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Pierre Legrain, Costumes parisiens. Robe de velours maïs. Petite veste de velours noir bordée de vair (Corn velvet dress. Little black velvet jacket lined with vair). Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1913
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#Pierre Legrain#illustration#1913#fashion#fashion illustration#art nouveau#vintage#parisian fashion#1910s fashion illustration#1910s fashion#edwardian era#la belle epoque#belle epoque#historical fashion#art#chic#parisian chic#paris#parisian lifestyle#parisian life#fashion history#rare illustration#rare
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Fooduary Day 3: Strawberry Shortcake
Apparently strawberry shortcakes got their whipped cream variation in France, 1910. As the quintessential unemployed artist I’ve worked in a few kitchens and I’ve made dozens of Strawberry shortcakes. Though technically they were strawberry shortcakes in name only because they were technically strawberry angel food cakes. Either way they are delicious, and deeply nostalgic. Eating strawberry shortcakes in the peak of their summer season? Local? You wouldn’t believe how sweet they get.
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Mrs Newell Tilton, 1913
#newell tilton#1910s#parasols#spring#ombre#belle epoque#vintage#vintage fashion illustration#fashion illustration#vogue#2d art#vintage print
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Murad, The Turkish Cigarette (1919)
#vintage#advertising#retro#illustration#vintage ads#cool#weekend#friday#vintage illustration#retro aesthetic#kitsch#retro style#1910s style#1910s art#1910s fashion#1910s#early 20th century#cigarette#murad#turkish#cigarette ads#tobacco products#smoking
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My collection of vintage dandies is looking sharp.
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Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustrée des arts décoratifs appliqués à la femme, no. 163, juillet 1914, Paris. "Lettre sur la mode: La silhouette actuelle et l'attitude-tango." Francis de Miomandre. Bibliothèque nationale de France
English translation by Google Translate (and edited for relative clarity).
Ma chère amie,
Vous me demandez mon avis sur la mode actuelle, comme ça, simplement?… Voilà bien une idée de femme!… Comme si Fou pouvait professer une opinion sur un pareil sujet, si ondoyant! Tout ce que peut faire un homme de goût, c'est d'admirer ses contemporaines qui passent, et de respecter cet effort martyrisant qu'elles t'imposent pour diversifier à l'infini leur séduisante figure. Je sais que cet effort n'est pas toujours heureux. Mais n'allez pas en incriminer la mode, qui n'y est pour rien. Il y a deux sortes de femmes, celles qui ont du goût… et les autres. Ces dernières ont le génie d'élire parmi les accoutrements du jour celui précisément qui les rendra ridicules.
Il arrive un moment où nous ne remarquons plus combien sont gracieuses les femmes de goût qui portent encore les choses à la mode le mois dernier, mais nous n'avons plus d'yeux que pour leurs malheureuses imitatrices. C'est à ce moment-là qu'une mode est démodée. Il faut la changer.
La question de changer ne se pose pas pour la mode actuelle, puisque sa caractéristique est d'etre au contraire en perpétuelle évolution. Une évolution! que dis-je? un vertige… On n'a pas le temps s'y reconnaitre… Il semble que toutes les les pays soient conviés à nous fournir des motifs d'inspiration sans cesse renouvelés. Et c'est la Perse et bientôt l'Inde, et c'est la Grèce, la Grèce de M. Pierre Loüys, la Grèce à demi orientale d'Alexandrie, et c'est la Turquie et demain ce sera la Chine. Et puis après, on remontera dans le moyen âge. On pillera les musées. La mode actuelle? Ah! bien quinaud celui qui essaierait de s'en moquer! Car il n'aurait pas plutôt achevé sa petite diatribe, si vaine ! que déjà on pourrait lui répondre: « Mais, Monsieur, vous datez, vous vous raillez d'une très vieille chose. Ce que vous trouvez ridicule, il y a au moins quinze jours que nous en avons assez nous-mêmes… » Consultez les caricatures des journaux amusants, et vous serez édifiée. La mode actuelle, qui a le désavantage de coûter très cher à celles qui veulent la suivre, et de les ahurir un peu, a au moins la supériorité d'échapper au ridicule. Elle court si vite!…
Et cependant, me direz-vous, elle existe. On s'habille, que diable ! A vous d'extraire de tout cela la ligne générale, je ne sais pas moi, la synthèse…
Je veux bien. Voyons. Cherchons ensemble. Est-ce la tunique ? Mais non, puisque la bonne moitié des toilettes ne comporte pas de tunique. Est-ce la cape? La cape donne une jolie silhouette, mais que de femmes restent fidèles à des manteaux d'une tout autre forme, et cependant demeurent très dans le train! La note serait-elle donnée par le chapeau? Je veux bien, mais alors lequel? Le petit, le grand, le plat, le large, l'immense, le rond, le roulé en cornet, le lourd ou l'aérien?… Ne cherchez pas plus avant et reconnaissez avec moi que ce qui caractérise la mode actuelle n'est pas tant une ligne plus ou moins souple et gracieuse du vêtement qu'une attitude de la femme qui porte ce vêtement, cette attitude molle, hanchée, abandonnée, douce, passive, un peu veule et que, pour tout dire, j'appellerai l'attitude-tango.
On a souvent dit: « Le ventre s'est beaucoup porté cette année. » Quelle impropriété fâcheuse d'expression! Vous le savez bien, vous qui vous habillez à ravir et vous tenez de même, qu'il n'a jamais été question de ventre, mais qu'il a été énormément question de tango. Or, dans l'exercice de cette danse charmante, et qui, malgré de retentissantes interdictions ecclésiastiques, n'est pas près de disparaître, on se trouve fort souvent le bras en l'air et le talon relevé, portant tout le poids du corps sur un seul côté, ce qui donne aussitôt aux dames un petit air langoureux et vide, une attitude molle et déjetée.
A force de s'adonner à cette danse, nos élégantes ont pris l'habitude de se tenir ainsi dans toutes les autres circonstances de la vie. Et c'est en tanguant qu'elles entrent dans un salon, qu'elles y prennent le thé, qu'elles écoutent les hommes d'esprit, qu'elles regagnent leur automobile, qu'elles essaient leurs robes, qu'elles attendent la balle au tennis, enfin qu'elles vivent.
Rappelez-vous comment elles étaient il y a seulement trois ans. Droites, fières, faisant valoir le moindre pouce de leur taille, et minces, si minces ! C'étaient des Florentines, des reines, d'inaccessibles idoles. Le tango a changé tout cela. Le tango les a humanisées, assouplies, le tango les a brisées.
Il y a même là un profond mystère. Car, enfin, le corset, lui, n'a rien abdiqué de son inflexible nature. Il a beau porter des noms de nixes et d'ondines, de fées, de magiciennes ou de déesses, tout ce qu'on peut dire c'est qu'il commence un peu moins haut pour finir beaucoup plus bas. Et certains ressemblent davantage à des culottes baleinées qu'à des corsets proprement dits. Mais le fait est que cet instrument n'a de suave que le nom et qu'il se compose toujours d'un buse rigide comme un principe, d'agrafes solides comme des crampons et de fanons qui rompent parfois, mais ne plient sous aucun prétexte. Comment une femme aussi farouchement maintenue peut-elle trouver le moyen de se pencher avec une langueur si délicieuse? Comment arrive-t-elle à donner l'impression de n'être, en dessous, couverte que de linons impondérables et de souples batistes? Énigme, vous dis-je. Enigme de courage et d'héroïsme. La femme d'aujourd'hui est cent fois plus étonnante que le jeune Spartiate qui souriait tandis qu'il était dévoré par son renard. Cet adolescent, en effet, personne ne lui demandait dé remuer. Mais la femme à la mode, non seulement elle sourit, mais encore elle va et vient, elle penche le buste à droite et à gauche, elle marche, elle danse, cependant qu'un appareil ingénieux et terrible lui froisse les côtes, lui comprime le ventre, lui lacère les jambes, lui meurtrit les genoux. Que lui importe ? Un sourire d'extase illuminant sa figure enivrée, elle s'avance, désarticulée et engageante, suivant toutes les règles de l'attitude, qui lui donne son grand cachet de chic, de l'attitude-tango.
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My dear friend,
You ask me my opinion on current fashion, just like that?… That's a woman's idea!… As if Fou could profess an opinion on such a subject, so undulating! All a man of taste can do is admire his passing contemporaries, and respect this tormenting effort that they impose on you to infinitely diversify their seductive figure. I know that this effort is not always successful. But don't blame fashion, which has nothing to do with it. There are two kinds of women, those who have taste… and those who don't. The latter have the genius to choose from among the outfits of the day precisely the one that will make them look ridiculous.
There comes a time when we no longer notice how graceful the women of taste are who still wear fashionable things last month, but we only have eyes for their unfortunate imitators. That’s when a fashion goes out of fashion. It needs to be changed.
The question of changing does not arise for current fashion, since its characteristic is, on the contrary, to be in perpetual evolution. An evolution! what did I say? a dizziness… We don't have time to relate… It seems that all countries are invited to provide us with constantly renewed sources of inspiration. And it is Persia and soon India, and it is Greece, the Greece of Mr. Pierre Loüys, the semi-eastern Greece of Alexandria, and it is Turkey and tomorrow it will be China. And then afterwards, we will go back to the Middle Ages. We will loot the museums. Current fashion? Ah! very stupid anyone who tries to make fun of it! Because he would not have sooner finished his little diatribe, so vain! that one could already reply to him: “But, Sir, you are dating, you are making fun of a very old thing. What you find ridiculous, we have had enough of it ourselves for at least a fortnight…" Look at the caricatures in the amusing newspapers, and you will be edified. Current fashion, which has the disadvantage of being very expensive for those who want to follow it, and of bewildering them a little, at least has the superiority of escaping ridicule. She runs so fast!…
And yet, you will tell me, it exists. Let's get dressed, damn it! It's up to you to extract the general line from all this, I don't know, the synthesis…
I don't mind. Let's see. Let's search together. Is it the tunic? But no, since a good half of the toilets do not have a tunic. Is it the cape? The cape gives a pretty silhouette, but how many women remain faithful to coats of a completely different shape, and yet remain very in tune! Would the score be given by the hat? I'm willing, but which one? The small, the large, the flat, the wide, the immense, the round, the rolled into a cone, the heavy or the airy?… Look no further and agree with me that what characterizes current fashion is not so much a more or less supple and graceful line of the garment as an attitude of the woman who wears this garment, this soft, hip, abandoned, gentle, passive, a little spineless attitude and which, to tell the truth, I'll call it attitude-tango.
It has often been said: “The stomach has worn a lot this year." What an unfortunate impropriety of expression! You know well, you who dress beautifully and carry yourself the same, that it was never a question of stomach, but that it was very much a question of tango. Now, in the exercise of this charming dance, which, despite resounding ecclesiastical prohibitions, is not about to disappear, one very often finds oneself with one's arm in the air and one's heel raised, carrying the entire weight of one's body, on one side only, which immediately gives the ladies a little languorous and empty air, a limp and lopsided attitude.
By devoting themselves to this dance, our elegant ladies have gotten into the habit of holding themselves like this in all other circumstances of life. And it is while swaying that they enter a salon, that they take tea there, that they listen to men of wit, that they return to their car, that they try on their dresses, that they wait the tennis ball, finally let them live.
Remember how they were just three years ago. Straight, proud, showing off every inch of their waist, and thin, so thin! They were Florentines, queens, inaccessible idols. Tango changed all that. Tango humanized them, softened them, tango broke them.
There is even a deep mystery there. Because, finally, the corset has not abdicated any of its inflexible nature. It may bear the names of nixes and undines, fairies, magicians or goddesses, all we can say is that it starts a little lower and ends much lower. And some look more like boned panties than actual corsets. But the fact is that this instrument is sweet only in name and that it always consists of a nozzle as rigid as a principle, of solid staples like crampons and of baleen which sometimes break, but do not bend under any circumstances. Pretext. How can such a fiercely held woman find a way to bend over with such delicious languor? How does it manage to give the impression of being, underneath, covered only with imponderable lawns and soft cambric? Enigma, I tell you. Riddle of courage and heroism. The woman of today is a hundred times more astonishing than the young Spartan who smiled as he was devoured by his fox. This teenager, in fact, no one asked him to move. But the fashionable woman not only smiles, but also comes and goes, she leans her bust to the right and to the left, she walks, she dances, while an ingenious and terrible device crumples her ribs, compresses her stomach, lacerates his legs, bruises his knees. What does it matter to him? A smile of ecstasy illuminating her intoxicated face, she advances, disjointed and engaging, following all the rules of attitude, which gives her her great stamp of chic, of the tango attitude.
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Vanity Fair cover.
Artist: Frank X. Leyendecker
November 1st, 1914
#Frank Leyendecker#art#painting#fashion#art history#Vanity Fair#1910s#magazine#cover#illustration#fashion history
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A question all children ask of adults: "Who's your tailor?"
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Archival advertisements reveal the trends of their time: here's my collection of vintage ads.
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Selection of F. X. and J. C. Leyendecker’s advertising illustrations for Kuppenheimer — Part 5.
Parts: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
#j. c. leyendecker#f. x. leyendecker#ad#vintage ads#vintage advertising#illustration#art#vintage#male art#men in art#mensfashion#menstyle#menswear#historical fashion#1910s#1920s#series: leyendecker's kuppenheimer ads
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Le Cachet de Paris, 1911 💗
#Le Cachet de Paris#1911#1910s#1910s dress#1910s fashion#Edwardian#Edwardian dress#Edwardian style#Edwardian fashion#Edwardian girl#Edwardian woman#Edwardian era#Edwardian art#Fashion#Fashion plate#Fashion sketch#Fashion illustration#Fashion history#Historical fashion#Historical clothing#Dress history#Vintage dress#Vintage fashion#Antique dress#Antique fashion#Antique clothing#Corset#Costuming#Costumes#Costume design
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Cover of The Delineator, March 1915
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Aubert de Dinan, Art Nouveau Fashion Illustration, Dinner Dresses by Gustave Beer, Les Modes, 1913.
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Fooduary Day 5: Turtle Candy
Turtle candy was invented in 1918. I was inspired by the exterior branding of the candy box for the dress so I could use some recognizable colors, and I was super sneaky by hiding some turtle candies in her design with the buttons. ;D
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Ethel Plummer, 1915
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'Spring manoeuvres, a review in Cythera' - from La Vie Parisienne, 6th May 1911
#napoleon#napoleon bonaparte#la vie parisienne#1910s#1910s fashion#historical fashion#fashion history#vintage illustration#illustration
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Here's my seasonal collection of vintage (mostly weird) fashion.
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