a guide toHairstyles(with lots of portraits), an outline ofSurface Features(colors, embroidery, trims, influences),How to Fake it: A Guide to the Silhouette(lots of gorgeous period gowns), andWhen One Tiara is not Enoughfor over the top jewels. It's All in the Details: Making a Regency...
The evolution of photography brought social changes. The living room now contained a heavy album with portraits of family members, to which were added albums containing collections of now immediately identifiable celebrities, of art, curiosities, and faraway places. Hidden in secret drawers were new ...
HISTORYThe article discusses the depiction of history of Victorian naturalists in the works of artist Mark Dion. It discusses Dion and J.Morgan Puett's photographic series" The Ladies' Field Club of York" which included portraits of women including "Lepidoptery, Mrs...
LADIES’ MAGAZINESflourished in the 19thand early 20thCenturies. During this time illustrations of ladies’ fashions were beginning to be seen in abundance. These magazines and books are an invaluable resource, for both their editorial content and advertisements.Vintage Dress Series ...
(Portraits of English Royals – just before Victoria’s influence, showing the large sleeves, low waist, and style coming out of Regency – with the subtle differences as Victorians began to create the demure and more “feminine” look using ringlets, bonnets, and emphasis on the waist) By ...
In 1922, Emily Post added a brief addendum to this, clarifying what a man should do if he’s fortunate enough to be walking with two ladies: “A gentleman, whether walking with two ladies or one, takes the curb side of the pavement. He should never sandwich himself between them....
The map above shows the block behind the hospital that housed the hospital laundry and ‘dead house’. In November 1884 there were calls from the Ladies’ Committee to provide a separate mortuary so that the ‘dead house’ need no longer serve as both mortuary and post-mortem room: ‘…not...
With a strong sense of the theatrical, her style evolved from traditional portraits, to highly stylised and slightly surreal images in the 1930s; when she famously used The Vivex Colour Process to photograph society ladies in roles from classical mythology. Realising the highly romanticised images...
The hero of the novel, Colonel Esmond, is represented as telling his own story; he speaks as a gentleman spoke in those days, telling us about the politicians, soldiers, ladies and literary men of his time, with frank exposure of their manners or morals. As a realistic portrayal of an ...
Victorian Sterling Silver Model of a Shoe, London 1893 Import Antique Victorian Ladies Leather Piedmont Shoes Boots Mercantile Store Display H 11.5 in W 3 in D 10 in Victorian Wax Flower Basket Still Life Under Oval Glass Dome II H 16 in W 14 in D 10 in ...