Worn #onthisday in 1967 by pro wrestler Samuel "Samba Lumumba" Lewis at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA. "When I put on my uniform, I mean business," he said. "It's not for kicks or fun, it's for money. It's like a woman getting dressed up in her finest gown going to a ball." #OTD 📷 LAPL

Worn #onthisday in 1863 by Princess Victoria, daughter of Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, with her nurse, Mrs. Hannah Clarke, at Windsor Castle, where she had been born two weeks earlier in the presence of her grandmother and namesake, Queen Victoria. #OTD 📷 Royal Collection Trust

Worn #onthisday in 1865 at President Abraham Lincoln's funeral in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Diplomats in ceremonial garb made a "glittering group," per a reporter, while military men were told to wear the "usual badge of mourning" on their left arms and sword hilts. #OTD

Worn #onthisday in 1923 by Ruth Meyers at her #wedding to Leonard H. Heller at the Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis, MN. The gown of white charmeuse with a court train edged in antique rosepoint lace and a matching veil was made by Frances & Co. of New York. #OTD 📷 Minnesota Historical Society

Navy-issued shearling coat worn #onthisday in 1943 by Lt. George Kletzker, a Coast Guard gunnery officer serving aboard the USCG Cutter Spencer in the Atlantic southwest of Ireland, when the ship sank a German U-boat, U-175, and captured its crew. #OTD @mohistorymuseum.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1994 by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder when the band performed on Saturday Night Live in New York, NY, eight days after Kurt Cobain’s death. Vedder wrote “KURDT” on his guitar and a “K” over his heart on his T-shirt in trubute. #OTD @gettyimages.com

Uncle Sam costume and sunglasses worn #onthisday in 2009 by a Florida man protesting in front of the State Capitol in Tallahassee, FL, as part of a "Tax Day Tea Party." #OTD 📷 State Library and Archives of Florida

Worn #onthisday in 1963--Easter Sunday--by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in Palm Beach, FL, with white gloves and a white lace mantilla. The mauve linen sheath by Oleg Cassini has a decorative quatrefoil motif reminiscent of a cross applied to front. #OTD @jfklibraryfdn.bsky.social

Matching Easter bonnets and dresses worn #onthisday in 1952--Easter Sunday--by the 19-month-old Coles quadruplets of London: Patricia, Frances, Edna, and Marie. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social

Face covering worn #onthisday in 2003 by a woman protesting the Iraq War in downtown Washington D.C. The anti-war demonstration was organized by the ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition, founded 3 days after the attacks of September 11, 2011. #OTD 📸 Ben Schumin, Wikimedia Commons

Beaded white Bob Mackie gown worn #onthisday in 1983 by Cher, who joined Placido Domingo to present the Academy Award for Best Score to John Williams for "E.T." in Los Angeles, CA. #OTD @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social @theacademyusa.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1908 at an Arbor Day tree-planting at Public School #4 in New York, NY. First celebrated in Nebraska in 1872, Arbor Day has now inspired similar festivities worldwide. #OTD @librarycongress.bsky.social

Houndstooth suit worn #onthisday in 1959 by Jacqueline Kennedy to attend Mass on the campaign trail with her husband in Middleburg, VA. Designer Bob Bugnand had salons in Paris and New York; though his US clients were fitted in New York, their clothes were Paris-made. #OTD @jfklibraryfdn.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1962 by Joan Crawford to the rehearsal for the next day's Academy Awards ceremony at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, CA. She presented the Best Actor award, serving champagne to the backstage crew in her dressing room while awaiting her cue. #OTD @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social

Costumes worn #onthisday in 1962 by the Hollywood Square Dancers to perform in the 15th annual International Folk Dance Festival at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA, hosted by actress Greer Garson. #OTD @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social

Court suit and sword worn #onthisday in 1870 by Charles Dickens to a levee at Buckingham Palace. The suit, made by tailors Charles Smith and Sons according to the strict specifications for court dress, is the only known suit worn by Dickens to have survived. #OTD 📷 Guildhall Art Gallery

Worn #onthisday in 1924 by children dressed up for a mock #wedding in Coral Gables, FL. #OTD 📷 State Library and Archives of Florida

Worn #onthisday in 1960 by Janet Leigh at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, CA. Edith Head designed the 20-lb. gown of 186,000 silver-lined Czechoslovakian bugle beads hand-crocheted to chiffon dyed to match Leigh's skin. #OTD @gettyimages.com @theacademyusa.bsky.social 📷 Wisconsin Historical Society

Silk wedding gown and lace veil decorated with wax orange blossoms worn #onthisday in 1929 by Domenica San Giorgio at her #wedding. #OTD @thehenryford.bsky.social

Hat worn #onthisday in 1801 by Admiral Horatio Nelson when he led the Royal Navy to victory at the Battle of Copenhagen. He gave it to his sword cutler, Mr. Salter, who displayed it in his shop window, black card replacing the chelengk the Ottoman sultan gave Nelson. #OTD 📷 Royal Museums Greenwich

Suit, shirt and yarmulke worn #onthisday in 1989 by Michael Endelman for his Bar Mitzvah at Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, MI. He and his father bought the suit--Michael's first--at J.L. Hudson, a local department store. #OTD @thehenryford.bsky.social

Lurex and silk "Menina" dress worn #onthisday in 2005 by its creator, Spanish fashion designer Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada, to the launch of her first perfume, Corazón, in Paris. The silhouette evokes the farthingales depicted by 17th-century Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1939 by reigning Rose Queen Barbara Dougall in a fashion show of "chic garden wear" at the Pasadena Flower Show in Pasadena, CA. The Central Press described her play suit of "plain shirt and printed shorts" with "a full peasant-style wrap-around skirt and rope-soled garden shoes."

Worn #onthisday in 1932 by Lady Chaytor, making a tour by air on the Continent giving lectures on dress, wearing aviation dress at a ball given at the Grand Hotel de Pera in Constantinople, Turkey. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1920 by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford at their #wedding in Beverly Hills, CA. The intimate, top-secret home ceremony was the second for both actors. Pickford wore "a simple white tulle gown with apple green trimming" per the Post-Record, one stocking turned inside-out. #OTD

Matching outfits worn #onthisday in 1937 by twin brothers William and Walter Woffinden and their fiancees, twin sisters Veda and Vida Lucas. The photo was taken before the brothers left Salt Lake City, UT, for England, where they would spend two years on a Mormon mission. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1883 at the Vanderbilt's costume ball in New York, NY. The Sun warned: "Sober-minded men ask themselves whether it is advisable to make such a display of wealth and luxurious living at at time when the working classes are in a state of serious fermentation." #OTD 📷 NY Historical

Foustanelas (Greek kilts) worn #onthisday in 1925--Greek Independence Day--by flag-bearers entering the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, a 4th century BC athletic field rebuilt for the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 for. #OTD @europeana.bsky.social

Mary McFadden gown worn #onthisday in 1986 by Ally Sheedy to present the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subjects with Steve Guttenberg in Los Angeles, CA. The ivory gown has McFadden's signature classically-inspired pleating. #OTD @theacademyusa.bsky.social @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1929 by aviatrix Amelia Earhart to read letters over the radio to Admiral Richard Byrd's Antarctic expedition. #OTD @misci-ny.bsky.social