#fashion history

Which day dress would you rather wear? -1937s 1.left 🤍 ❌️ 2. centre ❤️▫️ 3. 🤍💜

Extremely interesting.

Costume Parisien Fashion Plate, 1820 From Paris Musees, les Musees de la Ville de Paris

American evening dress:Bodice, Skirt and Underbodice, Silk brocade, cotton, linen, lace, circa 1850

Costume Parisien Fashion Plate, 1819 From Paris Musees, les Musees de la Ville de Paris

Which outfit would you rather wear? ( Magazine, , Women’s Review 1936 Warsaw) 1.left 💧➿️ 2. centre left ⬛️🔸️🔹️ 3.cntre 🟢 4.centre right 🌻 5. right 🌹 See Results

Which day dress would you rather wear? 1937s 1. left 💐 2. centre 🏵 3. right ❇️

—THE CHERUSQUE, A VISUAL HISTORY OF FASHION. The cherusque was a collar made of starched fine lace, that adorned the décolletage of court and fashionable dresses during the Napoleonic era. Inspired by the grandeur long past ages, the cherusque seems to have heavily borrowed from the Elizabethan period, being influenced by the lace ruffs and collars of the later half of the 16th century, and it was sported by much of European nobility and high bourgeoise throughout the decades of 1800s to 1810s. Left: Sketch for a portrait of Maria Feodorovna , by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder (late 18th century). Right: Charlotte Mathilde of England, Queen of Württemberg , by Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch (c. 1799). The first pictorial references of the cherusque appear at the very turn of the 19th century. Left: Louise of Prussia, Princess Radziwiłł , by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (c. 1801). Right: Elizabeth Alexeievna , by Jean-Laurent Mosnier (1807). While seen at the turn of the century, the fashion of the cherusque was consolidated during the first decade of the 19th century. Left: The coronation of Napoleon , by Jacques-Louis David (c.1805-1807). Right: Portrait of empress Joséphine , by Henri-François Riesener (1806). In France, Joséphine Beauharnais, wife of Napoleon, was the leading fashion influence; one of the most painted women of the Napoleonic era, she can be found sporting different kinds of cherusque collars in her portraits. Left: Elisa Bonaparte , by Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1806). Right: Marie-Julie Clary, Queen of Naples , by Robert Lefèvre (1807). Following the coronation of Napoleon and Joséphine as emperor and empress of France, the cherusque became a staple of the French court dress, and its fashion extended throughout Europe. Left: Queen Hortense , by Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1813). Right: Maria Antonia Koháry , after Josef Kriehuber (c. 1815). This type of collar could take various forms;, sometimes, like in Isabey’s miniature, it would consisted of different frilly layers of lace, close to the neck, whilst on their cases, it could be wide and leave the neck and even part of the shoulders bare. Left: Portrait of Dorothee van Herzeele , by Caroline Bardua (1817). Right: Miniature of Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg , by Johann Heusinger (1816). Due to the newfound popular interest in the Middle Ages and the 16th century brought by the Romanticism, the cherusque was often featured in masque costumes and dresses of historical inspiration. Left: The Duchess of Clarence, later queen Adelaide , by Mary Green (c. 1818). Right: Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen , by William Beechey (1831). In England, one of the greatest exponents of the cherusque fad was the Duchess of Clarence, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, eventually Queen of England. Left: Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna , by Pyotr Sokolov (1839). Right: Maria Luisa of Austria, Duchess of Parma by Giovanni Battista Borghesi (1837). While the cherusque largely fell out of use by the decade of 1820, though it could still be found in certain instances in the decade of 1830.

The gemstone in my every day jewelry set I bought of my antique seller/jeweller friend! It’s 200 years old! Black but red to the light. Surrounded by tiny pearls.

Costume Parisien Fashion Plate, 1819 From Paris Musees, les Musees de la Ville de Paris

I hate corset defenders so much. “Corsets weren’t oppressive, they were bras !!” You are not going to believe what I think about bras.

Costume Parisien Fashion Plate, 1819 From Paris Musees, les Musees de la Ville de Paris

Costume Parisien Fashion Plate, 1819 From Paris Musees, les Musees de la Ville de Paris

everything decision in my life has lead me to this paragraph

History rhymes so perfectly sometimes Both eras had deliberately loose, ill-fitting, androgynous fashions that were born from revolution and rebellion, meant to go against the norm. Though the fashion from these eras may seem classy and modest to today’s eyes, they were considered so scandalous and hideous by their immediate successors (i.e. the Victorians disliked Regency fashion, just as people in the 1940s and 50s disdained Roaring Twenties fashion for being so unstructured and unflattering). Likewise, the 1950s was very much the Victorian era of the 20th century, with its return to traditional gender roles, and emphasis on structure, order, propriety, etiquette, and femininity, and the “cult of domesticity.” While the Victorians were largely acting this way in response to the rapid change from the Industrial Revolution as well as the decades of revolution and upheaval prior, people in the Postwar years were yearning for a sense of stability and tradition after, again, decades of blood and hell. Progress ain’t linear, folks. And sometimes history just rhymes SO perfectly 🤌

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Which blouse would you rather wear? (Magazine, Women’s Review 1936 Warsaw) 1. left 🏵⚘️ 2. upper centre 🪽✔️ 3.lower centre 🌹🌹▫️ 4. upper right 💮🦓 5. lower right 🐬 See Results