Monografia mea "The Women of 'Little Paris': Fashion in Interwar Bucharest" ( @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 2024) se găsește la Cărturești (în varianta broșată, evident)! Dacă poate cineva o vede pe vreun raft, să-mi trimită și mie o fotografie, ca să o văd cum îi stă la promenadă!

Now available in paperback! @soniadandras.bsky.social combs through diaries, photographs and archives to reveal the story of gender, dress and modernity in Romania and beyond. Get your copy here: bit.ly/4gTPsk3

What better birthday present than the release of the paperback edition of my @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social monograph "The Women of 'Little Paris': Fashion in Interwar Bucharest" (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024 - and now paperback since 25 June 2025!!!). @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Paperweight https://collections.artsmia.org/art/18207/

Quite the start to my two-week @circleu.bsky.social mobility at @centremarcbloch.bsky.social ! My first day began with a fantastic and informative talk and conversation with Arjun Appadurai (see the link: cmb.hu-berlin.de/events/can-d...

I am happy to announce that I will begin a two-week short-term research mobility at the @centremarcbloch.bsky.social at @humboldtuni.bsky.social next week. This opportunity is made possible through a @circleu.bsky.social Postdoc Mobility Fellowship.

New publication alert! My article "Romanian Rockefeller Fellows: An Interwar Story" was recently published on the Rockefeller Fellows blog (DOI doi.org/10.58079/16833).

On this day in 1929 Audrey Hepburn was born. Her wardrobe, on and off screen, featured many designs by Hubert de Givenchy, embellished treat worn in the 1956 movie Love in the Afternoon. Sold via #KerryTaylorAuct #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

It's so great to see long-term projects taking shape! My upcoming edited book, now titled "The Enduring Influence of Paris Fashion in a Globalised World", will be available from 4 February 2027 with Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Dress Cultures series)!

I am grateful for the thoughtful review by Alexandra Ghiț of my first monograph, “The Women of ‘Little Paris’: Fashion in Interwar Bucharest” (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Dress Cultures, 2024), @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

She looks like a porcelain doll in a smooth blue and white painted dress, perched somewhere on a shelf and sited every so often. She is in fact a heavily embroidered early #1960s ballgown and bolero by Marguery Bolhagen @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Publication alert! My paper "Negotiating Women’s Bodies: An Artistic Exploration of Coercion and Agency in Interwar Romanian Gendered Advice Literature" has just been published in the Journal of Romanian Studies ! #fashion #romania #women #beauty #coercion #agency #adviceliterature

Negotiating Women’s Bodies: An Artistic Exploration of Coercion and Agency in Interwar Romanian Gendered Advice Literature | Journal of Romanian Studies

This paper analyzes how gendered advice literature informed societal perceptions of women’s bodies in interwar Romania, in conjunction with popular music and film. It discusses the changing understandings of beauty within a broader research project on ...

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I'm so thrilled to have been part of an amazing panel at the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies - BASEES 2026 Conference at the University of Birmingham, chaired by Julia Secklehner. baseesconference.org

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The paperback edition of my Bloomsbury Visual Arts monograph will be available on 25 June 2026! #fashion #paperback #books #interwar #romania #womensfashion #bucharest #interwarromania #interwarbucharest #moda #mode @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

Publication alert! My paper “Nurse Between the Lines: Romanian Female Rockefeller Foundation Fellows in Medical Professions in-between Innovation and Suppression” has been published in the Yearbook of the »Gheorghe Şincai« Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy.

I am so happy that @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social has included my first monograph “The Women of 'Little Paris': Fashion in Interwar Bucharest” (Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2024, Dress Cultures @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social ) again on a display at the @aseees.bsky.social 2025 Annual Convention on “Memory”,

I am delighted to share a very recent review of my monograph “The Women of ‘Little Paris’” (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024, Dress Cultures Series @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social ) by Dr Georgiana Țăranu in the latest issue of the “Historical Yearbook”.

Last week, I had the great pleasure and privilege of being part of a fantastic panel chaired by @granttharward.bsky.social, with @manuelaboatca.bsky.social as our discussant, at the @as Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies ( @aseees.bsky.social ) 2025 Virtual Convention.

Suit https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/99819

So much of the design of this early #1930s dress is about a trick of the eye - the trompe l’oeil - created in the illusion of pleats from the placement of the beadwork that covers the entire garment. Designed by Jean Patou it shimmers in pink and gold #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Stole https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/101877

Mitts https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/96967

Robe de Style https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/101119

What a great expected birthday present! My monograph “The Women of 'Little Paris': Fashion in Interwar Bucharest” (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024) will be released as a paperback on 25 June 2026. @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

Delft Shoe, one of a pair https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8950/

Oh just some ole thing I slung on for an evening in front of the TV, is it a bit too much? Jacques Fath casually (but not really) draping some teal satin over one shoulder that drapes into a stole should a chill descend, mid #1950s @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Captured mid twirl, Balenciaga’s early #1960s golden gown with its beaded bodice sparkles above the layered silk organza. A swathe of a stole floats about the gown, caught in the act of movement #cincyartmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

If you had to choose a pie, would you prefer a Listman Pie or a banana terracotta pie?

In The Women of ‘Little Paris’ (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024), Sonia-Doris Andraș examines middle-class women in interwar Bucharest and their consumption of fashion, offering readers a glimpse into a modernising Romania. Mariana Neţ reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-f...

The fashionable women of interwar Bucharest - CEU Review of Books

Mariana Neţ reviews The Women of ‘Little Paris’ (Bloomsbury, 2024) by Sonia-Doris Andraș, describing the book as a kaleidoscope of information, providing valuable insights into the country’s nation-bu...

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The pattern running up and and down the length of this mid #1870s white cotton dress consists of meandering, interlocking blue feathers, drifting silently from head to toe #thekyotocostumeinstitute #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡