Chignon Collection

Evening Dress / Worth 1922
Dusky pink evening gown in a bold printed fabric with a low scooped neckline revealing a sleeveless grey bodice beneath. The skirt is draped up over one hip

Geisha hairstyle viewed from rear - Japan
Beautiful photograph showing the complicated shapes, folds and pinning of a Geisha hairstyle viewed from rear - Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Servant girl of Coburg, Franconia, Germany, 19th century. She wears her hair is tied up in a bun, laced bodice, short sleeves, and full pleated petticoats

Woman in the Knights Cross Chignon with fichu bonnet
Rear view of a woman in the Knights Cross Chignon with fichu bonnet embroidered with pearls. Chignon en Croix de Chevalier

Rear view of womans chignon with curls and feathers called the Qu es-aco. Chignon en Qu es-aco. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzannes Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery

Rear view of a womans chignon with two pigtails and four papoose curls called the Chancellor. Chignon a la Chanceliere. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzannes Stylish Hairstyle

Rear view of woman in chignon plaited in three parts with a fichu bonnet. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzannes Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery from the era of King Louis

FANCY STITCH JUMPER 1936
Jumper in rib & a fancy stitch with a square neckline & 3 button fastening. The buttons look like pebbles. Worn with a tweed skirt. Date: 1936

Husband / Wife Paice 1860
A middle-aged couple in the photographers studio

Depiction of Summer 1903
A depiction of Summer showing a woman wearing a reform style tunic dress with uncorseted waistline. She picks cornflowers from a cornfield to decorate her straw hat

Young woman looking the painting The Windmill at Wijk bij Du
Holland. Amsterdam. Rijksmuseum. Young woman looking a Jacob Isaackz van Ruisdael (c. 1628-1682) painting The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, c. 1668-1670

Erminia Borghi-Mamo (1855-1941). Colored engraving
Erminia Borghi-Mamo (1855-1941). French Soprano. Engraving of The Spanish and American Illustration, 1878. Colored

Greek Art Funerary stele. V century B. C
GREEK ART. Greece. V century BC. Funerary stele marble. Relief with a Young offers a bird with her left hand to a child kneeling whos standing to pick it up

Comic Carte de Visite portraits - Persons we all Know. late 19th century

Depiction of Autumn 1903
A depiction of Autumn showing a woman wearing a reform style dress with uncorseted waist & a broad black sash. She stands against some grapevines holding a bonnet by its strings. Date: 1903

Stupendous Chignon
CHIGNONS: A fashion conscious woman, no doubt employing a prodigious amount of false hair, sports a large chignon. Her horse likewise is completely chignoned! Date: 1866

Paris fashion plate 1878
Silk Christmas and New Years party dresses. Hair arranged high, the front parted and waved, or the ends curved forward in crescent shape on the forehead, chignon on the nape of the neck. Date: 1878

Female presser, Paris, early 19th century.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from Tradeswomen of Paris, Paris, 1823

Costume of Vire Bavolet bonnet with short tails
Costume of Bayeux. Falling tails from the bonnet and the false sleeves in a contrasting colour.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux

Woman of Caux in tall bonnet with long lace tails fixed with a large pin.. Almost all the women of Caux wear hairpiece chignon, and their bonnets are embroidered with gold or silver

Costume of Cherbourg The bonnet has short papillon wings
Costume of Cherbourg. The bonnet has short papillon wings.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux, 1827/1885

Women of Bolbec in costume for baptisms, weddings, family reunions or festivals at church.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux

Tradeswoman of Rouen wearing a bonnet called a bavolet
Woman of Fecamp. Like the serre-tete of le Havre, this one too is decorated only to the temples.. In the background on the hill is the church of Notre-Dame-du-Salut

Laundry woman of fine linen at Rouen in a tall bavolet bonnet.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux, 1827/1885

Costume of Madame de Chateau-Regnault, merveilleuse.. Costume of Madame de Chateau-Regnault, merveilleuse in Revolutionary fashion

Fashions November 1875
Lace-edged mantle with tails; blue & grey dress with lattice trim, cape & over-skirts tied at the side over a trained skirt; girl in tunic with epaulettes & horizontal pleats

Empire Fashions 1864
Striped cloak: fringing & lace border. White ball dress with rows of puffings adorned with roses. Pink & white dress: under-skirt with 6 flounces & lace-edged tunic

WOMEN & GIRL 1860
White evening dress worn with a Swiss belt with long fringed ends. Purple & white spotted dress with a black lace shawl. The girl wears a white dress with scallop & bouillon trim

Red & White Dress 1863
White dress: Greek bodice & black Swiss belt. Two dresses with berthas, puffings at the hem, overskirts, flounces of lace & bows. The white dress has a red dentilated trim

Afternoon Gown 1911
High waisted Directoire or Empire line gown in lilac etamine & chiffon embroidered in gold & lilac wooden beads. N.B Cordeliere girdle & floating back panel

Purple Bonnet 1865
Blue: demi-train, silk cord at hem, neck & as a device to loop up floating ribbon ends. Grey & purple: button & flat ribbon trim down the front & in points at the hem

Newest Bonnets for 1868
Spring & summer bonnets designed to be worn at the front of the head. Trimmings: lace, flowers, an aigrette & veils. All have lappets while some resemble small lace caps

Zouave Jacket 1864
Red & black zouave jacket, white dress, skirt trimmed with a wide ruched border. Green dress ornamented with black straps held in place with buttons. Child: mantle

Photo / Costume / Fratelli
Photograph showing the rear view of dress in watered silk with the sleeves ornamented with lace, a broad band of ribbon hems the skirt. Hair: dressed in a chignon

Female Type / Sepia C1860
A dress in a horizontally striped fabric with front buttoning bodice, gigot sleeves, white cuffs & collar, a plain skirt, brooch & pendant on a long chain

Costume Photo / Webster
Redingote or pelisse-robe with button front, bishop sleeves with gathering & button detail, white cuffs & collar, a belt & a brooch worn at the throat

Female Type / Beige Dress
Close-up detail of a jacket bodice with fringed basques, narrow stand collar & funnel sleeves. Her hair is dressed in a chignon with a small straw hat worn tilted forward

Costume / Girl / Photo 1860S
Girl: short dress with full skirted & 3 narrow flounces, puffed sleeves, bodice low & off the shoulders, belt & lacy drawers. Hair: chignon & hair net

GIRL & DESK 1860S
Girl: dress in a large check print, full skirt & vandyked falling collar & sleeves, trimmed with both narrow & broad velvet ribbon. Hair: chignon with hairnet

Costume / 2 Girls 1860S
Two girls in identical dresses with short full skirts, a row of pleated braid on the hem & sleeves & loose bodices with high round necks. Hair: hair net & chignon, ringlets

Evening Cape Coat 1922
Voluminous cape like evening coat by Paul Poiret: oblong yoke in a floral fabric & rounded hem at the back with a red border at the front, plus drop earrings & a headband

Furs / Grunwaldt / Plate 5
Black full-length coat in an unspecified fur, pink hat with black gauze trim; pink & blue tunic dress worn with a black coat with a white fur roll collar. N.B fur rugs on floor

Depiction of Winter 1903
A depiction of Winter: a woman in a reform style dress with uncorseted high waistline, fur-trimmed tunic & a skirt with embroidery. The back is reflected in the mirror

Coats by Worth 1923
Orientally inspired coats by Worth based on a Kimono: orange with voluminous hanging sleeves & fur trim & collar; puce wrap over coat with fur lining & embroidered panels

Evening Dress / Beer 1923
T-bar shoes & a sleeveless drop-waist dress with sash tie which creates a draped effect across the hips & opens up the split on the skirt front. With diamante trim. By Beer

Egyptian Evening Coat
Evening coat in fur & a fabric using motifs from a non- European culture (?Egyptian) with hood & large hanging sleeves giving the garment the appearance of a cloak

Quilted & Ermine Coat
Orientally inpired evening coat with cape collar, loose tubular sleeves & pleated back panel in a quilted brightly coloured ornate printed fabric lined & trimmed with ermine

Satin & Ermine Cloak
Sumptuous evening cloak or wrap in ermine fur bordered with satin lame in an ornate design

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