Isn’t this just darling? If I saw that in the shops I would snap it up in a heartbeat! And as much as I love Felicity, I have to admit that the parasol would loose a great deal of its charm if it had a cat on it instead of a dog. Can’t you just imagine Margaret Gorman (yes, the first Miss America) strolling down the sidewalk with that parasol and her darling dog?
Isn’t it darling? I just love how it shows off Madge Bellamy’s comic side, rather than sticking to the usual glamour shots.
Marquisette is a sheer, lightweight mesh or net fabric with a leno weave. It can be made from almost any fibre: silk, cotton, wool, rayon, nylon, polyester and a blend of any of the above. It is used for dresses, curtains, and mosquito netting. It is very similar to grenadine, but with a slightly more open weave. Marquisette can look quite different depending on the fibres used and variants and finished applied to the weave. Finding images of antique dresses made of marquisette is problematic as few museums and garment sellers look at the fabric closely enough (you need to inspect it under a very strong magnifying glass to see the weave) to correctly label marquisette. Many extent 19teens gowns probably include marquisette, but are not labelled as such. The earliest mention I can find for marquisette is an ad for wool and silk ‘box robes’ in 1907, but the term is in quotation marks, indicating that it is still a new and novel word. This must be one of the earliest usages of the …
