yes, i am smug.
well this late night post is also quite self gratifying. I have spent around two hours on this and i wanted to show the wood engraved art style i've been trying to emulate.
This image is copied from the victorian harpers bizarre book and is a summer gown and hat designed in 1894.
I have also read a fair amount of Fashion and Womens Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century by Cecil Cunnington. The writing style is a 'wordy' convoluted mess, leaving a very small amount of information to be displayed with any sense of clarity.
This book should be a golden egg for my research, but it has left me dissapointed. My main gripe comes from the fact that some bloke from the 1930's would be able to understand the female psyche of women from the century previous using rare quotes from historical documents.
To his credit, this may well have been quite 'out there' for its time dealing with gender conflicts and relationships as a science.
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