oldrags:

Robe, 1780-85 France, the Victoria & Albert Museum

This gown demonstrates the fashionable styles in women’s formal dress of the 1780s. The hoop has changed from the square shape of earlier decades to a round profile. A stomacher is no longer needed, because the gown now meets in the front. The cream silk is adorned only at the edges with an embroidered band, ribbon and a stencilled fringe. This restraint in decoration illustrates the growing influence of the Neo-classical style in textile design.

oldrags:

Robe de style by Jeanne Lanvin, 1919 Paris, Les Arts Décoratifs

fuckyeahmodernflapper:

Moulin Rouge, 1937.

denise-puchol:

Bibi at Eden Roc, Cap d’Antibes

lartigue 1920

(Source: denisebefore)

monsieurleprince:

French School, XIX century, A young lady with a lyre 

tommygunningsharks:

Sara Murphy, one of the Lost Generation’s most well-known and beloved expats (she even stayed on Hemingway’s good side until he posthumously trashed her in A Movable Feast), sunning herself in Antibes in the 1920s. While wearing pearls. Cause, why not?

(Source: onlesaura)

theticketthatexploded:

(via Pinupmania: Les jolies jarretières.)

(via gentlemanlosergentlemanjunkie)

vivelareine:

A chair from Marie Antoinette’s dairy at Rambouillet

(C) RMN (Château de Versailles) / Droits réservés

(via revwarheart)

victorianalexandratitanic:

Picnic in Versailles 1902