EditorialDress with a Tie Belt Black belt silk tie belt, with oval ends adorned with flounces, with hook and eye and three ribs for reinforcement, Black table lace tie belt, with oval ends decorated with flounces. With hook and eye and three ribs for reinforcem...
EditorialWedding dress with pinked flounces Wedding gown, consisting of a body (A) and a skirt (B), made of creamy white ottoman silk, bridal gown consisting of a body and a skirt, made of creamy white ottoman silk. Address: ESPERANCE POS / AMSTERDAM., Esp?ranc...
Editorial'A visiting dress of mulberry cloth created by Lejeune-Soinard ... The skirt is trimmed with two shaped flounces, nearly flat; in the centre of each is a band of chinchilla, surrounded by a sort of castellated Greek design in mauve velvet edged with bl...
EditorialDesign by Beer for an evening dress. It is of velvet, of a shade called "Mérode". The yoke has a festooned edging and is covered with tiny ruches of mousseline de soie. At the foot are two deep pleated flounces of the mousseline. The hat is a head-dre...
EditorialDesign by Beer. An outfit in "pastel" green cloth. The flounces having the appearance of a succession of tiny overskirts. The same lines are repeated in the corsage which is en princesse and fastens up the back. The revers are of white, and are covered...
EditorialDesign by Doucet. 'This ball or dinner gown is made in soft rose satin, the skirt arranged at the back with three graceful flounces of lace. The tablier of guipure, bordered with ermine, repeats the design upon the back and front part of corsage. The s...
EditorialDesign by Fred. A bolero and skirt; an autumn walking dress. It is made of fine faced cloth in a new tint which he has called "fauvette" The skirt has two flounces cut en forme. The bolero has a collar and double revers of white.: it ends in rounded po...
EditorialDesign by Doucet for Carolina “La Belle” Otero, a Spanish born dancer, actress and courtesan. The dress is composed of fine white muslin worn over mauve silk. There is a deep flounce pleated to the skirt and the bodice is trimmed with some rare old...
EditorialWoman with broad brimmed hat, 1642, Etching: only state, Sheet: 3 7/8 ? 3 5/8 in. (9.8 ? 9.2 cm) trimmed 1-2 mm within platemark, Prints, Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607?1677 London), Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders slightly turned to ...
EditorialWoman of Majorca, Spain, 19th century. She wears a fichu-wimple combination tied at the throat with a ribbon bow called a floque, black dress with fitted bodice, black petticoat trimmed with flounces, fobwatch hanging from her belt. Handcoloured copper...
EditorialWoman of Valencia, Spain, 19th century. She wears her hair tied up, gothic lace sleeves, and falbala flounces on her skirt. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Costumes of Various...
EditorialWoman with spiral sleeves, profuse ruffs and flounces, kerchief key-holder. "When one talks of flounces, refer back to the reign of Louis XV, and look at the portrait of your grandmother. Have patience, miss. That which causes such disdain today will e...
EditorialWoman wearing headdress and dress featuring extravagent pleating and flouncing. "Pleated collars, flounces (falbalas) and ruffs (chicories), have never been more in fashion than today. The art of pressing has been raised to the point of perfection. The...