I was a good girl for nine full days and wrote blog posts chocked full of information. As a reward to myself and because Thursday is my favorite day of the week, I’m posting historic fashion eye candy from “Les Modes” in 1908. And I’m not including any pesky historical information to get in the way of the visuals.
That’s all from me this week. If I get motivated over the weekend, I might try to transcribe more of The London Adviser and Guide. But, I feel a bad case of spring fever coming on. I ache to stretch out on a deck chair, sip mojitos, listen to Astrud Gilberto, and look at all the pretty flowers.
French Fashion from the 1840s. t’s the weekend! Happy shopping, baking, wrapping, partying, or just lounging about sipping hot chocolate and watching holiday movies (or K-dramas, in my case.) Here’s a slideshow of fashion illustrations to make you smile. They’re from the mid-1840s and found in Les Modes Parisiennes....
French Fashion – 1910 I have many blog entries planned, some on very serious topics like war and health. But I can’t stop looking at “Les Modes.” I promise that after this post, I won’t blog about “Les Modes” for at least a week (maybe) But the dresses are so pretty…...
Lovely French Fashion from 1909 I’m not having the best day, so I’m posting some pretty dresses from Les Modes. Click on an image to enlarge it....
Fashion from Paris – Les Modes February 1907 After a long, busy week, I’m rewarding myself with a glass of prosecco and fashions from 1907. Click on an image to enlarge it! Happy Friday! ...
Lovely Hats and Gowns in Les Modes 1908 The children are going back to school tomorrow! I’m celebrating by creating a gallery of beautiful fashion from Les Modes 1908. Click on an image to enlarge it. ...
Beautiful Actresses and Fashions from the Early 1920s Today I’m posting images of silent film actresses in fabulous clothes, which I found in the Library Of Congress archives. These photographs date between 1920 – 1925. However, it is possible that a few earlier images might have slipped in. Sadly, I had to crop out many of the photographs’...
Beautiful Friday – 1912 Fashions and The Wild Flower Fairy Book Let’s start off Friday with some lovely images that I found at BNF. These photographs come from the November 1912 issue of Elegancias : Revista Mensual Ilustrada Artística, Literaria, Modas y Actualidades. Click on an image to expand. I found this gorgeous 1905 volume The Wild Flower Fairy Book at...
1860s French Fashions and English Ballroom Etiquette I found some great images by French photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Wikimedia Commons. Rather than create a huge picture gallery, I’m adding an excerpt on ballroom etiquette found in Routledge’s Manual of Etiquette published in 1875 (although similar versions were around in the 1860s.)...
Parisian Manners and Fashion in the 1830s Today I’m excerpting from The Gentleman and Lady’s Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment: Dedicated to the Youth of Both Sexes by Elizabeth Celnart and translated from the Paris edition in 1833. The beautiful illustrations are from an 1836 issue of the famous French journal Le Bon Ton, which, oddly...
6 Replies to “Basking in Beautiful French Fashion from 1908”
how did they go to potty?
@Nancy, I don’t want to think about it. I suppose I could get off the porch rocker and go look it up in my book on historical underwear…maybe later.
Oh this I know….
They didn’t wear panties/underwear as we think of them They wore crotchless shorts. So there is nothing between where one pees and the fresh air — so to speak. You just had to aim well.
But I love the dresses and want them.
@Abigail, I love how you always know the details. What about that long underwear looking thing. I want the blue dress.
The dresses are really beautiful. I cringe at corsets. Can you believe the size of some of the waists? Great post.
@Ella – I think this has to be the most brutal age of women’s dress. In so many of these images, the women look like they are going to tip over. Their chests are drawn so high and their waists so small. But the dresses do look stunning. Suffering to be beautiful. Thank heavens for the 1920s fashion.
how did they go to potty?
@Nancy, I don’t want to think about it. I suppose I could get off the porch rocker and go look it up in my book on historical underwear…maybe later.
Oh this I know….
They didn’t wear panties/underwear as we think of them They wore crotchless shorts. So there is nothing between where one pees and the fresh air — so to speak. You just had to aim well.
But I love the dresses and want them.
@Abigail, I love how you always know the details. What about that long underwear looking thing. I want the blue dress.
The dresses are really beautiful. I cringe at corsets. Can you believe the size of some of the waists? Great post.
@Ella – I think this has to be the most brutal age of women’s dress. In so many of these images, the women look like they are going to tip over. Their chests are drawn so high and their waists so small. But the dresses do look stunning. Suffering to be beautiful. Thank heavens for the 1920s fashion.