#20th century costumes

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One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks

The Bride Wore Red / Joan Crawford as Anni Pavlovitch

A lovely example of a mid-30s silhouette, very sleek and sophisticated. The beads give it a heft and sparkle that shows up nicely in black and white. But I must admit that when I saw the photo of the actual dress, it made me kind of wish the film had been in color!

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Paul Poiret costumes, photographed by Henri Manuel, circa 1920

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John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) "Jason and Medea" (1907) Oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite Currently in a private collection

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Butterfly costume, House of Worth, 1912

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1902

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Ukrainian beauty in folk clothes. Chernivtsi, 1912

Source: https://pinterest.com/pin/1064749536900446936/

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Ukraine - 1916

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The Crown + Costumes

Princess Elizabeth's white wedding dress in Season 01, Episode 01.

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Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustrée des arts décoratifs appliqués à la femme, no. 25, vol. 3, 1 janvier 1903, Paris. Jean Béraud. — Arlequine. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Evening Dress by Thierry Mugler; Pictured with Mina’s Red Dress by Eiko Ishioka from Bram Stoker’s Dracula at the Gothic: Dark Glamour Exhibit

Fall 1981

Museum at FIT

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mardi gras costume polls info

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One Dress a Day Challenge

November: Oscar Winners

A Room with a View / Helena Bonham-Carter as Lucy Honeychurch

Year: 1986

Designer: Jenny Beavan and John Bright

Lucy wears this outfit for a brief scene of tea in the garden. Some of the costumes for this film were vintage pieces, and I wonder if this might be one of them, with the intricate embroidery on the top (does it qualify as a shirtwaist?). I also wonder if it might have been chosen as a nod to the original novel, where the famous kiss in the flower field happens in spring rather than summer, and the flowers are violets rather than poppies.

There's a very good writeup of the costumes in this film here.

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Katharine Hepburn dressed up as a shiny silver bug from outer space, from the 1933 film, Christopher Strong. Designed by Howard Greer

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John William Godward (1861-1922) "An Offering to Venus" (1912) Oil on canvas Academicism

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Russia (1917)

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