Historic Fashion Admirer Gifts

Lucia di Lammermoor

Victorian Lady

"Oh to be young and in love and wear things cut on the bias."

Blue Dress and Feather

A Macaroni in 1772

"I'm just saying, maybe we wouldn't need the swords if we didn't wear these clothes."

Blue Haired Lady in Ballgown

I want to hold your hand

Blue Dress

Lady in a pretty dress

Women's Fashion

A man wearing a ruff and a feather cap

Analysis of Beauty - Plate II.

An opera singer

"I predict that men's fashions will remain relatively stable throughout the next century and a half, whereas women's will evolve continuously, and with the speed and illogic of a juiced-up tribe of rampaging Darwinian monkeys."

Girl who had a bowl of trifle spilt over her dress at her court presentation party the night before

Two Victorian men dancing

"Of course it sends your message digitally. If you want analogue we'll have to saddle up old Bessie."

Josephine Baker

"This is one of those subway stations they've restored to their original state."

Servant running after a couple dressed up for a fancy ball with the door-key

Ambrogio

"So have you been watching Bridgerton?"

Trilby - 'Confession

Duchess

A Head-Dress in 1777

Classical Fashion Changed Rapidly and Distincly the Very Moment That Jerky Teenagers Were Invented.

Spinning Wheel

Edwardians.

Sisters

A design, showing how the pretty hoods worn by ladies might be made useful as well as ornamental.

Feathers and Cape

Paris Fashions, Winter 1863-64

"When you talked me into eternal life, you left out the part about menopause."

Pistols at dawn.