Free Printable Fashion History Illustration: Young Edwardian Ladies in Party Dresses 1 (1904)

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery!
It's the art of never seeming bored,
of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles,
of being fascinating with nothing at all.
― Guy de Maupassant
A vintage fashion illustration from 1904 showing a trio of young ladies (teenagers) gathered round for a conversation during a party. From my personal collection of La Mode Illustrée.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration: Victorian Ladies Setting the Table, 1875

A black and white fashion engraving from a fall 1875 edition of Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine. The following is a description from the publication:

"Nos. 1 and 2 are illustrations of the front and back of a dinner dress of rose-colored poult de soie. It consists of a train-skirt, trimmed with one deep scantily gathered flounce, edged with a knife-plaiting four and a half inches in depth, set on to form a heading. The overskirt is composed of clusters of upstanding folds, two in number, each cluster being strapped on either side with a fine shirred band, and are each connected behind on the train-breadths of the skirt by tied sashes of pink silk with fringed-out ends. These two clusters of folds are each edged with a fine knife-plaiting, giving the appearance of a double tablier. The corset is of the cuirass shape, trimmed with piped folds, and the neck is decorated with a fichu of plaited crêpe de Chine, edged with a fluting of the same. For the making of this dress thirty yards of poult de soie will be required."

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration: Edwardian Ladies' Capes (Eaton's Catalog, 1901)

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
Imagine being able to pay $3.50 for a black brocaded satin cape (with plainer trimmings) and a mere $12.00 for a black brocaded silk cape, lined with India silk, and trimmed with lace and silk ruching. Those were the good old days, right?

Here is an ineteresting page advertising ladies' capes in a 1901 catalog from T. Eaton Co., later known as Eaton's, a Canadian department store chain that was once the largest in the country.

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