1920s fashion illustrations

French fashion illustrations of the twenties : 634 cuts from La Vie parisienne

by Grafton, Carol Belanger
Publication date 1987
Topics Vie Parisienne, Fashion, Clothing and dress, France Women’s clothing Fashion design, 1920-1930
Publisher New York : Dover Publications
Collection printdisabled; inlibrary; internetarchivebooks; china
Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive
Contributor Internet Archive
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I’m so glad I decided to go looking for resources today 🙂 This book was either at school or at a very local library. Very worth being on the waitlist for. A lot of the designs really test our perceptions of what the era really looked like.

mary of teck

I have had a poor photocopy of this image for a very long time. I love this particular style so very much and unusually for me I forgot to source it. But this is a style I have just loved so much. The heavy lace, the pleated and double neckline. I keep looking for more photos of this sitting.

But I remembered it was a book that included royal wedding fashions. And this is the book that has a selection I haven’t seen since.

A hundred years of royal style

by McDowell, Colin
Publication date 1985
Topics Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-, Queens, Costume, Costume
Publisher London : Muller, Blond & White
Collection printdisabled; inlibrary; internetarchivebooks; americana
Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive
Contributor Internet Archive
Language EnglishBibliography: p. 186-188
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duchess of portland

Another image I have adored since I got a library card. I have the collated version of the book this was in, but this doesn’t appear in it. This is from the Visual History series of costume books.

Basically she just has this incredible gown and expression of total confidence that she absolutely nails it.

Clearly she had a thing for this collar as she wears another it in a portrait by Sargent! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred_Cavendish-Bentinck,_Duchess_of_Portland

The nineteenth century

by Foster, Vanda
Publication date 1984Topics Costume
Publisher London : Batsford
Collection printdisabled; inlibrary; internetarchivebooks; china
Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation
Contributor Internet Archive
Language English
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