Mrs. Condé Nast wearing one of the famous Fortuny tea gowns.
Mrs. Condé Nast, Clarisse Coudert, fashion designer, 1917.
Category: Fashion History
Chevalier Charles d’Éon de Beaumont.
He was a transgender/non-binary french spy. one of the most brilliant and contradictory characters of the eighteenth century
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.
The Mitre, The Hat and The Coiffure of Mesopotamia.
Assyrian fashion of both genders. The Mitre, The Hat and the Coiffure of Mesopotamia. The famous Phrygian bonnet. The Tiara and diadem.
ICONS. THE VLADIMIR MADONNA.
Note on the Vladimir Madonna, Vladimirskaya.- Note on the St Alexis Icon. By Robert Steele, Leonard Wharton.