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[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Baby doll dress.

Designer: Weinberg, Chester

Date: 1966-1968

Medium: Silk

[nitratediva]

Bess Flowers, “queen of the dress extras,” in a risqué scene from A Woman of Paris (1923).

[heart-e]

Heart-E sketch advert, kera 75 (dec 2004)

[vintage-every-day]

The Cotton Club, Harlem, New York City, ca. 1930.

[70sscifiart]

The collected escapades of Space Cat

[ephemeral-elegance]

Delphos Gown with Hand Painted Sash and Venetian Glass Beads, ca. 1910

Mariano Fortuny

via Skinner Auctions

[the1920sinpictures]

December, 1922 Mother and child by J,C, Leyendecker.

[fleurdulys]

Cupid’s Hunting Fields - Edward Burne-Jones

1882

[allaboutrings]

Victorian 18k Gold and Silver Moonstone, Sapphire, and Diamond “Man in the Moon” Ring

[the1920sinpictures]

A wonderful 1928 c. poster from the League of Women Voters, reminding women of their hard-fought right to vote.

[danismm]

Bedroom by Jacques Emile Ruhlman, Paris 1924

[nemfrog]

“The Great Bear.” Flowers of the sky. 1879.

Internet Archive

[electripipedream]

Star magazine, 1973

[the1920sinpictures]

1922 Gallenga coat and dress. The topaz velvet coat has a repeating spade shape repeating pattern stenciled in gold, a smocked yoke and stand collar with a self-ruffle. There are two knotted velvet buttons, wide sleeves with a deep cuff open along the inseam joined by three millefiori buttons. The coat has a satin lining stenciled in a matching pattern along the front opening. The topaz sleeveless satin dress is stenciled in an overall Medieval foliate pattern with birds. It has a V-neck front and back, and streamers from the shoulders. There is a self-belt. From Kerry Taylor Auctions.

[route22ny]

Window view from the Hotel Chelsea; photo taken “a few years ago” by Chris Stein.  An avid photographer, Mr Stein is better known as guitarist for the rock group Blondie.

[goshyesvintageads]

The Scranton Lace Co, 1921

[lostfunzones]

Hand-colored Engraving (c. 1867)