I never post on Facebook, but I maintain my account, partly because Facebook failed to cancel it despite my request, partly because I still enjoy seeing my friends’ children grow up, and partly because there are a few amazing Facebook groups I follow. One of them, which is a forum for classic 20th-century clothing, is exposing naïve people to the Balenciaga scandal.
The assiduously apolitical group to which I belong is called FASHION OF BYGONE DAYS (1900s-60s) . The group is extremely popular, with 247,400 members. People submit images from photographs, fashion spreads, and magazines. (My favorites are the Edwardian era and the 1950s if you’re wondering.)
A couple of days ago, someone posted this picture of a beautiful evening dress that Cristóbal Balenciaga designed in 1955: The moderator did something unusual to that post, which was to turn off the comments. However, it’s easy to guess why the moderator had […]
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