oldrags:

Western fashions for women and children drawn by Yoshu Chikanobu, date missing (ca 1870’s?)

those strappy shoes!!!

oldrags:

Portrait of a young girl in pink dress by Raimundo Madrazo, ca 1890’s

oldrags:

Portrait of Elizabeth Astor Winthrop Chanler by John Singer Sargent, 1893 US, Smithsonian Museum of American Art

oldrags:

Walking dress by Worth, 1886

treselegant:

“STUNNED THE HUMAN ARROW”

The national police gazette, 1896.

calantheandthenightingale:

Virginity by Guillaume Seignac (1870 -1924)

treselegant:

Miss Mary Anderson , stage actress, 1880s.

Wrapped up for the cold weather in a pretty fringed jacket.

oldrags:

Portrait of Aline Mason in Blue by Raimundo Madrazo, date missing (1880’s?)

treselegant:

The illustrated police news reporting on the most important stories of the day.

oldrags:

Mrs Ellinor Guthrie by Frederic Leighton, ca 1865 UK, Yale Centre for British Art