Natania Barron

1 – Welcome to #ThreadTalk! We're talking #Christmas frippery. 🎄🎀🎅 Fair warning: If you came for an uncomplicated, nostalgic look at this winter celebration, I suggest you take your eggnog & jingle along, Santa baby. Still with me? Cool. Let's don our gay apparel & begin! 2 – Before we get to the frocks, Christmas as we know it is quite new. At least, the whole lighting trees, fancy outfits, presents, consumerism business. We have Dickens, Hessian soldiers & capitalism to thank for that. Prang, 1880, below. Watch out, kids. That's real fire! 3 – Lots of our current traditions are rather "new old-fashioned". See, up in until the 19th…

1 – Welcome to #ThreadTalk! Our topic: the dandy of the Regency Era, Beau Brummell, oft credited with ruining men's fashion. Yes: he arrives at a cultural moment when "masculine" fashion takes a sharp turn away from color, patterns & frippery. But let's dig deeper, shall we?👔 2 – The Regency look is now iconic, thanks to Brummell's contemporary Jane Austen. But at the time, it was quite a shift. The elaborate "Macaroni" style favored wild colors, wigs, & designs, frequently mocked in satirical comics, had been the playground of rich young men. 3 – Although the English were a bit more restrained, Paris knew no limits. (Keep in mind…

Let's go on a trip to interstellar space and check out what fashion is like on Arakkis and beyond. A look at the threads that keep the new Dune film together.

Ghosts and ghouls, wights and lost souls... what are they wearing?

A look into the movies, and fashion, that scarred (and inspired) me.

1 – Welcome, intrepid readers. The week’s #threadtalk is the 2nd half of our dive into the wild world of #Romanticism. 🎀🌹🎶🎨 And it’s all about sex, drugs & art, fueled by good ol’ imperialism (but make it #fashion). But first, a refresher: 2 – We’re begin tonight in 1836 w/ Charles Darwin, who returned to England in this year. Though we owe a great deal to Chuck, for all his study, for all that, he still determined women intellectually inferior. Not to mention his support of his eugenicist cousin, Francis Galton. 3 – For our 1836 gown, we have a lovely green and floral number. Francis Galton might have…

Ah, romance. Sweeping vistas, sumptuous fabrics, and advancements in human thought. Well, for a select few.

She was the preeminent designer of English Rococo style--but what was the world like in and around Anna Maria Garthwaite? A look at the tumultuous environment of Spitalfields, London.

A look back at labor and fabric, a hand-in-hand history.

You might want to laugh at the heights of these wigs, but there's quite a tale waiting beneath... and it isn't pretty.