#1900s

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The Topeka Daily Capital, Kansas, December 10, 1905

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Dressing the Jellicles-

Historical Clothing for Bombalurina and Demeter

Boots

Maniatis Bottier

1900-1920

Maniatis, who was born in Greece, provided customized footwear for the likes of Cary Grant and Jean Gabin from his Paris shop in the ninth arrondissement. His location, near the Pigalle red-light district, perhaps helps to explain the design of these boots. They do not appear to be made for the stage, as their soles-original-are only lightly worn. They are also not of any fashionable style of the 1920s. In fact, they are most similar to late-nineteenth-century designs. While the exaggeratedly high and narrowed heel suggests a detail originating in the fetish community, the uppers appear to be cobbled from the conventional design of a Belle Époque boot but with the addition of another panel to extend it over the thigh.

Although The Costume Institute collection comprises fashionable examples of dress and accessories from the last three centuries, an exception was made for these fetish boots, with their extremely high and tapered heels. The boots anticipate by at least a decade the stiletto heels of postwar fashion and illustrate the incorporation of designs originating from a world of highly specialized and esoteric tastes into the larger, ostensibly more normative, culture. The tendency of fashion to co-opt taboo and exotic elements from other periods, cultures, or, as in this instance, the demimonde, is one strategy employed for its constant reinvigoration.

The MET

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Georges Lemmen - Femme endormie (1901)

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Nguyễn Phan Chánh (Vietnamese, 1892-1984)

Dyers at Work

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Dressing the Jellicles-

Historical Clothing for Victoria

Evening dress (detail) ca. 1900-03

From the Muncher Stadtmuseum

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~ The Whittier Register, December 4, 1910

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Sven Rasmussen Svendsen (1864-1945), Winter’s Night with Cabins, 1910, oil on canvas

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(source: The Birmingham (AL) News, December 14, 1901.)

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Anne W. Brigman (1869–1950) - Thaw, 1906

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Lost in thought, 1903 Paul Kutscha

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Dress

c. 1902

English

Kent State University Museum

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Its December 1955, and whilst small children watch and wait excitedly for Santa, adult Londoners scurry about their business with a few others enjoying a little fun playing snow balls in Traffalgar Square.

With the world always seemingly in turmoil, let's hope we all can experience a little Christmas cheer and happiness and hope 2025 can be a better year. Merry Christmas Everyone!

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Helsingborg, Sweden 1900

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Henri-Camille Danger - Fléau! (1901)

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The maritime pilots Christmas tree, 1908

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Photography information from : postalmuseum.org

Reproduction made 1953 of a photograph taken in 1900. [This photograph was identified in the Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Globe on January 22, 1955 (page 7) as being of William (Billy) Pickering (1868-1908).

The picture was taken by Alfred Fieldsend from Lincoln and took place in Sea Lane, Friskney, Lincolnshire.]

Penny-farthing Information from Wikipedia. :

The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, is an early type of bicycle] It was popular in the 1870s and 1880s, with its large front wheel providing high speeds, owing to it travelling a large distance for every rotation of the wheel. These bicycles had solid rubber tires and as a consequence the only shock absorption was in the saddle.

The penny-farthing became obsolete in the late 1880s with the development of modern bicycles, which provided similar speed, via a chain-driven gear train, and comfort, from the use of pneumatic tires. These later bikes were marketed as "safety bicycles" because of the greater ease of mounting and dismounting, the reduced danger of falling, and the reduced height to fall, in comparison to penny-farthings.

The name came from the British penny and farthing coins, the penny being much larger than the farthing, so that the side view of the bicycle resembles a larger penny (the front wheel) leading a smaller farthing (the rear wheel).

An English mailman delivers a letter atop a penny farthing bicycle