Culottes Collection

New Fashion Style from France - Jupes-Pantalons
New Fashion Style from France - three young women wearing Jupes-Pantalons stride confidently - Porte Dauphine, Paris. Date: circa 1910

Thermidorian Reaction. Ninth Thermidor. 27 July 1794. Result. End of the Reign of Terror. Paris. France. Engraving. 19th century. Date:

Woman in white tunic dress trimmed with lilac velvet, velvet hat with lace veil, and yellow fichu. Handcoloured lithograph by A

Costumes of common French people, 1797, Directory era
Costumes of common French people, Directory era. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France)

King Louis XVI of France, in winter costume 1776 with the sash of the Order of the Holy Spirit. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la France

CULOTTES ON CYCLES 1937
Two French ladies cycle into the countryside on their tandem clad in tailored costumes comprised of culottes (divided skirts), a belted blouse or D-B jacket. Date: 1937

Womens fashion 1930s
A blue all-in-one with culottes worn with orange sandals. Date: 1930s

Janet Lyle wearing a silk culotte suit from Annacat
Janet Lyle, who with her business partner, Maggie Keswick, ran Annacat, the South Kensington boutique favoured by some of the smartest young women of London including Lady Herbert

Lily d Alvarez wearing her Schiaparelli tennis culottes
Lili d Alvarez, Spanish tennis player, pictured modelling her famous culottes, or divided skirt which divided opinion when she wore them at Wimbledon in 1931

Lili de Alvarez and her divided skirt
Lili de Alvarez, Spanish tennis player, pictured modelling her famous culottes, or divided skirt which divided opinion when she wore them at Wimbledon in 1931

1960s fashion in London Life magazine
Part of a fashion spread in extremely groovy, but short-lived London Life magazine in 1966. Man on the left wears a pillar box red blazer by Rodex

Early 20th century French Fashion - Jupes-Culotte - pretty model in culottes - voluminous trousers with the appearance of a long skirt

Jupe Pantalon tennis dress by Schiaparelli, 1930
An exclusive Bystander photograph showing the designer, Elsa Schiparellis practical but stylish jupe-pantalon tennis dress in light white woollen weave with a waist belt of orange coloured tussore

Golfing outfit from Marshall and Snelgrove
A golf suit of ribbed angora from Marshall and Snelgrove, comprising a square cut jacket and trousers which look like a skirt when walking (culottes). Date: 1933

French girls wearing Jupe-Culotte trousers - Paris, France
French girls wearing Jupe-Culotte - culottes - voluminous trousers with the appearance of a long skirt. Getting into a rowing boat on the Quay of the Lake in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris

Return of Louis XVI to Paris after his arrest at Varennes af
French Revolution (1789-1799). Return of Louis XVI to Paris after his arrest at Varennes after his escape attempt. June 25, 1791. Engraving by Dupre. Universal Library. Popular editions, 1851. Colored

Fashion for golf 1933
Two models wearing clothes suitable for a game of golf. 1933

Swordfight by fencers with two-handed swords, 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century

Ballet dancers costume from Le Roi des Halles at the Theatre Lyrique.. She wears a white short sleeved dress with baggy culottes trimmed with blue, and a white hat trimmed with blue

Flecked tweed 1929
Specked and flecked tweed winter clothing for casual and sports wear. Date: 1929

A young girl wearing Jupe-Culotte Attire
A young French girl wearing Jupe-Culotte - culottes - voluminous trousers with the appearance of a long skirt, here further disguised by an overcoat with lace collar. Date: circa 1909

Turkish Trousers 1911
A daring young lady wears the fashionable yet scandalous harem pants or Turkish trousers with a sleeveless bolero & turban or toque. 1911

Gladys Cooper trouser skirted
British actress, Gladys Cooper (1888 - 1971), pictured modelling a trouser skirt, divided skirt or culottes for tennis. The look was also pioneered by Spanish tennis player Lili de Alvarez in 1931

Senorita de Alvarez and her divided trousers
The Spanish tennis player, Lili d Alvarez, pictured playing on court at Wimbledon wearing a pair of divided trousers - or culottes - designed by Schiaparelli

Delightfully Turkish
A delightfully Turkish lady in purple dress with her small dog. A Valentines Card

Turkish Girl - Moorish
A La Mauresque - " Lets go Moorish!"

Feminine Shorts 1930S
How to wear shorts & still retain ones femininity: printed linen culottes with cummerbund & bolero worn with wedge heeled strappy sandals over ankle socks

Playsuit Circa 1940
A one-piece play-suit with pleats stitched on the corsage and at the waist

Revolutionary Costume
Costumes of the French Revolutionaries: phrygian caps with tricolor cockades, pantaloons (sans-culottes), greatcoat, breeches are worn with a short military jacket

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