Worn #onthisday in 1920 by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford at their #wedding in Beverly Hills, CA. The intimate, top-secret home ceremony was the second for both actors. Pickford wore "a simple white tulle gown with apple green trimming" per the Post-Record, one stocking turned inside-out. #OTD
Worn #onthisday in 1929 by aviatrix Amelia Earhart to read letters over the radio to Admiral Richard Byrd's Antarctic expedition. #OTD @misci-ny.bsky.social
Worn #onthisday in 1939 by reigning Rose Queen Barbara Dougall in a fashion show of "chic garden wear" at the Pasadena Flower Show in Pasadena, CA. The Central Press described her play suit of "plain shirt and printed shorts" with "a full peasant-style wrap-around skirt and rope-soled garden shoes."
Lurex and silk "Menina" dress worn #onthisday in 2005 by its creator, Spanish fashion designer Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada, to the launch of her first perfume, Corazón, in Paris. The silhouette evokes the farthingales depicted by 17th-century Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social
Matching outfits worn #onthisday in 1937 by twin brothers William and Walter Woffinden and their fiancees, twin sisters Veda and Vida Lucas. The photo was taken before the brothers left Salt Lake City, UT, for England, where they would spend two years on a Mormon mission. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social
Worn #onthisday in 1967 by flight attendants for America, Western, Japan, Continental, and American Airlines in Los Angeles, CA. "Airlines are getting away from traditional stewardess uniforms as these girls attest," the @latimes.com reported. #OTD @uclalibrary.bsky.social
Mary McFadden gown worn #onthisday in 1986 by Ally Sheedy to present the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subjects with Steve Guttenberg in Los Angeles, CA. The ivory gown has McFadden's signature classically-inspired pleating. #OTD @theacademyusa.bsky.social @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social
Foustanelas (Greek kilts) worn #onthisday in 1925--Greek Independence Day--by flag-bearers entering the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, a 4th century BC athletic field rebuilt for the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 for. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social
Worn #onthisday in 1932 by Lady Chaytor, making a tour by air on the Continent giving lectures on dress, wearing aviation dress at a ball given at the Grand Hotel de Pera in Constantinople, Turkey. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social
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Worn #onthisday in 1883 at the Vanderbilt's costume ball in New York, NY. The Sun warned: "Sober-minded men ask themselves whether it is advisable to make such a display of wealth and luxurious living at at time when the working classes are in a state of serious fermentation." #OTD 📷 NY Historical
