1908

Modes de Paris, 1856

Ferdinand Flodin - Porträtt av en ung dam, 1922

1902. Cinco profesoras del Instituto Palmer.

El Instituto Palmer era una escuela primaria y secundaria para estudiantes negros en la zona rural de Carolina del Norte.

Journal des Demoiselles, 1905

5th December 1923

De soirée, circa 1894

Romà Ribera

embroidered and beaded gown

c. 1907

Gustave Beer

Whitaker Auction

Collection of women's fashions at the Longchamp races, 1900. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Adelaide Smith, 1903

La Mode Illustrée, November 1899

Mary Ann Collman, Alfred Stevens. 1854.

history myth busted: "Victorian photos had minutes-long exposure times!" nope! by as early as the 1840s, it was down to 20 seconds!

history concept sustained: 20 seconds is still a pretty long time to sit completely motionless, not even moving your eyes from a fixed point. it is easy to see how motion blurs continued to be an issue throughout the 19th century, and posing stands were in common use (I just tried it with a timer on my phone)

Portrait of actress Ingeborg Hagman, 1908.

Dress

Late 1840s

silk trimmed with silk fringe

The John Bright Collection

Red Velvet (Cup)cake

Okay so…. @sassy_c_art_shop sent me their prompt list for Fooduary and I was like… I have been a little bored of drawing men and pants over and over for the ASOIAF guys…maybe I could have a treat? So we’re taking a brief pause to do an extraneous food challenge bc apparently nothing beats art block like creating more work for yourself. Effectively I got the idea-worm of using historically-relevant fashion+human food character design and then I had to do it. Day 1’s prompt is red velvet cupcake and I love Red velvet cake, the cream cheese icing blew my mind as a child and it’s still my favourite cake to this day. Now the history of the red velvet cake can’t really be pinned down (get used to that lots of these can't decide on the dates of desert creation apparently) but velveteen cake is a turn of the last century invention and it is speculated that in Depression era America people were using beet juice as a sugar support/substitute which inspired the red twist to things. One source claimed that the first cookbook recipe for red velvet cake was from 1943 which is the ballpark fashion era I eventually decided on. What do you think? Does the inspiration shine through?

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