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Monday, August 3, 2009

Swans

A Belle Époque fantasy, courtesy of Mr. Beaton and the ravishing creations of Mr. Charles James; London, 1948.

How extraordinary these dresses must have seemed at the time, coming in the midst of lingering post-war rationing and all that had happened in the past ten years or so....