This fine reproduction of a 1929 French fashion catalog features styles for all occasions. More than 50 color illustrations showcase elegant dresses, gowns, and coats from the designers of an influential and the world over renowned studio. Designs come with a promenade and celebration frocks of silk, lace, and taffeta, all within the era’s distinctive dropped-waist, knee-length mode, forming a panorama of fashions favored by flappers, society matrons, and other women of the 1920s.
A rare source of authentic period styles, this volume will turn out a very good guide for designers, costume historians, and collectors of vintage apparel. Color images of Jazz Age fashions are few and a ways between, and these full-page illustrations offer clear views of trimmings, seaming, and other main points. Notes on each and every model come with details about the costume’s intended season and occasion, fabrics, and accessories.