#1910s party

[mote-historie]

Georges Lepape, Denise Poiret, wife of the French fashion designer Paul Poiret, at The Thousand and Second Night Party, detail, 1911.

Paul Poiret styled his own persona after that of a sultan from “The Thousand and One Nights,” the theme of a bacchanal (“The Thousand and Second Night”) that, in 1911, the Poirets threw in the garden of their eighteenth-century mansion, on the Right Bank. Three hundred guests consumed nine hundred litres of champagne, while parrots and monkeys screeched in the shrubbery, and semi-nude black houris and jinns circulated with platters of exotic delicacies. Scheherazade’s tales had recently been translated into French by the Arabist Joseph-Charles Mardrus (whose bride, the bohemian writer Lucie Delarue, wore a cycling outfit to their wedding that may have inspired Poiret’s harem pants), and she was, in many respects, his paradoxical ideal woman: the slave girl as free spirit. (x)

[laku-incarnate]

The Cure (1917, dir. Charlie Chaplin)

[scavengedluxury]

Girls' night, 1916. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[strawberryteabunny]

an old copy of Alice in Wonderland I found at the antique store; illustrations are from 1916 by Milo Winter 🐇🃏

[kiivg]

.“I bet your dance card was full tonight, ey, Reid, or did the young Charlotte keep prospective sweethearts at bay?”.

[littlehorrorshop]

Intolerance (1916)

[friendlessghoul]

William Collier, Jr., gave a stag party recently. See if you can find him and also Buster Keaton, Norman Kerry, William Haines, Jack Pickford, Skeet Gallagher and Ben Lyon (who fell asleep). - The Modern Screen, November 1930

[garadinervi]

Claudia Jones, February 21, 1915 / 2024

(image: Claudia Jones, secretary of the Women’s Commission of the Communist Party USA in New York City, January 22, 1948. Anthony Camerano/Associated Press)

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[weirdyearbook]

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Here's a collection of vintage after the party imagery.

[vintagelivingbydaisyb]

Daily Vintage: Halloween Decorations Ladies Home Journal, October, 1919

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 23, 8 juin 1913, Paris. Robe de garden-party. Modèle de la maison Balmain soeurs, rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, 3. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

[rayeshistoryhouse]

^Women’s suffrage billboard against Woodrow Wilson

Denver, Colorado, 1916 

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[scavengedluxury]

New Year, 1916. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[angelsandpinkpeaches]

Louise Ruiz and Louise Vasquez

[suetravelblog]

Croatian Wars Tour Zagreb

Croatian Wars Tour Zagreb

Young Croatian Soldier A glutton for punishment, Saturday I took a Croatian War Walking Tour, beginning at Ban Jelacic Square. During the tour, our guide enlightened us about the “history of Zagreb and Croatia during times of conflict”. I was hoping this tour would help cure my hopeless bewilderment with Balkan conflicts, including the Yugoslavia communist era and Croatian Homeland War –…