Belgian Lace Fichu The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Blouse and Skirt 1900s Musée Galliera de la Mode de la Ville de Paris
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A Spanish artist living in Venice, Mariano Fortuny began designing printed fabrics in 1906. In work strongly influenced by antiquity, he emphasised the fluidity of garments with no waistline, creating sober, timeless, vertical pieces perfectly adapted to revealing the forms of the body. Registered in Fortuny's name in 1909, his emblematic ‘Delphos’ dress—named after the Charioteer of Delphi—took its inspiration from the chiton, the long woollen Greek tunic, and reflects the craze for Greece whose interpreter at the time was Isadora Duncan. This one-size-fits-all dress, made of finely pleated silk and open to all sorts of subtle variants of neckline and sleeves, was an ongoing success for forty years. Its admirers among the modernist elite included Comtesse Greffulhe and her daughter Elaine, the Marchesa Luisa Casati, Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse and, of course, Isadora Duncan.
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Thought I would share this with you. We visit Rye regularly to shop in the many second-hand shops, antique shops and bric-a brac stores. The wife buys a few things occasionally and I take a few pictures but primarily we go there for the 'Cream Tea' we enjoy in any of the dozen or more pubs and cafes that cater for the many visitors. Sat there in the chair she reminded me of poor Miss Havisham from Dickens' 'Great Expectations' who having been jilted at the altar spent the rest of her life in her wedding dress only to go up in smoke when the house caught fire many years later.
