Textile Sample Book 1818, French (Lyons). | THE MET
Lady Selina Meade (c.1793-1872), artist unknown. Lady Selina wears an Empire or early post-Napoléonic dress with diaphanous sleeves under a hurluberlu coiffure with bun. | Bonham's
Hand Drawing from Madame Grès - Spring/Summer 1948 - by Madame Alix Grès (1903-1993) | (source: x)
Second Empire Fashion plates from Petit Courier des Dames 1852-5.
Fashion diagram showing silhouettes from 1794-1887.
Edwardian Fashion. Lady in an ostrich feather hat.
'Seated Woman In Black Dress' - by Henry Patrick Raleigh (1880-1944)
Paul Iribe, Jeanne Lanvin Cleopatre Illustration - 1925. Gouache on paper of woman in blue cocktail dress
The Suffragette look - 1910 The 'Suffragette Look' as worn by Norah Balls. The suffragette uniform was introduced in 1908. During the winter months members of the WSPU were required to wear 'full dress uniform' of a ' white frock with regalia and colours' to all indoor meetings and breakfast receptions. During the summer months this uniform was also worn to all outdoor processions and rallies. (source: photograpgh from The London Museum)
Elizabeth of Austria is portrayed by the French court painter François Clouet in a brocade gown and a partlet with a lattice of jewels, 1571. The lattice partlet is a common French fashion.
A row of Harrod's employees each wearing a uniform of a diffrent womans service. (9 in total)
Picture Post was a prominent photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957. This issue (June 1943) shows how the austerity rules had made a big impact on clothes design, this article stresses the practicality and go-anywhere styles of the new designs. Chic styled utilty clothes.