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evening dress
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maker unknown, Grand Rapids Public Museum
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edwardianchic · 4 months
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Illustrirte Frauen-Zeitung Vol XXII, No 1, November 1, 1895 Plate 1145
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A cat stalks a robin. Studies in reading. 1922.
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edwardianchic · 5 months
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It really makes me laugh when transphobes are like "no one back in the day cross dressed or played with gender, it's just a trend" shut up look at this Lesbian couple from my home (when it used to be Kingdom of Hungary, Budapest) in 1920s who dressed in half traditional femme and masc wedding attire
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edwardianchic · 6 months
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Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.
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edwardianchic · 7 months
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William H Mason, Sleeping Cat, 1870s
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edwardianchic · 8 months
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The last star of the silent film era died yesterday at 101.  Diana Serra Cary started in films when she was 19 months old, as “Baby Peggy.” Like a lot of other child stars she was exploited, overworked, supported her entire family with her earnings, was considered “washed up” before she was 10 and was left with nothing as an adult. At 17 she ran away from home, knowing that her parents wanted her to work in films forever and she needed a way out. 
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She eventually married an artist, opened a bookstore, and became an author and historian. Her 1978 nonfiction book Hollywood’s Children traced the exploitation of child actors from the 1800s onward. She also released Whatever Happened to Baby Peggy? a memoir of her child star years, pulling no punches on the abuse she suffered at the hands of her parents, directors and studios, who put her to work eight hours a day, six days a week and had her doing her own stunts before she was five. This scene here, from The Darling of New York? Not special effects. They actually put this small child in a burning room and she almost didn’t get out because they accidentally fired all the doors and windows. In 2011 a documentary about her, The Elephant in the Room, was released. She released her last book, a novel, at the age of 100.  She never got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She’s not remembered much in film histories. But she was one of the pioneers, and with her, the last of the silent era stars is gone. 
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edwardianchic · 9 months
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Forget-me-not silk postcard.
I recently acquired this unusual postcard from the early 1900′s. It’s called a ‘FAB’ Patchwork Card because it contains a silk patchwork square. The idea was to collect enough different designs to make a patchwork cushion or maybe a quilt with. It was manufactured by W. N. Sharpe of Bradford, England.
To remove the patch from the postcard you had to cut around the dotted line. There are many really lovely floral designs in this series. W. N. Sharpe produced many different series of cards - Edwardian actresses/personalities, views of London, heraldic crests etc.
Own scan from my own postcard..
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edwardianchic · 9 months
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Postcards, ca. 1908 
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edwardianchic · 11 months
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Embroidered “Evening Dress” worn by Queen Maud of Norway, circa 1905-10.
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edwardianchic · 1 year
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Dickies from the 1940s: Simplicity 9448
This re-issued pattern offers up variations on the dickey–one of those forgotten pieces of clothing. Or it is an accessory? Hard to say.
As you can see here, dickeys were pretend blouses that filled up the front of another garment. They might be worn under anything from a dress or a sweater to a suit jacket which you then never unbuttoned. Instead of an actual blouse, portions of the front and the back of a blouse with collar were made which were then kept in place by a bit of elastic at the waistline here, and with tabs and snaps or even ties in other examples. These run the range from tailored and snappy with a little bow to draped and trimmed with a tiny bit of lacy edging.
Why bother to make them? Because of a shortage of money or goods and the desire to inject  some variety into a small wardrobe. During World War II, prosperity increased for many Americans as so many jobs were available, but shortages of fabrics and all kinds of other goods were common. The Make Do and Mend campaign encouraged women to recycle or to upcycle what they had in the way of clothing, and avoid any form of waste. Sewing and knitting efforts to made do and mend were featured in many magazine articles and in pamphlets devoted to the effort.
So, one solution was to make some dickeys. Most of these full dickeys require no more than a yard of fabric and the small collars require even less. Any of them might be made from remnants left over from earlier projects or from some old clothing that was worn out in places, but still had some good sections of fabrics. I understand the urge. Even now a silk blouse, sadly stained under the arms, sits in my closet as I ponder whether I could make a draped collar from the rest of it? We shall see.
You can find this pattern at your local fabric store or online here: https://www.simplicity.com/simplicity-storefront-catalog/patterns/brands/simplicity-sewing-pattern-s9448-misses-dickey-set/
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edwardianchic · 1 year
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Recent Acquisition - Postcard Collection
To My Darling. Postmarked March 1908.
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Luna , 1940 Vratislav Nechleba (Czech, 1885–1965)
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Ginger Rogers and David Niven in Bachelor Mother (1939) dir. Garson Kanin
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Look, when the moths are learning I got here an all-wool suit… one moth tells the other. They’re coming for a banquet. They’re bringing their friends. Pretty soon, I got here a moth convention. A spray gun I gotta buy, insecticide I gotta buy… all night long, I am staying and spraying. I’m not coming home. My wife is getting mad. She’s leaving for Reno. She’s getting a divorce. What am I getting? Custody of the moths. Alimony I am paying. Payments I’m missing. To jail I’m going. My business I’m losing. I’m a bum. All because you are bringing in here an all-wool suit.
IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE  1947, dir. Roy Del Ruth
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