What a dandy was to the Regency, and an exquisite to the Elizabethans, a dude was to the late 19th century.
Gay Nineties. Dude wardrobe with bowler and lady in afternoon costume.
Category: North America
North America costume
Sarah Baro Bolcher. An African Princess in Topsfield.
The princess, who gave her name as Sarah Baro Colcher, was given to Captain Dodge who brought her home to his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Dodge Conant, in Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA.
Native Californian clothing at the end of the 18th century.
The engravings depicting Californian native people, taken from the Encyclopedia of Travels by Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, a five-volume work published in Paris in 1795-1796.
Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Women pirates. The Golde Age of piracy.
THE life of a pirate on the high seas was hardly likely to attract even the most adventurous woman, yet according to records left by Captain Charles Johnson there were at least two who followed that calling, dressed in sailors’ clothes, and who lived and fought in desperate frays in the early eighteenth century.
Glimpses of Gotham. Men and women who deal in fancy costumes.
Glimpses of Gotham and city characters. Men and women who deal in fancy costumes. New York, 1881. Actresses Lizzie Kelsey, Pauline Markham, Emily Duncan, Eliza Wetherby, Fanny Louise Buckingham.
Mrs. Condé Nast, Clarisse Coudert, fashion designer, 1917.
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… Read More
Chief Dakota, Mandan squaw costumes
Chief Dakota, Mandan squaw costumes
Robe from the Chilkat country, NW. Coast of America.
Robe from the Chilkat country, NW. Coast of America.
Harvester at Berkshire County Mass. 1899
Harvester at Berkshire County Mass. 1899
Gwitchin. Peoples of Alaska in 1850th.
Gwitchin. Peoples of Alaska in 1850th.
