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Swimsuit Series, Part 3: Is Today Truly the 66th Anniversary of the First...
Micheline Bernardini modeling Louis Réard’s bikini. It’s widely regarded that on this day 66 years ago, the bikini was first introduced to the public by French engineer Louis Réard at the Piscine...
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The Swimsuit Series, Part 4: A Competitive Swimmer’s Musings
Artist and author Leanne Shapton trained for the Olympic swimming trials as a teenager. Her newest book, Swimming Studies, which was released this month, is a quiet, weightless and elegant collection...
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The Swimsuit Series, Part 5: Olympic Athletes, Posing
Mark Spitz, 1972. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, by unidentified artist. A few years before Farrah Fawcett donned her red bathing suit, seven-time gold medalist Mark Spitz wore...
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Through the Lens of Cosmo Covers: Remembering Helen Gurley Brown
Cosmopolitan, August 1970 Earlier this week, Cosmopolitan magazine’s longtime editor Helen Gurley Brown passed away at 90. Brown was famous (or infamous) for bringing blunt and colorful conversations...
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Hit-Making Hot Pants
On their wedding day in 1971, my mom changed from her gown into hot pants and my dad removed her garter as the celebration drew to a close. My parents were married on June 20, 1971. Just before they...
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The Swimsuit Series, Part 6: Ladies in Wading in Art
Swim Before Dark, 1978, by Helen Miranda Wilson As Labor Day approaches and summer sadly draws to a close, Threaded’s Swimsuit Series nears its end. But before we pack up our beach towels and boogie...
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12 Creepy Kids in Halloween Masks
Pumpkinhead and cat(?), date unknown. It wouldn’t be Halloween without masks. Jokers, scary clowns, gorillas and, when the presidential election converges with Halloween, tricker-or-treaters in...
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Giving Thanks to Clothes That Stretch
We can offer our gratitude this Thanksgiving to the English inventor Thomas Hancock for allowing our clothes to give a little as we indulge in a holiday feast. Without Hancock, we might not have...
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Dress Codes and Etiquette, Part 3: The Death of the Dinner Jacket on Open Water
Dining aboard the RMS Caronia, from a 1950s World Cruise brochure. As the sun dips below the ocean’s horizon on a cruise ship, swimsuits and flip-flops give way to the evening’s dictated dress code....
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Your Guide to Selecting the Best (or Is It Worst?) Ugly Christmas Sweater
Matching mother/daughter candy cane sweaters from Leisure Arts, 1989. Knitting pattern via Etsy. Spending quality time with family, drinking cider by the fire and playing Secret Santa all encourage...
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The History of the Flapper, Part 1: A Call for Freedom
Women’s dress of the 1910s. In the age before the Roaring Twenties, women were still wearing floor-length dresses. Waists were cinched. Arms and legs were covered. Corsets were standard on a daily...
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Sagging Pants Butt Up Against the Law
Super low-slung pants. A campaign in Massachusetts is determined to put an end to wearing saggy pants by enforcing a law enacted back in 1784 and amended in 1987. According to Section 16, “Open and...
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The History of the Flapper, Part 5: Who Was Behind the Fashions?
Ballerina Desiree Lubovska in a dress by Jean Patou. Photography by Adolf de Meyer, c. 1921. Have a look at the paintings of Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger and other Cubist painters...
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Lilly Pulitzer: Remembering the ‘Queen of Prep’
Lilly Pulitzer fits a model with one of her creations. Carlo Allegri / Getty Images Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink! —Lilly Pulitzer It all began with an orange juice-stained...
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The Story Behind the Lacoste Crocodile Shirt
When French tennis players Henri Cochet and René Lacoste met at the net in this undated photo, Lacoste was sporting his signature crocodile on his blazer.© Underwood & Underwood/Corbis Frenchman...
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