Tag: Fashion sketches

Imagery, watercolors from a set of four Art Deco fashion sketchbooks kept by “Ernest”. 1915-1930 ish. No further information available but lots of fun.

The Beauty Spot. Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Egyptian Revival Art Deco. Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Orientalist theme. Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Orientalist scene with peacock. Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Ballroom scene. Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Moth lady. Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Woman wearing a headdress with black feathers. Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Woman with a pearl necklace. Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Lilith. Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Smoking lady with orange pillows. Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas
Lady in a red gown with a purple train. Watercolor from a set of Art Deco fashion design scrapbooks kept by “Ernest.” Image © 2023 White Fox Rare Books And Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.whitefoxrarebooks.com/product/1853/Art-Deco-Fashion-Sketchbooks-Four-in-All-with-an-additional-canvas

More selections of children in darling attire. Fashion illustrations from “Modes de Paris. Costumes d’enfant” which came out in 1810. Two different sources a few years apart.

“Toquet (toque) de Velours, Robe et Pantalon de Perkale.” 1810. In the public domain due to age. via https://amiancien.livejournal.com/27632.html
“Chapeau de Feutre, Redingotte et Pantelon de Mousseline.” 1810. In the public domain due to age. via https://amiancien.livejournal.com/27632.html
“Touqet en mousseline brodée, robe Perkale.” 1810. In the public domain due to age. via https://amiancien.livejournal.com/27632.html
“Bourrelet de Perkale, Gilet à Revers, Pantalon pareil.” 1810. In the public domain due to age. via https://amiancien.livejournal.com/27632.html
Casquette en Feutre, Veste, Gilet et Pantalon en Drap. ca. 1810. French. Hand-colored engraving. Taken from a suite of engravings from Modes de Paris titled Costumes d’enfans. Image © Bonhams 2001-2024. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://www.bonhams.com/auction/29883/lot/6/juvenilia-costume-modes-de-paris-costumes-denfans-4-parts-in-1-paris-c1810/
Chapeau Rond, à long poil, orné de Plumes violettes. Redingote de Drap, garnie en Velours. ca. 1810. French. Hand-colored engraving. Taken from a suite of engravings from Modes de Paris titled Costumes d’enfans. Image © Bonhams 2001-2024. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://www.bonhams.com/auction/29883/lot/6/juvenilia-costume-modes-de-paris-costumes-denfans-4-parts-in-1-paris-c1810/

Fabulous dress designs by French Couturier Madeleine Vionnet. If you didn’t wear one of her frocks to that certain little cocktail party given by the Prince of Wales and Wallis you just weren’t chic. |

"Pendant Les 'Modèles' - Chez Madeleine Vionnet." Plate 20.
“Pendant Les ‘Modèles’ – Chez Madeleine Vionnet.” plate 20 from “Gazette du Bon Ton.” Volume 1, No. 3. April, 1932. Lithograph with hand-applied color. Thayaht, illustrator. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/pendant-les-mod%C3%A8les-chez-madeleine-vionnet-plate-20-from-gazette-du-bon-ton-volume-1-no-3-450156

Drawing of a ‘modèle de robe longue’. 1938-39.
Drawing of a ‘modèle de robe longue’. 1938-39. Madeleine Vionnet. Image © Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/exhibitions/les-couturiers/madeleine-vionnet

"De La Fumée - Robe de Madeleine Vionnet."
“De La Fumée – Robe de Madeleine Vionnet.” Plate 13 from Gazette du Bon Ton, Volume 1, No. 2. March, 1922. Thayaht, illustrator. Publisher Librairie Centrale des Beaux-arts. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/pendant-les-mod%C3%A8les-chez-madeleine-vionnet-plate-20-from-gazette-du-bon-ton-volume-1-no-3-450156