User:Mabalu

I am a quirky Brit with a strong eccentric streak. I hate talking about myself, so I'll just say the following things:

My interests are very wide-ranging, but foremost is an interest in fashion history and related subjects, particularly British fashion design, though I'm well-versed with other designers as well. I also know quite a bit about social history, and am fascinated by the lives of people and personal histories, and often surprise myself with the random things I know about random things.

I never use a greengrocer's apostrophe, and I know how to use words. In fact, I learned the written word very early on (pre-school) as one might a mother tongue. While I'm not terribly good at parsing sentences or explaining language in technical terms, I instinctively and intuitively know how words should be. I do tend to repeat words and phrases in close proximity to each other within a paragraph or even sentence, and cringe when I realise I've done so. While my spelling is generally good, I often confuse "tion" and "ton" endings and have a tendency to malaprop place-names and celebrities. This causes much amusement amongst my friends.

I have a deep-dyed dislike for the misuse of there/their/they're and similar, although I never actually learned the rules of grammar. I just picked them up as I went along, and I know what's right and, dare I say it - what ain't.

Wonderful resources for editing

 * WP:Twinkle
 * Earwig (copyvio checking)
 * Reflinks (fills in bare URLs)

Articles I have worked on

 * Italics denote an article that I have heavily edited or significantly worked on, rather than created.
 * A name marked with an asterisk was created from a redirect or completely rewritten from scratch.
 * My Did You Know? articles can be viewed here

Fashion & jewellery designers and companies

 * Created - A-M


 * Adri
 * Adolfo
 * Anello & Davide
 * Bill Atkinson
 * Babani
 * Jeffrey Banks
 * Anna Ben-Yusuf
 * Susan Bennis/Warren Edwards
 * David Bond
 * Tom Brigance
 * Marie-Louise Bruyere
 * Kiki Byrne
 * Cadoro
 * Giuliana Camerino
 * Jeanne S. Campbell
 * Marie-Louise Carven
 * Robert Cary-Williams
 * John Cavanagh (designer)
 * John Cavanagh (hatter)
 * Gordon Luke Clarke
 * Jules-François Crahay
 * Lydia de Crescenzo
 * Vicky Davis
 * Marcelle Dormoy
 * Victor Edelstein
 * Florence Eiseman
 * Andrew Fezza
 * Anne Fogarty
 * Graziella Fontana
 * Jessie Franklin Turner
 * Ghost
 * Bill Gibb
 * Goldworm
 * Sandra Gray*
 * Craig Green
 * Olga di Grésy
 * Jacques Griffe
 * Elizabeth Handley-Seymour
 * Elizabeth Hawes
 * Eta Hentz
 * Bobby Hillson
 * Judy Hornby
 * Jacob H. Horwitz
 * Stephen Jones
 * Louise Kennedy
 * Mr. Kenneth
 * Lainey Keogh
 * Emmanuelle Khanh
 * Omar Kiam
 * Ben King
 * Muriel King
 * Shaun Leane
 * Jack Lenor Larsen
 * Dorothy Liebes
 * Edward Mann
 * Luba Marks
 * Nancy Melcher
 * Simone Mirman
 * Monte-Sano & Pruzan
 * Germaine Monteil
 * Mark Mooring
 * Leslie Morris


 * Created - N-Z


 * Christopher Nemeth
 * Clifton Nicholson
 * Obin*
 * Oliver Goldsmith
 * Jennifer Ouellette
 * Emeric Partos
 * Mr Pearl
 * Laura Pearson
 * Sylvia Pedlar
 * Manuel Pertegaz
 * Phelps Associates
 * Mary Ping
 * Anna Potok
 * Clare Potter
 * Catherine Rayner
 * Nell Donnelly Reed
 * Ben Reig
 * Eva Rosencrans
 * Nettie Rosenstein
 * Michèle Rosier
 * Clovis Ruffin
 * Marty Ruza
 * Jean-Louis Scherrer
 * Celia Sebiri
 * Christopher Shannon
 * Bill Smith
 * Mary Lou Spiess
 * Charles Suppon
 * Ruth Tarvydas
 * Thea Tewi
 * Ouigi Theodore
 * Tiktiner*
 * Dominic Toubeix
 * Kosuke Tsumura
 * Maurice Tumarkin
 * Up Tied
 * Rose Valois
 * Joan Vass
 * Giancarlo Venturini*
 * Voris
 * Sophia Webster
 * Chester Weinberg
 * Emily Wilkens
 * Sydney Wragge
 * Betty Yokova
 * Zoran
 * Suzie Zuzek


 * Significantly contributed to:


 * Maureen Baker
 * Armand Basi
 * John Bates
 * Sara Berman
 * Judy Blame
 * George Brooks
 * Beatriz Canedo Patiño‎
 * Salvatore J. Cesarani
 * Louise Chéruit
 * Countess Mara
 * Yiannis Evangelides
 * Douglas Ferguson
 * Foale and Tuffin
 * Andrew Groves
 * Irregular Choice
 * Ottavio Missoni
 * Bianca Mosca
 * Jean Muir
 * Marie-Paule Nolin
 * Jeanne Paquin
 * Robert Piguet
 * Alice Pollock
 * Mary Quant
 * Redfern
 * Boris Bidjan Saberi
 * Elsa Schiaparelli
 * Scottevest
 * Sock Shop
 * Auguste Soesastro
 * Maria Tash
 * Philip Treacy
 * Diana Vincent
 * Sherry Wolf
 * Ben Zuckerman

Fashion terminology

 * Animal hat
 * Bergère hat
 * Boudoir cap
 * Buster Brown suit
 * Challis (fabric)
 * Coatdress
 * Crinoline
 * Crêpe (textile)
 * Delphos gown
 * Dolly Varden (costume)
 * Fascinator
 * Ferronnière
 * Fontange
 * Go-go boot
 * Hair tattoo
 * Harem pants
 * Herigaut
 * Hotpants
 * House dress
 * It Bag
 * Kandys
 * Kidskin
 * Kiss curl
 * Mantle (clothing)
 * Mantua (clothing)
 * Marabou (fashion)
 * Metal corset
 * Metal lace
 * Ombré
 * Pamela hat
 * Paper clothing
 * Peascod belly
 * Polonaise (clothing)
 * Princess line
 * Pussy bow
 * Rainy daisy
 * Red carpet fashion
 * Sack-back gown
 * Sailor dress
 * Sailor hat
 * See-through clothing
 * Shorts
 * Slip dress
 * Sportswear (fashion)
 * Strapless dress
 * Textile sample
 * Vegetable flannel
 * Visite
 * Wamus
 * Warp printing
 * Willy warmer
 * Witzchoura
 * Yak lace
 * Yoke (clothing)
 * Zamarra (coat)

Other people in fashion

 * Lisa Armstrong (writer)
 * Tamsin Blanchard
 * Sandra Boler
 * Marie-Louise Bousquet
 * Ernestine Carter
 * Meredith Etherington-Smith
 * Susannah Frankel
 * Ailsa Garland
 * Sarajane Hoare
 * Jennifer Hocking
 * Min Hogg
 * Ib Kamara
 * Moira Keenan
 * Doris Langley Moore
 * Susanna Lau
 * James Laver
 * Vanessa de Lisle
 * Pablo Manzoni
 * Richard Martin (curator)
 * Helena Matheopoulos
 * Kate Phelan
 * Marian Pritchard
 * Charlie Porter (journalist)
 * Mary Jane Russell
 * Ben Sommers

Awards and organisations in fashion

 * Coty Award
 * Dress of the Year
 * Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers
 * Neiman Marcus Fashion Award

Artists

 * Julian Phelps Allan
 * Zaida Ben-Yusuf
 * Ernest A. Cole
 * Edna Clarke Hall
 * David Laurent de Lara
 * Eileen Ramsay
 * Catherine Rayner
 * Eustațiu Stoenescu
 * Sherrie Wolf

Miscellaneous

 * Baron de Bush
 * Brooklyn Bicycle Co.
 * Eunice Black
 * Chintzware
 * Clothes-Line
 * Fair Charlotte
 * Frozen Charlotte (doll)
 * Rory Cowan
 * Pauline Joran
 * List of fashion designers
 * List of jewellery designers
 * Living Dead Dolls
 * Marghab Linens
 * Micheline Patton
 * Herbert Charles Pollitt
 * Provençal quilts
 * Red carpet fashion in 2000
 * Red carpet fashion in 2001
 * Red carpet fashion in 2002
 * Red carpet fashion in 2007
 * Red carpet fashion in 2008
 * Red carpet fashion in 2009
 * The Dance Lesson
 * Tristan Quilt

Good articles
I have contributed significantly towards the following Good Articles: