All posts tagged: 1910s

Rate the Dress: Heather’s purple in 1910

Last weeks 1830s dress received surprisingly (at least compared to the popularity of 1830s fashions in the past) good reviews, with the only major complaint among most of you being that the colour was unflattering. The dress rated a 7.4 out of 10 To counter the claims of unflattering colours, this week I feature a dress that we know was specifically chosen by the wearer because she found the colour flattering. This summer day dress is from the wardrobe of Miss Heather Firbank, daughter of a wealthy British MP. According to her brothers biographer, Heather “had beauty, and she adorned it with exquisite clothes of a heather colour to complement her name”. This palest lavender dress could certainly be described as heather coloured, but is it exquisite? And is the shade flattering? Or a little insipid? Rate the Dress on a scale of 1 to 10

An American in Gloucestershire

Published by The Dreamstress

No American things of “doing” England without seeing our valley, which is famous for its scenery and its ruins. Thus you always find a number of women in trim “shirt-waists,” and wearing large chiffon veils on top of their hats at angles quite unknown to the English woman, sitting on the platform about train time, writing the usual budget of picture postcards. From The Flower-Patch Among the Hills, by Flora Klickmann, first published 1916

Mme Poiret II

Published by The Dreamstress

My model for the most recent talk reminds me so much of images of Denise Poiret that I have to stop myself calling her Mme Poiret when I talk about her. I’m not sure what it is – there isn’t a huge physical resemblance, but when I watch Denisette move, and pose, I ‘see’ Denise in my mind, as an echo or shadow moving with my living model. It’s a very propitious sign in a model! These photos were all taken during the photoshoot on November 21