"This year....fashions are bizarre and common, simple and full of fantasy. Any material from nature's domain can now be introduced into the composition of women's clothes. I saw a charming dress made of corks....
A major designer is thinking about launching tailor-made outfits made of old book-bindings done in calf....Fish bones are being worn a lot on hats. One often sees delicious young girls dressed like pilgrims of Saint James of Compostella; their outfits, as is fitting, are studded with coquilles Saint-Jacques.
Steel, wool, sandstone and files have suddenly entered the vestementary arts....Feathers now decorate not only hats but shoes and gloves; and next year they'll be on umbrellas.
They're doing shoes in Venetian glass and hats in Bacarrat crystal....I forgot to tell you that last Wednesday I saw on the boulevards on an old dowager dressed in mirrors stuck to fabric. The effect was sumptuous in the sunlight. You'd have thought it was a gold mine out for a walk.
Later it started raining and the lady looked like a silver mine...Fashion is becoming practical and no longer looks down on anything. It ennobles everything. It does for materials what the Romantics did for words."- Guillaume Appollinaire, Le poete assassine, 1916
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I have to admit that I love the way that the last pair of shoes look, though I could never really wear them, whether in glass or traditional materials.
Interesting photos!
That yellow (etc.) jacket is pretty stylin'.
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Well that was fun. I've had some pretty strange things in my day!
Sue
Those are fun fashions! But I can't quite see them going down well in our rather wet old mill town in the north west of the UK!!
And you, being a fashionista, presumably wear a fish skeleton on your hat?
Oh Gosh, I sooo love the heels with the crystals!! I would love to have some of those!
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I miss the westside wildness of wardrobe. Pretty everyday in Pasadena. :)
It has been blown wide open
and made by every kind of mind.
Appolonaire...i am just learning of him.
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erin
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