Anonymous 1902-1921 "Dress History” Annotated british sailor with hand-painted lustre glaze around

with hand-painted lustre glaze around the lip

" Rendered in an earthy palette of dark green and brown

to feel rather elegant

This hatted and bespectacled man reminds me rather of James Joyce--a smart

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Anonymous 1902-1921 "Dress History” Annotated british sailor with hand-painted lustre glaze aroundThe recent book by fashion historian and museum curator Kate Strasdin, The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe, put dress diaries on my radar. The subject of Stradin's extensively researched book was a dress diary started in 1838 by a Mrs. Anne Sykes, holding snippets of fabrics from a range of garments owned by her or family members, with annotations as to when and what and where worn together creating a unique record of their