Dick Van Dyke singing "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" in a restaurant is the content we all need right now!

#FrockingFabulous #AdventCalenDior #1: Sparkle like you've never sparkled before in Dior's "Junon", as we kick off our countdown to the big day! #Fashionhistory of 1949, via the Met.

A gorgeous #Roman glass bowl, made from amber-coloured glass. It has survived in beautiful condition and despite being around 2000 years old, would probably not look out of place in a home today! #AncientGlass #RomanArchaeology (📷 Sotheby's)

#FridayNightFrills 18th Century men's waistcoat, silk embroidered with floral sprigs and butterflies, 1790's via The Metropolitan Museum of Art

#AncientSiteSunday: a fantastic photo of one of the colossal statues from the main entrance to the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, #Egypt, mostly covered by sand. It was taken by Maxime Du Camp in 1850. An assistant climbed to the top of the head of the colossus, probably...1/2

One of my favourites by Jungsuk Lee. Have a cozy night, everyone 💛✨

Detail, Laocoön and His Sons. Date: c. 42 to 20 BC. The statue depicts Laocoön, the priest of Apollo from the city of Troy, and his two sons. They are locked in the death coils of two serpents on the steps of an altar. Collection: Vatican Museums.

Detail, Marble portrait of the co-emperor Lucius Verus. Period: Mid-Imperial, Antonine. Date: c. 161–169 AD. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 162.

Evergreen

This entire thread is so scarily close to my experience with writing this year (aside from moving) that it brought a lump to my throat. I wouldn’t want to wish it on anyone, yet there’s something comforting in not being alone in this awfulness.

I posted this back in the summer, but it’s far too Christmassy not to go back to! Be your own #Frockingfabulous gift in this Ann Lowe gown. #fashionhistory of the 1950s, via Whitaker Auctions.

#FrockingFabulous #AdventCalenDior #22: 'May' of 1953 is a wonderful confection of hand-knotted and embroidered silk floss clover and grass! #Fashionhistory via the Met.

Yasuke, a tall African man, arrived in Japan in 1579 and made history as the first foreign-born man to become a samurai warrior. He was 6’2, the average height for men in Japan is 5’7

Niagara Falls has frozen a few times in History. 1848, 1911, 1912, 1917, 2014 and 2015

Happy almost Christmas! This 1740-5 embroidered mantua from the V&A feels so festive. It’s extra special because we know who stitched it: the train is signed “Rec'd of Mdme Leconte by me Magd. Giles.” Leconte was a Huguenot embroideresses who worked in London in 1710-1746

This #Frockingfabulous 1820's #gravymagnet is festive as anything thanks to some gorgeous embroidery and that swagged hem! #Fashionhistory for Christmas via the Met.

#OnThisDay, Jan. 11, 1992. Host Rob Morrow/Musical guest Nirvana. Only a few months after Smells Like Teen Spirit fully drug us kicking and screaming into the 90s, Nirvana played on SNL for the first time. It would begin a long legacy between the show and Dave Grohl.

Carole Lombard, wearing a Travis Banton bias cut silk dress.

My eye is horribly blurred after my injection, but I’m still able to appreciate the #frockingfabulous "Sea Fan Fantasy" by Tina Leser . #Fashionhistory of 1947 via Philadelphia Museum of Art.