THE dress of these women is one of the most interesting of Dutch costumes. A quaint characteristic is the plait of hair on either side of the face, worn alike by young and old.
Source: The people of Holland by Nico Jungman. London, Adam and Charles Black 1910.
Mrs. Condé Nast wearing one of the famous Fortuny tea gowns.
Mrs. Condé Nast wearing one of the famous Fortuny tea gowns.
This one has no tunic but is finely pleated, in the Fortuny manner, and falls in long lines, closely following the figure, to the floor.
Observe the decorative value of the long string of beads.
Clarisse Coudert, a fashion designer, was the wife of the owner of the fashion magazine Vogue, Vanity Fair, Condé Montrose Nast. The couple separated in 1919 and divorced in Paris in 1925.
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Indonesian Culture. Fabrics and Weapons of the Malays.The Malay (Orang Melayu) are an ethnic group in Southeast Asia. They belong to the Austronesian ethnic groups and speak the Malay language, whose modern expressions are Malay and Indonesian. Today about 22 million people are counted among the Malay people, who mainly live on the Malay Peninsula, in the east of Sumatra and on the coasts of Borneo. The majority of the population are Malays in Malaysia (50.4%), in the Sultanate of Brunei (66%), in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand (66-80%) and in the Indonesian province of Bangka-Belitung (72%). The vast majority of Malays (> 99.9 %) are Sunni Muslims.
Malabar pepper plantationPlantation workers harvest pepper in the historic, fabulous Malabar, today’s Kerala, one of the few remaining matriachates (The caste of Nair) in the world. Continue reading
The dress of the Arabs. Affluent class.
Costumes Near East. ARABIA.
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Lithuania (Source: Albert Kretschmer)
THE manifold influences to which Lithuania has been subjected in the course of centuries sufficiently account for the characteristic diversity of the basic elements in its peasant art as a whole. This “Volkskunst” (Folkart) forms a conglomeration of various ethnographic elements which frequently present sharp contrasts. Continue reading
Les Soeurs de Lait. Foster sisters – Afternoon dress by Dœuillet
