After World War I, the fashion landscape shifted like tectonic plates. Once reserved for aristocrats and the affluent, high fashion had taken a noticeably more attainable turn, allowing middle class men and women in on the fun. Some luxurious textiles were finally affordable, making it possible f...
The picture shows it is not as short as fashion plates or commercial fashion photos in magazines of the same date, but shows a woman trying to keep up to date with the rapidly rising hemline. Fashionable long coat will look stylish if worn along with classy pants. 1920s Attire Pictures 19...
20 color plates! ladies’, misses’, and girls’ gowns undergarments & corsets shoes, stockings & fashion accessories shawls, coats & wraps hairstyles & headdresses gentlemen’s formalwear original period descriptions including colors, fabrics and yardages fashion reports & forecasts first edition Aug...
The relations between the physical and the psychic are evidenced during this period “as a general movement and multiplicity, rather than just a series of mechanisms.” What surrounds the metaphysical body, its environment, is enacted as a performance upon the body through a “continuous set of ...
The fashion plates and their accompanying texts were examined in the following: Godey's Lady's Book, 1850-1914; Peterson's Magazine, 1850-1897; Harper's Bazar, 1867-1920; The Delineator, 1881-1894, 1910-1920; and Ladies Home Journal, 1883-1920. A survey of general social conditions was ...