Couture Beginnings The first ever fashion designer, who wasn’t just a dressmaker, was Charles Frederick Worth(1986-1985). Before the former draper set up his maison de couture (fashion…
To many Chinese, the presence of western evangelicals was a major grievance, but if there was one thing these foreign devils were any good at, it was photography.
Feel like that women from Edwardian era favored weight-fashion styles, from big gowns to giant hats. Although diverse in shapes, it's really hard to wear these hats now. Beautiful? Take a look...
Amongst the Ascot fashions is a costume with hobble skirt with a side split & a jacket which creates the effect of a tunic. The hats are covered in gauze or feathers. Our beautiful pictures are available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Photo Gifts #MediaStorehouse
Stockholm, Paris, Moscow, Tokyo, Istanbul, London. You’ll find street style blogs for almost every major city. Amateur and professional photographers hang around outside fashion shows or just prowl…
There was quite a bit of interest in my first post about Edward Linley Sambourne’s street photography so now that Victorian month is over we can go back to the early years of the 20th century and f…
Edwardian gowns, 1900s.
Things to do in France in 1910. I haven't found a citable source for this, but I'm still willing to guarantee that on January 1, 1910, someone somewhere said, "Finally! I had no idea what to call that decade. The...
English paintings, English art
Long before photographers like Bill Cunningham and The Sartorialist were documenting street style, photographer Edward Linley Sambourne captured the Edwardian fashion of the city's affluent Kensington neighborhood.
Day dresses, 1916, McCall's Magazine
"The detailing on this elegant black dress perfectly sets off the lavish jewellery worn around the neck." Scanned and quoted from the book "Decades of Fashion" by Harriet Worsley.
Some hand colored pictures. Enjoy!
1904
Postcards of the infamous exotic dancer who was convicted and executed by the French during World War One for being a German spy have remerged 100 years after her death. Images show Mata Hari, the Dutch-born woman executed by a French firing squad on October 15 1917, posing in a variety of vibrant colours for a series of postcards sold in Paris the early 1900s. Hari can also be seen pulling different poses from her dancing routines in the set of shots, which were commissioned over 10 years before her death, in 1906.
Photographs of lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-identified women, 1850-1999. Seriously this is really cool.
Annie Foot of Nalcoombie posing for a studio portrait, 1900-1910 by State Library of Queensland, Australia on Flickr.
Explore Turn of the century's 181 photos on Flickr!
Fashion and life from 1900-1914.
