19th century paris fashion

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Five women are depicted in a salon. The woman on the far left wears a straw hat trimmed with purple and yellow plumes. Her dress is purple with a high collar and long sleeves. Her bodice has buttons down the center front and ends in a point below her waist. The skirt has bands of ruching and a draped back of purple velvet. The woman next to her wears her hair dressed back, with curled bangs, adorned with small yellow flowers. There are more flowers as a corsage on her right shoulder. Her…

1870. Evening ensembles, Les Modes Parisiennes

Fashion Plate, 'Paris, Ball Dress' for 'Ladies' Pocket Magazine', Joseph Robins, England, London, circa 1830, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

This is the third and final post on the construction of my Raspberry Mint Sorbet bustle dress completed back in May If you’re just joining now, here’s the first post, about the skirts, …

Final phase of the Bustle period: shelflike projection of the skirt, no train, high boned collar, elaborately decorative hat

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London Fashions 1885

The launch of Christian Dior's New Look in 1947 marked the beginning of a momentous decade in fashion history, one that Dior himself called the 'golden age'.

parismode fashion plate 8. late 1880s day dress with stripped cuffs and waist cinch (corsetlet)