Beat that Balmain!

Elsa Schiaparelli.

Evening Cape, 1938.

Evening cape, 1937.
Source: "Fashion"

Isn't that amazing? So much time and love spent on these capes.
Fashion is fast and hard these days, collection after collection. You haven't seen it or the next day there's something better.

Well I'm going to decorate the Christmas tree!
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

xx
Anna

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More old fashion

No camera so I'll post another amazing piece of fashion history.
Today menswear, Of course I love dresses, but these jackets are really worth it, the details are so fabulous.


Man's suit (coat, waistcoat, and breeches)
Wine-red wool, coat and waistcoat decorated with gold braid and buttons wrapped with gold threads, sleeved waistcoat, jabot of Valenciennes laces, sleeve ruffles of Binche lace.
1740
English


Aren't those buttons amazing?


Man's suit (habit à la francaise)
Three-piece set of coat, waistcoat, and breeches, coat and waistcoat of stripped Lyons silk brocade, embroidered with sequins ans mirror beads, waistcoat in silk cannelé, self-fabric-wrapped buttons.
1780
French

Balmain sucks when you see this. Nobody can do this any more.

Hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I do. I've got 2 books with more than 300 pages, so I keep posting "old fashion".

xx
Anna

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"old fashion"

History has always been a great inspiration ad it will always be.

I found these amazing pictures in a book of the Kyoto costume institute.
I just had to show them, fashion was so much more back then, than it's now, just look at these pictures (I haven't got the time to scan them all in, so this is it for now, but I'll post more in time)

From left to the right.
Pink Lyons brocade with stripe ans floral pattern. self-fabric an fly trim; single-flounced pagoda sleeves; matching petticoat.
1770-1775
Yellow Lyons brocade with white floral stripe; compères with buttons; doubleflounced pagoda sleeves; matching petticoat.
1770-1775
Blue Lyons silk cannelé with stripe and floral ribbon motif; compères with buttons; double-flounced pagoda sleeves; matching petticoat.

And here are some details:
I've always had a thing with sleeves, aren't these beautiful?
White linen chintz with blue plant motif; compères with buttons; matching petticoat.
1770
Absolutely the most beautiful gloves I've ever seen.

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