Worn #onthisday in 1968 in Bergdorf Goodman's "import show" in New York, NY. Nina Ricci's "heavily beaded white linen evening gown with red and green sequin flowers" was "the most expensive fashion" per the @nytimes.com; it "clinked and clanked as a model pranced through the salon in it." #OTD 📷MCNY
Worn #onthisday in 1942 by a construction worker building the Shasta Dam across the Sacramento River near Kennett, CA. 15 million tons of concrete were used in the dam's construction, which took 8 years; masks protected workers from inhaling concrete dust. #OTD 📷 CSU Chico
Vest worn #onthisday in 1853 by Franklin Pierce at his inauguration as 14th president of the United States in Washington, D.C. The lining is embroidered with "God and Liberty" in a wreath on one side; an anchor that once adorned the other side has been cut out. #OTD 📷New Hampshire Historical Society
Worn #onthisday in 1922 by American tennis players Marie Wagner and Martha Bayard at the Metropolitan Indoor Championships' Women's Final at the 7th Regiment Armory in New York City, NY. Wagner won the match and the Championship. #OTD @gettyimages.com
Blanket worn #onthisday in 1940 by Seabiscuit after winning the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap and setting a new track record in front of 74,000 ecstatic spectators in Arcadia, CA. The @latimes.com called it “the most popular victory in the history of western racing.” #OTD @uclalibrary.bsky.social
Officer Uniform of the Life-Guards Field Engineer Battalion worn #onthisday in 1881 by Tsar Alexander II when his bulletproof carriage was bombed in St. Petersburg, Russia. He survived only to be mortally wounded by a second bomber when he got out to inspect the damage. #OTD 📷 State Hermitage Museum
Ceremonial Kazakh dress worn #onthisday in 2018 by girls waiting to welcome NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (depicted as matryoshka dolls) back from 168 days onboard the International Space Station at Zhezkazgan Airport in Kazakhstan. #OTD 📷 NASA
Cartier tiara worn #onthisday in 1931 by Viscountess Astor (with George Bernard Shaw and Charlie Chaplin, right) to the UK premiere of "City Lights" at the Dominion Theatre in London. The diamond bandeau was made in c. 1915 and the carved turqoise added in 1930, just before Astor acquired it. #OTD
Worn #onthisday in 1920 by bridesmaids at the London #wedding of the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mulholland, per @thetimes.com: "pale yellow satin dresses...with long skirts and short bodices, with a lace tabbier. They wore green wreaths and the bridegroom's gifts, amber pendants." #OTD 📷 V&A Museum
Worn #onthisday in 1910 by the widowed Lady Brocklehurst to be presented at court at Buckingham Palace in London: a black satin, net, and tulle gown and train trimmed with jet, black diamonds, Chantilly lace, and silver and crystal embroidery, and a dyed black ostrich feather fan. #OTD 📷 V&A Museum
Uniforms worn #othisday in 1944 by the the 555th Parachute Infantry Company--the "Triple Nickels"--at Fort Benning in Chattahoochee County, GA. The first all-Black paratrooper unit to graduate from Airborne School consisted of 16 handpicked college graduates and elite athletes. #OTD @gettyimages.com
Boots, breeches, dusters, and neckties worn #onthisday in 1927 by three women from the East Anglia Institute of Agriculture at the Essex Pig Show and Sale in Chelmsford, UK. #OTD @gettyimages.com
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Worn #onthisday in 1985 by Princess Diana to visit the Cirencester Police Station in Gloucestershire, UK. British designer Jasper Conran made the red wool suit. #OTD @hrp-palaces.bsky.social
Brown silk satin day dress worn #onthisday in 1866 by Isabella Riggs at her church #wedding to Rev. Mark Williams of Ohio in Beloit, WI. A few months later, the two seminary school graduates sailed from New York to Peking, China, to begin missionary work. #OTD 📷 Minnesota Historical Society
Worn #onthisday in 1972 by Queen Elizabeth II to host a farewell banquet on the HMS Britannia during a state visit to Singapore. Her red and white velvet Norman Hartnell gown echoed the Singapore flag's colors. When the last guests went ashore, the royal yacht set sail. #OTD 📷 RCT
White smocks worn #onthisday in 1957 by Royal Marines from the HMS Protector training for cold-weather combat in Admiralty Bay in Antarctica. #OTD 📷 Imperial War Museums
Worn #onthisday in 1934 by the Countess of Carlisle, arriving at the port of Los Angeles, CA, "from the Orient." Per the @LATimes.com, "in her 18 month's globe circuit she hunted tigers and elephants in India and crashed in an airplane at Shanghai, breaking both legs." #OTD @uclalibrary.bsky.social
Wool crêpe coat, printed silk dress, straw hat, leather shoes, and cotton velvet purse worn #onthisday in 1940 by Barbara Heather Patterson at her #wedding. The ensemble was purchased from Derry & Toms department store in London. #OTD @chertseymuseum.bsky.social
Worn #onthisday in 1944 by Queen Fawzia of Iran, 22, visiting Camp Amirabad, a U.S. Army base near Tehran. A nurse stationed there recalled: "Dressed in full uniform, we stood at attention as her imperial majesty approached the hospital. Her chariot for the occasion was one of the U.S. jeeps." #OTD
Uniform of the 23rd Mounted Rifles Brigade worn #onthisday in 1917 by John Taylor, 22, at his #wedding to widow Maud des Forges MacLeod, 34, in Wellington, New Zealand. He was posted to Egypt in June and invalided home by January. He outlived Maud by 20 years; they are buried together. #OTD 📷Te Papa
Worn #onthisday in 1998 by Russian figure skater Ilia Kulik to win gold at the Olympics in Nagano, Japan. The Vancouver Sun reported: "Eyewitness descriptions of this travesty have ranged from 'skinny bumblebee' to 'crushed banana gone bad' to 'vinyl giraffe' to 'taxi cab running into a cow.'" #OTD
Worn #onthisday in 1900 by socialites appearing in "The Masque of War and Peace," a performance in aid of the Widows and Orphans of the Household Troops, staged at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. B.J. Simmons & Co. of Covent Garden made the costumes, designed by Percy Anderson. #OTD 📷 V&A Museum
Suits worn #onthisday in 2010 by famous Canadians carrying the Olympic flag in the opening ceremony of the Winter Games at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver: Betty Fox, Jacques Villeneuve, Anne Murray, Bobby Orr, Donald Sutherland, Barbara Ann Scott-King, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, and Julie Payette. #OTD
Worn #onthisday in 2016 by Amal Clooney to the premiere of "Hail, Caesar!" at the Berlin International Film Festival: a 1981 Yves Saint Laurent gown of black sequins covered with a sheer tulle overlay from William Vintage. #OTD
Worn #onthisday in 1944 by Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth as guests at the #wedding of Lady Anne Spencer and Lt. Christopher Wake-Walker at Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth's coat and hat were cherry red while Margaret's were duck-egg blue. #OTD @gettyimages.com @westminsterabbey.bsky.social
Worn #onthisday in 1918 by Virginia Bradfield at her #wedding to Harold Ward in Detroit, MI. Per the @freep.com, she wore "a Lucile model of white tulle and silver, the skirt modeled on rather short lines, the tulle veil which enveloped the girlish figure forming the train." #OTD 📷 The Henry Ford
Uniforms worn #onthisday in 1998 in the first women's ice hockey game in Olympic history in Nagano, Japan. Finland beat Sweden, 6-0. #OTD @gettyimages.com
Worn #onthisday in 1913 by Ella Harmood-Banner, wife of Liverpool's Lord Mayor, when she was presented at Buckingham Palace: a Paquin gown of ivory broché with a Malines lace scarf forming the sleeves and a rose-covered gold and powder-blue train in the so-called “Moyen Age Style." #OTD 📷 V&A Museum
Worn #onthisday in 1938--"Black Sunday"--by swimmers and first responders at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. On a crowded summer's day, 3 freak waves collapsed a sandbank and swept 300 people out to sea. All but 5 lived thanks to hours-long mass rescue efforts. 📷 North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club
