Category: real women’s clothing directory

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Real Women’s Clothing Update

I’ve been working for a few weeks now on updating the Real Women’s Clothing directory. Many of the major museums changed their URLS, which took forever to go back and reconstruct (razaaraerknasdfkn). In fact, the Centraal Museum has totally changed their image database and their website has said they’ll be loading the images “within a few weeks” for a few months now, so there are only placeholders for those. I’ve also added a decent amount of new listings (marked in white, as always). So have fun browsing, and let me know if you find anything new out there — many thanks to those who have emailed me links!

In other news, I promised an update to my 1910 evening dress, but my home computer (which has all my images stored on it) is sickly and had to go away to Texas. So until I get it back, I’m not going to be able to add images — which means no project updates for at least a week. Sorry! I’ll try to keep things lively around here anyway.

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Real Women’s Clothing

There’s a raft of new updates to the Real Women’s Clothing directory — don’t ask, I had a run of luck the other night while searching! Some really really gorgeous things in there, particularly in the 18th c. section, from the Museo del Traje in Spain (although if you get a Microsoft SQL error when you open the page, hit “refresh” on your browser and that seems to take care of it).

One of the most entertaining of these is the supposedly 1780 gown (hideous!) at the Museo del Traje that is obviously the inspiration for one of Natalie Portman’s costume (more hideous!) in the upcoming film Goya’s Ghosts — we’ve been picking it all apart on Livejournal (credit LJ heileen for the find). What do you think? 1780 – huh? Hideous or only midly offensive?

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Real Women’s Clothing Update

There are a bunch of new listings in the Real Women’s Clothing directory, plus some new views of some old listings. The Boston MFA has redone their site, which meant that while there are a bunch of new listings from them, there were some which I wasn’t sure whether we’d seen before. If I wasn’t sure, I marked it as new just in case. In bad news, the Museum of the City of New York has removed their images of their Charles Worth collection, so those are gone. Grumble grumble.