Costumes Parisiens 145: Blouse de ratine à ceinture brodée
Published by Vaugirard French
Not on view
Illustration with a design for a Terry blouse with embroidered belt, part of the 64th issue of the "Journal des dames et des modes", published in Paris on March 1, 1914. The illustration features a woman wearing a loose, hip-length purple Terry blouse with a black belt with embroidered flowers and scrolling borders, white and purple stripes in the front, adorned by small, orange buttons, a white shirt neck, and with black fur on the borders, the neck and the sleeves, over an ankle-length skirt with thin, light bluish-gray and white vertical stripes, and black fur border. She wears a small, tight, white "cloche" hat and white high heels with thin, black stripes. Her face is made up with faint blue eyeshadoe, pink blush and red rouge on her lips. She stands in a part with green pastures, in front of a river or lake devised behind her, looking at a black bird, perched on a tree without leaves next to her.