Pearls; Gloves; Lace and lace making; Women's shoes; Women's clothing; Necklaces; Headgear; Color in clothing; Clothing and dress; Stripes; Earrings; Sleeves; Arches; Gargoyles; Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615; Ruff
Marguerite of France, the first wife of Henri the IV, wears a charcoal colored dress with a large skirt, with a wheel farthingale. The underdress is purple with nine, bright yellow stripes at the hem. She wears white gloves and her cuffs are white...
Clothing and dress; Belts (Clothing); Bodices; Fur garments; Women's hats; Necklaces; Sleeves; Cuffs (clothing); Women's clothing; Dresses; Isabella, Queen, consort of Edward II, King of England, 1292-1358
A woman wears the costume of Isabella of France. She extends her right arm and holds up the skirt of her outer robe with her left, revealing the hem of her underskirt. She wears her hair tucked into a black hennin with a sheer white veil at the...
Two women and a girl stand in a well-appointed French parlor during France's Second Empire period. The woman in the center wears a blue dress with a three-tiered skirt and three-quarter sleeves. The dress is accented with bands and square motifs of...
In this illustration of a Catholic family, a mother prepares her daughter for her First Communion while the girl's brother stands nearby. With one hand on a prie-dieu and the other holding her prayer book, the girl wears a white full skirted dress,...
A woman and a child stand with a young girl who seems to be dressed for her confirmation. The woman on the left wears a long full skirted skirt and jacket of blue satin. The skirt has six horizontal bands of ruched panels. More ruched bands edge...
Clothing and dress; Women's clothing; Women's hats; Veils; Necklaces; Color in clothing; Women's shoes; Cuffs (Clothing)
A woman, dressed in "Paris fashion" from the reign of Charles VII, wears a black hennin with an attached veil that reaches to the ground. Underneath the hennin, another small veil covers her forehead and the back of her neck. She wears an elaborate...
Clothing and dress; Women's clothing; Lace and lace making; Headgear; Women's shoes; Foundation garments; Handkerchiefs; Buttons; Shoe buckles; Men's clothing; Coats; Hosiery; Wigs; Dresses
A woman wears a pale blue satin gown, with a darker blue stomacher with trim and white lace at the neck and pink lapels on the bodice. Below the blue upper sleeves are wide white lace cuffs. Her shoes are white and pointed with a bow at the toe and...
A man wears the clothing of a Seigneur from the reign of Louis XIV. He wears a brown, wide-brimmed hat with a large green and yellow bow on the right side. He wears another green and yellow striped bow around his neck, with a lace cravat below. His...
A mother and eight children display their Parisian fashions for December, 1903, while they gather for a party. The figure of the mother divides the composition in half with four younger children on her right and four adolescents on her left. The...
Women's clothing; Hats; Coats; Color in clothing; Lace and lace making; Handkerchiefs
Two women, the left one facing away, and the right one sitting down. The woman on the left wears a white bonnet trimmed in pink with a pink ribbon rosette. She wears a pink dress and a green mantelet or short cape with three rows of white lace...
Women's clothing; Color in clothing; Dresses; Hats; Hair ornaments; Flowers; Fans; Handkerchiefs; Coats; Feathers
Two women standing in a parlor. The woman on the left wears her hair dressed with pink flowers and green leaves. Her dress has an off the shoulder neckline and short sleeves. The waistline is pointed and the dress has pink flowers and green leaves...
Women's clothing; Color in clothing; Dresses; Hats; Fans; Flowers; Handkerchiefs; Gloves; Teapots
Two women in a parlor with a flagon on a tray, and a glass with a spoon on the table, possibly medicine. The woman on the left is sitting in a green upholstered arm chair, and wears a white lace cap with green ribbon. Her dress or nightdress is...
Two women are depicted just outside a concert room. In the room, a man plays the piano while another man sings. The visible audience is entirely female. Draped on the back of the chair closest to the door is an ermine fur garment. The woman on the...
Three children gather around a baby in an effort to entertain the child before its christening ceremony. The child wears a long white ruched christening gown trimmed with bands of pleating and lace and a wide pink bow. The child wears an elaborate...
One of several drawings from "La Vieille Armee francaise" (1820) or "La Vie politique et militaire de Napoleon" (Paris, 1826), showing infantry uniforms or "military exploits under the First Empire, which made [Charlet's] work popular with the...
The woman wears a blue, off-the-shoulder dress with a closely fitted, tapering bodice and full skirts. The straight neck is edged with a wide band of white lace with a pale blue bow at the center, over the bust. The sleeves are tiered and puffed,...
Brocade; Clothing and dress; Color in clothing; Cuffs (Clothing); Fur garments; Headgear; Necklaces; Tables; Veils; Women's clothing; Pearls; Gloves; Rubies; Emeralds; Earrings; Elisabeth, of Austria, Queen, consort of Charles IX, King of France,...
A woman, in the costume of Elisabeth of Austria, wife of King Charles the 9th, wears a white and gold dress. The fabric is patterned to suggest a brocade patterned with flowers, leaves, and grapes. She has a white partlet in a diamond pattern,...
Bows (Ribbon work); Caps (Headgear); Clothing and dress; Ribbons; Seas and oceans; Seaweed; Women's clothing; Women's hats
A young woman stands ankle-deep in calm turquoise blue waters in her bathing costume. Her sleeveless costume is of a brown mottled fabric with pink shoulder straps and ribbon tied in a casual bow just below the bust, creating an Empire waist. The...
This Parisian Costume entitled "Manon" of 1914 was designed by artist H. Robert Dammy in the late eighteenth-century style of the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The costume, meant to be worn at a masquerade ball, has a rose motif. The...
