A brief moment of muffs today, Fashionable Reader.
I own a few muffs but I very rarely use them. Even though my hands are always cold and I like that they can just be shoved up the arm and worn without occupying a hand (as clutches are wont to do). Not quite sure why not, but there it is.
I even sewed one, once, with a secret pocket. It's one of the hardest things I've ever sewed.
Here's a bought one, big and fluffy and black and adorable, and yet rarely used...
Here's a photo shoot where it made an apprentice, this was a drive con so I could afford to pack something so fluffy.
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| photographed and copyright by j daniel sawyer |
I also own a vintage fur one that is a wrist muff, very small but so cute.
Muffs of History!
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| damesalamode- Gallery of Fashion, evening dresses, February 1795 |
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| Le Follet Friday, January 1, 1864 v. 43, plate 97 |
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| via colourthysoul- Frederick Childe Hassam - A New Year’s Nocture, New York (1892) |
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| 1900 muff via livingnowisliving- Found on geheugenvannederland.nl.jpg |
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| 1905 muff The Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Fashion by Jacques Fath, 1952 theniftyfifties |
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vintagechampagnefever-tumblr Gloria Vanderbilt and an unnamed model
showcase furs for LIFE magazine (1952) |
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| Model wearing an ensemble with a fur muff for Vogue, 1956 theniftyfifties tumblr |
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| bcbg-rtw-fw 2014-runway blue |
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| photographed and copyright by j daniel sawyer |
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