#era: interwar

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Women's green party dresses, 1922.

Les Idées Nouvelles | New Ideas

Une casaque de dentelle d'or accompagnant une jupe de velours noir.

Une robe de petit dîner en crêpe marocain vert et or.

Charmeuse blanche avec panneaux alourdis de broché noir et émeraude. Un fichu de mousseline émeraude.

A gold lace casaque blouse accompanying a black velvet skirt.

A small dinner dress in green and gold marocain crepe.

White charmeuse with panels of heavy black and emerald brocade. An emerald muslin fichu scarf.

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Women's dresses, 1922.

Les Idées Nouvelles | New Ideas

Robe-manteau. La tunique-jaquette en tissu chenillé deux tons pose sur un fond de perllaine blanche.

Une robe de velours-chiffon, émeraude, avec col et bas de manches en broderie de chenille ajourée. Ceinture de gayolithe.

Du drap blanc, des biais de satin émeraude coupés de bandes de ruban laqué noir, pour cette autre robe.

Coat dress. The tunic-jacket in two-tone chenille fabric sits over a perliane white sequined underdress.

A velvet-chiffon dress, emerald, with collar and cuffs in openwork chenille embroidery. Galalith belt.

White cloth, emerald bias cut satin with diagonal strips of black glossy ribbon, for this other dress.

Galalith is a specific type of plastic often used in fashion and accessories (think buttons, beads, combs, etc).

Bias cut fabric is when fabric is cut at a 45 degree angle to the weave of the fabric, rather than horizontally or vertically along the weave.

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Pall Mall Fashions, women's outfits, 1936.

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Women's Blue and Black Hats, 1922

Les Idées Nouvelles | New Ideas

Toquet de panne noire et chute d'aigrettes noires.

Arlequin de genre en satin noir, et rubans de velours bleu.

Forme de style en larges rubans laques, noirs et bleus.

Black panne velvet Toque and falling black aigrettes.

Women's tricorn hat in black satin, plus blue velvet ribbons.

Wide glossy ribbons, black and blue, in the shape of a robe de style.

A Toque was a stiff hat originally worn on top of the head rather than down and around the forehead, though the style could be worn down the forehead as well. An aigrette is a plume of egret feathers, and can be worn on its own as hair decor or attached to another garment (as seen here).

"Forme de style" is in reference to the robe de style dress, which had the low waist of flapper dresses but had full, wide skirts reminiscent of panniers and court gowns of earlier centuries. What forme de style means here is that the hat is wide and droops slightly, mimicking the silhouette of these dresses.

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Women's clothing, 1922

Les Idées Nouvelles | New Ideas

Une écharpe de laine grattée et brochée de Damas or et noir.

Une casaque de taffetas Java jaune d'or avec une fantaisie de biais en mousseline triple.

Une casaque Marie-Antoinette en velours noir et crêpe blanc.

Un veston d'appartement en molleton canari et popeline noire.

A brushed wool scarf embroidered with gold and black damask.

A golden yellow taffeta java gown with a decorative triple bias strip of muslin.

A Marie-Antoinette style casaque in black velvet and white crêpe.

A canary yellow fleece and black poplin apartment jacket.

A casaque is a style of blouse popular in the 1920s. Marie-Antoinette style means that the casaque is tight at the waist and flared out, as opposed to the popular silhouette of the time - think peplum.

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House of Worth dinner dress, 1921.

Après la danse | After the Dance

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Women's evening/dinner dresses, 1922.

Les Idées Nouvelles | New Ideas

Robe de dîner en velours noir, avec volants de Charmeuse blanche perlée de jais.

Robe du soir en panne de soie mauve, fantaisie de manche-écharpe en franges de soie deux tons.

Fantaisie de manche en crêpe-Georgette mauve.

Black velvet dinner dress with jet beaded white charmeuse ruffles.

Evening dress in mauve silk panne velvet, contrasting scarf-sleeve in two tone silk fringe.

Contrasting sleeve pattern in mauve crepe georgette.