1900’s in fashion for women. Learn the history of the authentic Edwardian fashion look. The trends, dresses, corsets, makeup, hairstyles, and where to buy.
As the 20th century dawned and the Edwardian age began, fashion belonged only to the privileged few.
The Paris couturiers catered only for wealthy society ladies in their frills and corsets. It was La Belle Epoch, the beautiful age. It would see the advance of modernism, and the culmination during WW1 of the fight for women’s suffrage and emancipation.
This was echoed by the styles featured here in these historical posts.
Read the history of Edwardian style, featured in period films and television dramas such as A Room with a View, Downton Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs. Get inspiration for your Edwardian costume, boots, tea dress.
AI restored 1906 film of a group of Edwardian college girls on a manic sleigh ride through the winter snows of Gloversville NY. Now with sound, 60 fps motion interpolation and AI upscaling to 4k, you can join in the madness of these young women laughing and screaming their way through a winter sleigh ride …
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At the height of the World War 1. is this mesmeric little feature depicting Paris fashion in 1917, depicting a parallel universe of feminine grace. Restored using AI deep learning and neural networks technology. Paris Fashion 1917 – AI Enhanced film As a historical time capsule, we see the commonly worn fox fur stoles, in …
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54 years before Marilyn Monroe‘s white dress moment in the Seven Year Itch, there was Florence Georgie! Here is the 1901 film, enhanced with AI neural networks, which inspired that iconic scene. Enhanced using AI neural networks,“What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York” starred actress Florence Georgie and actor A.C. Abadie. The original print was …
Read more1901 Inspiration for Marilyn Monroe’s White Dress Scene
Brought to life using AI 4K upscaling and 60 fps frame interpolation, a 1904 film of the Edwardian era Gibson Girl. punching time sheets. Interpolated from original 15 fps to 60 fps, for added depth awareness, up-scaled to 4 K, and finally colorized using AI algorithms. We also added an ambient soundtrack. Filmed at Westinghouse …
The Art of Colorist Olga Shirnina – Color Restored Vintage Fashion There are many apps these days which claim to colorize, with a click of a button, your old black & white photographs, but these compare poorly to the work of a real artist. I’ve seen many good colorists over the years, but none compare …
An illustrated ode to the ubiquitous ‘brolly’ “We moved under the umbrella out of the street light, fumbling for certain footing between the tree roots. ‘Will you hold the umbrella?’ She took the imitation leather with the white stitching in her hands. ‘Kiss me.’ She leaned across the steel between us. ‘Do you think we should?’ I …
Rare photos of pre-1916 Rising Edwardian Ireland – Medical student J.J. Clarke took these photographs in Dublin between 1897 and 1904. Visit the National Library of Ireland online to view the original source files. Unlike the usual studio portraits of the period, these photographs seem almost modern, with the young photographer concentrating on people in …
Read moreAmazing Street Style captured in Joyce’s Dublin 1904
Carousel Film Tribute to Paris – Anaïs Nin -“Paris intimate like a room.” Stills and Stories and a video tribute to Paris. Carousel – 140 Years of Parisian Cafe Culture – 1877 to 2015 Think of France, and you think of Parisian cafe’s, the Belle Epoch era, the paintings of Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Renoir, …
A photographic trip back through time – College girl fashions are an often overlooked source of both style and female trends.Whether they start in the schools or have been adopted over the years from fashion periodicals, young women heading to college in 2015 may well be putting as much effort in to their style and …
Booklet of cartoons of leading French actresses in 1900 – Leonetto Gappiello from Italy and based in Paris is considered to be the father of the 20th Century Art Deco Poster. He succeeded lithographers like Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Cheret, and Alphonse Mucha to become the leading advertising poster designer in 1900’s Paris. His technnique moved away …
Read moreBirth of Art Deco Fashion – Cartoonist Leonetto Gappiello