1916 fashion

Following on from my terminology post about lingerie dresses and lingerie frocks, here are a few more advertisements featuring lingerie frocks from the June 1915 and July 1916 issues of the Pictoral Review magazine. These illustrations show patterns sold by the American Fashion Company. The detailed images give ideas for fabrics and trim, while the simple line drawings show the basic dress lines. Pictoral Review June 1915 Pictoral Review June 1915 Pictoral Review June 1915 The simple line…

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Wondering what the styles and trends were almost a century ago? This Bellas Hess & Co. trade catalog gives us an idea of what fashion was like ninety-seven years ago. Fall and Winter Catalogue No. 74 is from the seasons of 1916-1917. It includes a variety of clothing and accessories such as dresses, blouses and more »

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From the July 1916 issue of McCall's magazine. My vintage website: www.vintage123.com

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A nice set of black and white individual vintage women's fashion images from a 1916 trade catalog. There are 20 individual fussy cut PNG files with transparent backgrounds AND as a bonus I am including colorized versions of the images in the same size. Please note that there might be some color errors in the images due to the automated colorization process. I have digitally restored these images using advanced cutting-edge A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) machine learning algorithms resulting…

From the April 1916 issue of Woman's World magazine. My vintage website is at: www.vintage123.com

Around the turn of the century, there were a lot of rules and guidelines for women to be 'proper' - then there were the additional demands placed on them by men and the business world. Here's a look back at some ideas of beauty from 1912 and 1913.