1917 fashion

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What was the well-dressed young woman wearing in July 1917? A lot of interesting things, as it turns out: there are several new trends in this month’s women’s magazines. First, this from McCall’s Magazine: the first set of patterns for war service-related clothing that I’ve run across: two nurses’ uniforms and two outfits for outdoor work, overalls, and a shorter skirt with bloomers to wear underneath: On a related note, in this month’s The Ladies’ World magazine is a two page spread on “the…

A large set of colorful individual vintage women's fashion images from a 1917 pattern catalog. There are 34 individual fussy cut PNG files with transparent backgrounds and a few feature several models as well as children AND a JPG and PDF with all of the images on them for easier printing. I have digitally restored these images using advanced cutting-edge A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) machine learning algorithms resulting in very crisp and clear images beyond what most vintage image…

What was the well-dressed young woman wearing in July 1917? A lot of interesting things, as it turns out: there are several new trends in this month’s women’s magazines. First, this from McCall’s Magazine: the first set of patterns for war service-related clothing that I’ve run across: two nurses’ uniforms and two outfits for outdoor work, overalls, and a shorter skirt with bloomers to wear underneath: On a related note, in this month’s The Ladies’ World magazine is a two page spread on “the…

"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…

Delineator October 1917

The July 1914 issue of McCall’s magazine coincided with the start of World War I. From this point on, there were many changes in women’s fashion as

What was the well-dressed young woman wearing in July 1917? A lot of interesting things, as it turns out: there are several new trends in this month’s women’s magazines. First, this from McCall’s Magazine: the first set of patterns for war service-related clothing that I’ve run across: two nurses’ uniforms and two outfits for outdoor work, overalls, and a shorter skirt with bloomers to wear underneath: On a related note, in this month’s The Ladies’ World magazine is a two page spread on “the…

Wondering what the styles and trends were almost a century ago? This Bellas Hess & Co. trade catalog gives us an idea of what fashion was like ninety-seven years ago. Fall and Winter Catalogue No. 74 is from the seasons of 1916-1917. It includes a variety of clothing and accessories such as dresses, blouses and more »