EditorialGrande robe du soir, corsage de mousseline chair tunique de soie brodée dans la go?t de la "Compagnie des Inden". Costumes Parisiens no.69. Woman wearing an evening dress with a chiffon bodice and a silk embroidered tunic. She is also wearing a red s...
EditorialWoman in redingote of striped taffeta over a skirt and corsage with artificial flowers, and a chapeau-feutre in apple green. Hand-coloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885. The j...
EditorialGown created for Jane Hading by Laferrière for her European tour. A costume of shot corn-coloured taffetas glacé boacaded with a design in white velvet. Down the front of the skirt is a tablier of course string-coloured guipure underneath which flows...
Editorial'A visiting dress of mulberry cloth created by Lejeune-Soinard ... The skirt is trimmed with two shaped flounces, nearly flat; in the centre of each is a band of chinchilla, surrounded by a sort of castellated Greek design in mauve velvet edged with bl...
EditorialThe bunch of violets, 1872. A tribute to Berthe Morisot, to whom the letter in the painting is addressed. The same flowers are used as a corsage in Manet's " Berthe Morisot with a bunch of violets". Oil on canvas,22 x 27 cm.
EditorialDesign by Paquin. it is cut en princesse, the soft green velvet clinging to the lines of the figure. The deep flounce and and the corsage are embroidered at intervals with great bunches of violets and the latter which is décolleté over a guimpe of gu...
EditorialDesign by Barroin. An evening dress. It is made of black mousseline de soie, the over-skirt draped back in festoons which are caught up at intervals with full rosettes of black velvet. It opens over a petticoat of white satin veiled with pleated mousse...
EditorialDesign by Mesdammes Emma and Marie Weille. An afternoon toilette. Made in the princesse form it is lightly draped across the waist and fastens on the left side with buttons of turquoise. The skirt is cut out in a waved edge bordered with the sable over...
EditorialDesign by Doucet. 'This ball or dinner gown is made in soft rose satin, the skirt arranged at the back with three graceful flounces of lace. The tablier of guipure, bordered with ermine, repeats the design upon the back and front part of corsage. The s...
EditorialDesign by Beer. Dinner dress for the Princess Ouroussoff. It is composed entirely of lace. A graceful line of mauve velvet is arranged upon the skirt, and corsage. The sleeves are cut out and edged with velvet. The opening caught together by jewelled b...