Sujet

Ladies' Page: a grey cloth gown, braided with black, 1898. Creator: Picador.

Légende

Ladies' Page: a grey cloth gown, braided with black, 1898. 'Lately an unknown but charmingly frank correspondent wrote plaintively for suggestions in such colours as "a muddy-complexioned woman might wear." I first prescribed bicycling, next frequent face massage, and after that a course of well-made black and white frocks, and still more black and white varied by occasional and very judicious grey. She has since reported herself an exceedingly good-looking-woman, and wishes to erect me a statue. I am therefore emboldened to give the prescription to all drab-coloured persons whom it may concern'. Sybil. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM26A14_345

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

9.5Mo (888.3Ko) / 12.2cm x 19.5cm / 1437 x 2303 (300dpi)

Mots clés

hat fashion arts hats art complexion clothes British exercise dress Victorian century Britain newspapers press clothing print fashionable concept APPAREL B&W sarcasm sarcastic 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector feather box Illustrated London News ILN newspaper ladieswear women's wear womenswear 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing padded shoulders The Illustrated London News women's page Picador