The Archive · 1934

Distinctive Dresses

tightly to her body, finished with its Engle id ju the days of "gude Queen Bess." Her sheadress was a hood with a large crescent of pearl beads eck or ake signed from @ contemporary portrait: by Vandyck was the lovely creation ald brocaded flame satin worn court of Charles I into the splendour of the cosmopolitan corey at the With her hair in ringleted coiffure, and her tight bodice and full skirt.

Jacobean Indy of fashion, Through the Ages Gorgeous and rich was the costume of Mist Gretel Bullmore wi Smpersonated' the Comtesse "clu Barry. in the exquisite attire pre valling in the highest circles. during! The middle and late 1700's, "A burst of dazzling splendour and bejewelled eppulence' was. the Tussian Pesos conte worm by Ake. eh, lock who illustrated the. pene of "imperial" despotism. dominating Guring' the reign of Catherine. the Great in Russia, Marie Antoinett Influence upon fashion. was. grab! ally Timmed by the genuine 150

Schif di suve'c, while Miss Susan gain wr by Baroness Macnaghten was chaming. in. the American Colonial period costume of the George Washington eva. Mrs. Lewis Andicws! costume de: proven: ade displayed the short jacket and Quaint bonnet popularized. by. the Hltatea "Marie "Antoinette "abo 1100, Chetore "Migs Matihda Chie, 8 ye-incarnating, the moment, Mme Recamier the appeared in a quite in. the mode of the aceom-Dlished Frenchwoman's period. {Countess Brockenhus Schack, roll ack me te'the ayu et Eon: ress Eugenie with her extravagant' crinoline carried out in brocaded green silk in a pastel shade, draped in, ters with, yards of filmy" Ince which was also used to complete the costume with drapes placed the low neckline, leaving her shoulders bare. Miss Kitty" Lambe, ae companied by Miss Arra Jean Kim. ball evoked the Victorian age, ani Swept past the company in the vas!

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