1918 fashion

Chanel - 1917

Then- Get out the feather duster! The Sears Roebuck catalog c. 1920 provided women with some basic cotton dresses for working at home. Now- Check out these six versions of the comfortable house dre…

"The Lost Art of Dress" by Linda Przybyszedwski, PHD I will refer to the kind Dr. as Dr. Pski hence forward. Dr. Pski is a professor at Notre Dame, noted historian, and a woman who loves to sew. Don't you just love that combination? She believes she is the only woman to present before the Supreme Court in an outfit of her own making. Our kind of woman, right? In this book she introduces us to the "Dress Doctors", a group made up of retailers, extension agents, home economists, writers and…

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Another fashion page from the Delineator, this one is dated May 1918. Part of a gift package from Evening* :-))

Next week is the Hamilton Gardens’ Mansfield Garden Party, and I’ll be speaking on garden party fashions in Mansfield’s life at the Glory Days Garden Party Salon. The Hamilton Gardens have chosen to set the Mansfield Garden party in 1922, the year Mansfield’s story was published (it came out in early Feb, 1922 – and Mansfield had been living with Northern Hemisphere winters for the last 12+ years), rather than ca. 1907, which is when Mansfield was in Wellington, attending garden parties, and…

"Military Grad & Girl" by artist C. McClelland Barclay. Vintage 1930 Saturday Evening Post magazine cover from Retro Reveries. A West Point graduate proudly carries his diploma, girl on his arm, as he heads off to a bright and exciting future in the US Army. This would make a wonderful gift for a West Point grad. You could display it in a study or den for a nostalgic flair. #RetroReveries #etsy #westpoint #nostalgia #1930s #mancavedecor

From “Les Modes,” 1917 Just to give this post some context, I’m including WWI images from Wikipedia Related posts: Paris Fashion from the Turn of the Last Century — Les Modes Fashion from Paris – Les Modes February 1907 French Fashion – 1910

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