are a few of the original roses. These are a wonderful find,...
Oct 16, 2014
So you wanted to know what’s in the little box? Well, to answer that I have to backtrack a few months. The Peacock Dress was on loan to the Museum of London for most of its lifetime, from at least the 1930s to the 1990s. My interest was piqued when a contact at...
Oct 9, 2014
Yesterday I returned once again to visit the National Trust at Kedleston Hall. I must have been to Kedleston thirty times if I’ve been there once, but I can never come back without recalling the first time I ventured into a dimly lit basement museum and saw that...
