#la mode illustree

[erinsvintageemporium]

On This Day: 16th of December, 1861

Fashion plate from La Mode Illustrée, signed by Adam and Verdier.

Toilettes et Etoffes de la Mon. Gay Fils, 2 rue de la Vrillière. Ceintures régentes de Mmes de Vertus Sœurs, 26 Chaussée d'Antin. Jupons et Ganterie de la Venitienne, 62 Chaussée d'Antin.

DESCRIPTION DE TOILETTES.

Robe en pou-de-soie couleur havane: La jupe est garnie avec un volant tuyauté et à tête, ayant 10 centimètres de hauteur. Grand manteau en drap lilas, bordé d'astracan noir moiré. La garniture d'astracan est posée de façon à figurer une sorte de grande pèlerine, qui forme en même temps une large manche. Chapeau de velours noir, à passe blanche, couverte d'une fanchon de dentelle noire, dont la pointe déborde un peu par devant; intérieur formé de roses de dentelle noire et de ruches blanches. Brides blanches à filets noirs.

Robe en moire gros bleu: Grande casaque non ajustée en velours noir; le bas de cette casaque est orné de très-hauts médaillons en dentelle noire, couvrant un espace de 60 centimètres environ. Les manches, très-longues, sont pareillement garnies de médaillons en dentelle; le corsage est recouvert avec un grand fichu de dentelle noire, composé de médaillons grands et petits.

1861-12 LMI51

[silkenbutterfly7]

I love the warm chocolate brown tones and the softness of the velvet accents and the deep forest green is so elegant

1884

[periciles]

Did some sketches of miss secondopinionson in 1891-1892 fashion because of an au

[marzipanandminutiae]

Women are just

Hnng

I am. Gaë.

(All women are amazing and especially all queer women but in terms of my personal attraction permit me to posit: feminine-presenting women. Especially alternative femmes. Especially vintage/historical-dressing femmes. My strongest aesthetic Type is a lady I can go out with and we look like the most homoerotically charged fashion plate from La Mode Illustree at some point in the late 19th century)

(bonus points if we have that whole Gothic heroine/Gothic villainess thing going on visually. Gothic heroine types are. Incredibly attractive)

[the1920sinpictures]

March, 1924 Cover of "La Mode Illustree".

[marzipanandminutiae]

the combination of time periods in the outfits here is FASCINATING

you have the older white woman in early-mid 1860s daywear

the young white woman in 1869-early 70s formal/eveningwear

the young Black woman in what appears to be....late 1880s-early 1890s? day attire-ish? with sleeves too short for conventional daywear, but hey, artistic license

the older Black woman in something that almost looks like modern Caribbean fashion, though I'm woefully ignorant of the specific reference being made, I freely admit

the younger white man in what looks like a 1970s suit and hairstyle?

and Mr. Gatwa in an outfit that almost has some Regency influences about the neckwear, to my eyes, and that I can't place visually besides that. and a VERY modern drag outfit at some point, clearly

would love to know the thought process for the designer, because it's hard to imagine this wasn't intentional. the period outfits look extremely on-point for each period, not just Generic Pan-Victorian, so it seems very deliberate. it'll be cool to see what's going on with it when the proshoot comes out!

The National Theatre's posted some photos of The Importance of Being Earnest starring Ncuti Gatwa and BOY they are not messing around!

It'll be available to watch in cinemas National Theatre Live from 20 February.

Photos by Marc Brenner.

[peaceandnature]

La Mode Illustree, 1894

[mahgnib]

La Mode Illustree, 1867

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

La Mode Illustree magazine, 1897.

[vintagefashionplates]

Fashion Plate - La Mode Illustree - 1868

[pastpatterns]

Toilette d'automne avec jaquette 1897

Toilette d'automne avec jaquette 1897 A faire soi-même avec le patron Corset sur la planche de patrons https://www.french-crea-vintage.com/fr/1897/2663-patrons-de-la-mode-illustree-1897-n36.html

[erinsvintageemporium]

On this Day: 14th December, 1873

On this day: 14th of December, 1873

Fashion plate from La Mode Illustrée signed by Anaïs Toudouze and Réville, featuring toilettes by Madame Breant-Castel of 19, Rue du 4 September.

DESCRIPTION DE TOILETTES.

Robe en faye nuance paille. Jupon plissé par devant (à plis perpendiculaires). Les lés de derrière sont garnis de trois volants disposés en courbes. Tunique pareille, garnie d'une haute blonde blanche. Corsage décolleté, ceinture-écharpe en faye paille. Sortie de bal en cachemire blanc, ornée de broderie en soutache blanche. Frange de soie blanche. Capuchon pointu, avec revers de satin blanc. Grand nœud en ruban de satin blanc.

Costume en drap et velours nuance prune. Le jupon est garni d'un volant composé de séries de quatre plis, alternativement en drap et velours. Sur chaque côté une quille en velours. Tunique en velours, relevée par une écharpe en velours frangé. Spencer en drap avec encolure garnie d'une grosse ruche en drap doublée de velours. Manches en velours. Boutons en vieil argent au spencer et sur les manches.

1873-12 LMI50

[fashion-from-the-past]

La Mode Illustree 1894

[sartorialadventure]

hello! i recently thrifted a fashion plate from la mode illustrée, with no information or date with it. i can’t find this specific print anywhere online, either. do you have any tips for figuring it out/ideas of where to look? based off of what i’ve read on the fashion, i’m thinking it’s late 1850s-early ‘60s, but i’m not sure. (i’m also pretty sure it isn’t a later reprint.) thank you!! i love what you do here 💖

So unfortunately, I am not a fashion historian and therefore I don't know. I don't have any access to fashion libraries or subscriptions to digital collections. There are a number of places online that have scanned copies of plates or issues of La Mode Illustree (example: Internet Archive, 4 of 6 issues of LMI for 1866). Obviously, it'll be a pain in the butt paging through all of the ones they have for a ten-year-or-more period (and they might not even have the one you want), but it's the best I can do.

Does anybody else have any research ideas they can share?

[callmedaisy]

La mode illustree 1865

[marzipanandminutiae]

complaining about homophobic jokes while calling actual historical gay people "q*eer". you know, the SLUR that was used to traumatize and abuse them for decades. the homophobic hypocrisy is astounding

do I really have to do this song and dance again? every term ever used for us has been a slur at some point, I got called a lesbian in middle school by kids who threw liter bottles of Coke at me and sexually harassed me, etc.

have a lovely plate from La Mode Illustree, 1876: