Evening dresses. Broderies de Maurice Lefranc. Paris 1917.

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Evening dresses 1917

Evening dresses. Broderies de Maurice Lefranc.

Paris Spring Season 1917.

Les ceintures prennent parfois une telle importance, qu ˈelles donnent à elles seules toute la note élégante de la robe. C’est ainsi que la figure,165, en tulle brodé blue et argent, est ornée de girandoles en perles d’argent qui recouvrent tout le corsage.
La figure 766 présente l’originalite d’une très belle ceinture brodée d’or qui forme traine.

Source: Les Élégances Parisiennes. Broderies de Maurice Lefranc.
Paris Spring Season 1917.

Vision o​f Elegance. Getting ready for Deauville. Juli 1923.
THE PARISIAN LADY. FEMME COMME IL FAUT. By Honoré de Balzac
Hat of Camille Roger. Gazette du bon ton, 1922.
Evening dresses by Fructus et Cie. Belle Epoque Fashion France 1916.
A few pretty novelties. Creations by Premet & Jean Patou. 1923.
Belle Époque costumes. Society and Spring toilet in 1906.
Princesse dress. Promenade gown by Maison de couture Félix.
The latest Paris fashion 1898.

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