It’s September and time for the big issues of the fashion magazines. Nothing new there as fashion has been described, predicted, laughed at etc. for a very long time.
Both Anna and Christian are very fashion concious. Anna enjoys shopping in Paris with Paul Poiret, Soeurs Callot, Boué Soeurs, Doeuillet, Chéruit, Paquin, and Worth. In 1910.
While researching for the series I have stumbled on stuff I wasn’t actually looking for, such as this wonderful prediction of the fashions of 2002 made by Poul Kronemann (1872-1945) in a Danish magazine called Jakel. This is from 1902:
A promenade suit, a sports outfit, an automobile outfit, a party suit, a patent raincoat and a diplomat suit. And, of course, when you think about what has been on runways in the past 20-30 years, maybe not quite as far of as you think at first glance.
Kronemann wasn’t the only one pondering future fashions. So did Otho Cushings (1870-1942) in this image called ‘weren’t they funny’ from 1914 imagining people of the 1950’s going to a museum to muse on the fashions of times gone by.
He did a bit of reenacting himself like when going to a costume ball dressed as a medieval falconer in a very correct outfit including the falcon, albeit it being stuffed.
I don’t think this look quite caught on in the 50s, at least not in general. My mother’s account of what could be worn at a student costume balls… Well, you might have run into these two. She still remembers a girl wearing two rabbit skins and a string.
Anduin