German baroque fashion in 1644. Matron, maid, citizen.
Category: Fashion History
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.
The latest Paris fashion 1898.
The latest Paris fashion, Belle Epoque. Toilette de Réception. February 1898.
Chevalier Charles d’Éon de Beaumont.
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont, known as “chevalier d’Éon” (1728- 1810) was a diplomat, spy, officer and man of letters from France.
The Parisian Lady. La femme comme il faut. Honoré de Balzac
As the botanist detects among the hills and valleys some choice and unexpected prize, so you, amid Parisian vulgarities, have encountered a rare and exquisite blossom! It is the PARISIAN LADY!-the “FEMME COMME IL FAUT.”
Shoe fashion of the 17th and 18th century.
Examples of combined shoes and clogs. Shoe fashion of the baroque and rococo period.
Assyrian Blouses and Ensembles. Costumes common to both sexes.
Babylonian gown. Tunic, blouses and ensembles. Costumes common to both sexes. The Luxurious Assyrian Costumes
Robe d’après-midi de Georges Dœuillet
Les Soeurs de Lait – Robe d’après-midi de Georges Dœuillet
Robe du soir, de Paul Poiret, 1920s.
Le Jardin de L’Infante – Robe du soir, de Paul Poiret.
The warlike women in Asia Minor. Assyrian Garments and Dresses.
Garments and Dresses of the most sporting women of antiquity. Warlike women in Asia Minor.