Printable Fashion History Illustration: Victorian Lady in Belle Époque Promenade Dress, 1893

Belief in yourself is more important than
endless worries of what others think of you.
Value yourself and others will value you.
Validation is best that comes from within.
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dreams in a Time of War

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more
than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

A self-confident Victorian lady standing on a balcony with beautiful ironwork, observing the scene below her with great interest. Originally published in 1893. You can download the 6" x 10.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustrations: Edwardian Ladies in Promenade Costumes, 1904 (Set 3)

If you are losing your leisure, look out!
— It may be you are losing your soul.
― Virginia Woolf

That’s the place to get to — nowhere.
One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
Two vintage fashion illustrations from 1904 showing Edwardian ladies dressed in promenade costumes. Original black and white engraving is from my personal collection of antique La Mode Illustrée magazines.

Download and use in various mixed-media collage art, graphic design, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects. You can find the free high-res 8" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration: Victorian Ladies in Evening Gowns, 1857

...and the evening was so beautiful,
that it made a pain in my heart,
as when you cannot tell wether you are happy or sad;
and I thought that if I could have a wish,
it would be that nothing would ever change,
and we would stay that way forever.
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Vintage fashion illustration of two Victorian ladies in dazzlingly beautigul evening gowns. They are enjoying a quiet moment in front of a mirrored mantle. Originally published in 1857.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration: Victorian Ladies by the Sea, 1892

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life
and have fun and project positivity all around you,
you become a sun in the center of every constellation,
and people want to be near you.
― Shannon L. Alder

Grey rocks, and greyer sea,
And surf along the shore ―
And in my heart a name
My lips shall speak no more.
― Charles G.D. Roberts
Vintage fashion illustration of two Victorian ladies on a seaside sojourn; originally published in 1892. Scanned from my personal collection of antique La Mode Illustrée magazines.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration: Edwardian Family on Holiday in the South of France, 1904

“I don't want to go to Peru.”
“How do you know? You've never been there.”
“I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

Edwardian family holidaying in the south of France, 1904; from my personal collection of La Mode Illustrée. Free high-res 8" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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