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Natania Barron

fantasy author, fashion historian

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  • Fashion,  ThreadTalk

    Thread Talk | Cloaks and Capes

    December 2, 2024 / No Comments

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_(clothing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperon_(headgear) MICKLEWRIGHT, NANCY. “CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN.” Ars Orientalis 47 (2017): 6–17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45238929. KARL, BARBARA. “EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN COURT FASHION GOES GLOBAL: Embroidered Spanish Capes from Bengal.” Ars Orientalis 47 (2017): 69–90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45238932. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupinambá_cape https://huntington.org/verso/stunning-and-sacred-cape How Paris Became Paris – Joan DeJean –https://www.amazon.com/How-Paris-Became-Invention-Modern/dp/162040768X

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    Mourning Traditions and Fashion History

    October 12, 2021

    Color, Form, and Fashion: Glimpsing History in BRIDGERTON Season 2

    March 29, 2022

    Yikes, Stripes

    May 4, 2021
  • ThreadTalk

    Thread Talk | Rhapsody in Blue

    November 25, 2024 / No Comments

    Bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isatis_tinctoria https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-researcher-identifies-oldest-textile-dyed-indigo#:~:text=The indigo-blue cloth found,to be 6%2C200 years old.&text=If it weren’t for,jeans as a wardrobe staple. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/17/colour-blue-rich-divine-ancient-egyptians-virgin-mary https://www.jstor.org/stable/4255151?searchText=blue+dye&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dblue%2Bdye%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A90e7d5ec7ef715158152fdf9ff9d6eff https://www.jstor.org/stable/24097672?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/277679?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1f8853c.12?searchText=blue+pigment&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dblue%2Bpigment%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A9a9dda4b3dcc2dc4a078b1b95c09a7de https://www.jstor.org/stable/24760385?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/42616178?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents Blue gauntlets – 1690–1710 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/157532 Robe a la francais – 1765 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/83094 Corset – 1770 https://fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/48635/corset?ctx=6e39d3035e674c37cd695909636d7d827cbb650d&idx=21 Man’s pants – 1840 https://fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/96500/mans-pants?ctx=f75ca6631e0bd3e5911dfb111747e42cf33958c7&idx=68 Women’s jacket – 1850 https://fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/97239/jacket?ctx=15129086ecc433eb395bd34f50762b53243ce21e&idx=80 1400-1500 – Towel https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O15355/towel-unknown late 14th century | Tartan Velvet https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O109657/textile-fragment-unknown Mantle – Spanish – 1804-07 https://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/80029364?img=0 Suit – French – 1740s https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/84428 Banyan – Chinese – 1760 – 1770 https://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/80077351?img=1 Blue silk brocade bodice – 1750 – 1770 https://augusta-auction.com/list-of-past-auctions-by-date/auction?view=lot&id=10611&auction_file_id=22 Women’s working clothes – late 19th century – China https://collections.mfa.org/objects/8048/womans-domestic-semiformal-robe-pao?ctx=5e0f233a-8cd8-4690-8857-80b90105af3b&idx=5 Women’s tunic – 19th century https://collections.mfa.org/objects/73417/womans-tunic?ctx=d91a2cda-827a-4ed3-88fc-2683c9f4eb52&idx=347 Child’s tunic with ducks…

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    #ThreadTalk Flashback to the 1880s

    June 15, 2021

    Marie Antoinette and Her Squad

    April 29, 2022

    The Costumes of Villeneuve’s Dune: History, Texture, & Storytelling

    November 9, 2021
  • Fashion,  ThreadTalk

    Thread Talk | All That Glitters – Gold in Fashion

    November 18, 2024 / 1 Comment

    1 – Welcome to #ThreadTalk Get ready for #fashionhistory – it’s been a while, but I’m back. Today’s topic is All That Glitters – we’re talking about fashioning fabric with gold and metal, but especially real gold. Below, 1610-1620 – Dress of Electress Magdalena Syblla of Saxony. 2 – To understand how we make fabric out of gold, let’s chat about my favorite element: Au. Gold isn’t just shiny & beautiful, it also resists corrosion & is extremely malleable. Also? Gold is alien. Scientists posit it came to earth via massive moon and meteor collisions billions of years ago. 3 – I am a geology nerd, so I could go…

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    Bonnet’s Banyan Bounty: Our Flag Means Death and Those Robes

    May 16, 2022

    Men’s Regency Style: Is Beau Brummell to Blame?

    November 15, 2021

    ThreadTalk Icons: Elizabeth I of England

    April 22, 2021
  • Fashion,  social media,  ThreadTalk

    ThreadTalk is Moving… and Changing – Thoughts on Twitter, Boundaries, and Platform Ownership

    October 31, 2022 / 2 Comments

    You say that things change, my dear For the last 14 years, Twitter has been the center of my writing life. And no single contribution has been as big or far-reaching as ThreadTalk, my fashion history mini-lectures on the beautiful and terrible world fabric culture. Twitter has never been safe; it’s always been a double-edged sword. Even before this most recent crap, countless users (myself included) have been the target of hate groups, threats, and more, just for stating opinions or, you know, existing. And it’s about to get worse. It’s already gotten worse. We’ve seen the writing on the wall. As someone who built my other career on social…

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    October 3, 2021

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    May 18, 2021

    Miracles Do Not, in Fact, Break the Laws of Nature.

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  • Fashion,  Featured,  ThreadTalk

    The Sumptuous, Sinful, and Sultry Costumes of The Sandman Series from Netflix

    August 30, 2022 / No Comments

    My Patrons voted, and boy I’m glad they did. We had quite a reaction on Twitter for this one, getting the attention of both Neil Gaiman and one of my favorite directors of all time, Guillermo del Toro. I loved watching the first season of The Sandman on Netflix, and I was brought back to reading the comics almost 20 years ago — really my first comic book experience that helped me see graphic novels as an art form beyond what I’d ever expected. I cried, I laughed, I covered my eyes. I swooned for Lucifer. You know, as you do. 1 – 💫Awake, dreamers. Tonight we don garments of…

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    The Lure of Timeless Taffeta

    February 2, 2021

    Colors to Dye For

    March 15, 2021

    Miracles Do Not, in Fact, Break the Laws of Nature.

    October 21, 2018
  • Fashion,  ThreadTalk

    These Boots Are Made for Walking: Boots Throughout History

    August 15, 2022 / No Comments

    ThreadTalk gets the boot.

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    Miracles Do Not, in Fact, Break the Laws of Nature.

    October 21, 2018

    Fashion and Fiction: Don’t Forget The Missing Thread

    March 2, 2021

    Yikes, Stripes

    May 4, 2021
  • Fashion,  ThreadTalk

    The Crowning Affair: All About Crowns

    July 13, 2022 / No Comments

    The scandalous and beautiful history of crowns, tiaras, and diadems.

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    Embroidery: A World Heritage Art

    March 8, 2021

    Bad Romance: The Romantic Era in Fashion, Volume Two

    September 28, 2021

    Rivia’s Riveting Wardrobe: A Look at The Witcher’s Season 2 Costumes

    January 10, 2022
  • Fashion,  ThreadTalk

    Bonnet’s Banyan Bounty: Our Flag Means Death and Those Robes

    May 16, 2022 / No Comments

    1 – Ahoy! #threadtalk is sea bound–or at least a cozy room below–exploring the phenomenon of OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH & its revival of mens night-gowns, or banyans.🫖 This pinnacle of masculinity has a rich, wide, global history, full of intrigue. Away to Bonnet's banyans! #ofmd 2 – There is some disagreement about when exactly the banyan became a Western gentleman's fashion staple. We know influences from Japan & India coalesced in the late 17thC. Between colonization & an obsession with "chinoiserie", by 1730, it was a fad. Matthew Prior (below) 1718. 3 – The word banyan (or banjan, or banian) has an interesting etymology, coming to English (it is…

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    Yikes, Stripes

    May 4, 2021

    ThreadTalk is Moving… and Changing – Thoughts on Twitter, Boundaries, and Platform Ownership

    October 31, 2022

    Thread Talk | All That Glitters – Gold in Fashion

    November 18, 2024
  • Fashion,  ThreadTalk

    Marie Antoinette and Her Squad

    April 29, 2022 / No Comments

    1 – ⚜️🎀It's time for #ThreadTalk & today we're going big with the infamous Marie Antoinette: the oft-misquoted, scandalous, fashion forward last Queen of France (before the Revolution). Her image is iconic, but she did not do it alone. To her dying day, she had a *squad*.🎀⚜️ 2 – Born in 1755, Marie was not French; she was Austrian. Daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, Hapsburgs bigwig. Known then as Maria Antonia, she even met young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during her charmed childhood. Here she is in 1762, bedecked in satin, ribbons, and flowers. 3 – At 14, she was married by proxy to the Dauphin of France, in an effort…

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    #ThreadTalk Tackles Amazon’s Wheel of Time Series

    March 16, 2022

    Fashion and Fiction: Don’t Forget The Missing Thread

    March 2, 2021

    Mills, Strikes, & Textile Labor

    September 7, 2021
  • Fashion,  Patreon,  ThreadTalk

    Color, Form, and Fashion: Glimpsing History in BRIDGERTON Season 2

    March 29, 2022 / No Comments

    Visit a Regency period that never was, and explore the styles and designs of this imagined time.

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    March 16, 2022

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    February 22, 2021

    I Can See Sheerly Now

    June 22, 2021
  • Fashion,  Patreon,  ThreadTalk

    #ThreadTalk Tackles Amazon’s Wheel of Time Series

    March 16, 2022 / No Comments

    My patrons voted, and March's #ThreadTalk went to Two Rivers and Beyond, with a look at Season One of the Wheel of Time series.

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    Knight In Gold Velvet: Costume in The Green Knight

    August 3, 2021

    I Can See Sheerly Now

    June 22, 2021

    Here, there, and Everywhere: Linen

    May 25, 2021
  • fantasy,  Fashion,  ThreadTalk

    Glimpses Into the Costuming of The Lord of the Rings, the Rings of Power

    February 10, 2022 / 2 Comments

    I've been a big fan of The Lord of the Rings since the age of 14. Seeing the series come to life through costume is a huge pleasure, and I can't wait to see what they share next.

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    Enter the Goodreads Giveaway for Queen of None!

    November 20, 2020

    Introducing Two Brain Space

    October 25, 2014

    A Room of Their Own: A Look at Characters and the Spaces They Inhabit

    November 18, 2012
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