I was a bit stressed today. To calm myself I decided to watch Top Gear while processing French fashions from Les Modes journals found the library of France.
Fashion from Journal Des Dames et Des Modes 1818 — Part II I’m having great fun restoring fashion images from the 1818 editions of Journal Des Dames et Des Mode that I found in the library of France. I should have more pictures ready to post tomorrow or the next day. Click on a thumbnail below to the view the entire image. Enjoy! ...
Fashion from Journal Des Dames et Des Modes 1818 — Part I This afternoon I was glancing through a publication from the Kyoto Costume Institute when I found a reference to “Journal Des Dames.” I hurried back to my computer and found the journal in the library of France! While I was working on my latest WIP, I kept Photoshop running and...
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....
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.)...
1902 Women’s Fashions – Les Modes I was waiting on an email to arrive, so I thought I would check out some Les Modes fashions from 1902. I got a little carried away…...
Fashion from Journal Des Dames et Des Modes 1818 — Part III Here is my final posting of fashions from the 1818 editions of Journal Des Dames et Des Mode that I found in the library of France. I think these images are my favorite of the three gallery posts. Click an image to enlarge and see in its entirety....
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…...
Basking in Beautiful French Fashion from 1908 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...