Category Archives: Fashion

Elegant Costumes: Pompadour

Description	English: Costume design from Les Travestissements élégants by François-Claudius Compte-Calix
Date	1864
Source	Le Travestissements élégants (https://archive.org/details/lestravestisseme00comp/page/n7/mode/2up)
Author	François-Claudius Compte-Calix

Elegant Costumes: Eve

Description	English: Costume design from Les Travestissements élégants by François-Claudius Compte-Calix
Date	1864
Source	Le Travestissements élégants (https://archive.org/details/lestravestisseme00comp/page/n7/mode/2up)
Author	François-Claudius Compte-Calix

Elegant Costumes: Mercury

Description	English: Costume design from Les Travestissements élégants by François-Claudius Compte-Calix
Date	1864
Source	Le Travestissements élégants (https://archive.org/details/lestravestisseme00comp/page/n7/mode/2up)
Author	François-Claudius Compte-Calix

Elegant Costumes: Gypsy

Description	English: Costume design from Les Travestissements élégants by François-Claudius Compte-Calix
Date	1864
Source	Le Travestissements élégants (https://archive.org/details/lestravestisseme00comp/page/n7/mode/2up)
Author	François-Claudius Compte-Calix

Elegant Costumes: Viviandière

Description	English: Costume design from Les Travestissements élégants by François-Claudius Compte-Calix
Date	1864
Source	Le Travestissements élégants (https://archive.org/details/lestravestisseme00comp/page/n7/mode/2up)
Author	François-Claudius Compte-Calix

She sells “perfect love” to the soldiers. Doubtless business is brisk.

Elegant Costumes: The Bell

Description	English: Costume design from Les Travestissements élégants by François-Claudius Compte-Calix
Date	1864
Source	Le Travestissements élégants (https://archive.org/details/lestravestisseme00comp/page/n7/mode/2up)
Author	François-Claudius Compte-Calix

The Topaz, by E. T. Parris

Description	English: “The Topaz,” by E. T. Parris
Date	1836
Source	Gems of Beauty (https://archive.org/details/GemsOfBeautyDisplayedInASeriesOfTwelveHighlyFinishedEngravingsFrom/parris-e-gems-1836-RTL003048/page/n53/mode/2up)
Author	Edmund Thomas Parris

The Diamond, by E. T. Parris

Description	English: by E. T. Parris, from Gems of Beauty
Date	1836
Source	Gems of Beauty (https://archive.org/details/GemsOfBeautyDisplayedInASeriesOfTwelveHighlyFinishedEngravingsFrom/parris-e-gems-1836-RTL003048/page/n7/mode/2up)
Author	Edmund Thomas Parris

We have done our best to minimize the strong foxing on the original page, but have not been able to eliminate it.

The Well-Dressed Russian Lady

Description	English: Cartoon of well-dressed lady with spiked armor, from a 1907 Russian almanac
Date	1907
Source	Еженедѣльный Алманахъ 1907 (https://archive.org/details/ezhenedielnyialm16unse/page/n1/mode/2up)
Author	Anonymous

This scalable illustration can be used at any size.

Lacing the Sandal, by F. D. Millet

Description	English: Lacing the Sandal, engraved by Frank French from the painting by Francis Davis Millet
Date	1887
Source	Engravings on Wood (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125015065655/page/n49/mode/2up)
Author	Francis Davis Millet, painter; Frank French, engraver

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