Journal des Demoiselles: French fashion plates from the Edwardian era

Rare collection of 170 large fashion plates from the Edwardian era to the First World War, the Downton Abbey era.

With 36 plates depicting women's fashions from the years 1915 to 1918, a very rare snapshot of wartime Paris modes.

155 hand-coloured and 15 black-and-white lithographs by artists including Aline Goyot, BC and Josey, most with two women modeling the latest fashions. Includes several fancy-dress costumes, wedding dresses and hats, children's outfits and one double-page plate of bridesmaids.

The Journal des Demoiselles was a French fashion magazine aimed at young women aged 14 to 18, and ran from 1833 to 1922. It was edited by Alain Thiery from 1910.

A fascinating set of images that charts the evolution of women's dresses from the S-bend corset, "pigeon-breast" style of the Edwardian era through to the slim and elegant Empire style of the 1910s.

The clothes featured are from the fashion houses Lucien Lelong, Jeanne Paquin, Rouff, Cassiny, Bernard, Bechoff David, the Forcillon sisters, the Callot sisters, Houbigant perfumes, etc.

Most plates in very good condition, one with a 2cm tear, a few with wrinkles, worn edges, faint water stains and off-setting.

Loose plates in a yellow card portfolio with ties.

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