#turn of the century

[fashionsfromhistory]

Evening Boots

1885-1890

Probably French

While the slipper and the strapped shoe were the most common choice for evening wear in the last third of the 19th century, boots did occasionally continue to appear. As with shoes, the basic evening boot was satin, either plain or featuring an embroidered vamp, usually in floral or foliate designs. Surviving examples of evening boots of the late 19th and early 20th centuries suggest, however, that those daring to wear something already outside of the ordinary often opted as well for unconventionally bold and unusual materials and trimmings. This pair of boots typifies that phenomenon: anachronistic side-lacing, novel and atypically exuberant fret and scroll motifs, and embroidery covering the entire boot, including the heel.

The MET (Accession Number: 2009.300.1477a–d)

[iridessence]

The impressionist's muse

[yeoldenews]

"Jilted."

I've been laughing at this horse's face for a week.

(source: Yours Truly and One Hundred Other Original Drawings by James Montgomery Flagg, 1908.)

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ~ A model in Mucha’s studio on the Rue du Val-de-Grâce, dressed in a traditional Bohemian folk costume, circa 1900 | src Mucha-Museum Prague view more on wordPress

[luxus-aeterna]

The look for a corsetière’s holiday party I went to. instagram

[retropopcult]

New York, 1904. "Knickerbocker Trust Building and Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Fifth Avenue at W. 34th Street."

[lake-lady]

Looking out the window of an old warehouse

[celestialtulip]

Some studies I did this morning of the Jeanne d’Arc sculpture by Antonin Mercié (ca. 1890).

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Alphonse Mucha, advertisement postcard, Moet et Chandon (1899)

via vmfa.museum

[theyroaredvintage]

Circus performer, early 1900s

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Entrance to Kasbah Henri Matisse 1912

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“Our ordinary mind always tried to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but this is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.” ― E.F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed

[fashionsfromhistory]

Wisteria Lamp

Tiffany and Co.

1903-1905

National Gallery of Victoria

[iridessence]

posting this black gown on my pink main because everyone needs to see this photo of me at the ball. sans gloves, quelle scandale !

[daguerreotyping]

Circa 1900s postcard of university girls being girls: smoking, drinking, fighting, gambling and asking the important questions, namely: "Wer zahlt den Früh-schoppen?" ("Who's paying for the morning pint?")

[luxus-aeterna]

a close friend hosted a going away tea party in my honor, and I threw together different pieces in my closet/night gown drawer to make a turn of the century vibe happen. | IG

[retropopcult]

“Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1886-model bicycle for two”, from the National Archives, photograph dated 1911.