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Summer is on us, and so is the bathing suit season, of which perils I will not elaborate here, only to say that I would much rather deal with what goes with wearing current bathing suits than have to wear one of these charming creations
or bathing dresses from 1864.
This Photo is from the collection of Claremont Colleges Digital Library
The Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby Fashion Plate Collection comprises 650 images of nineteenth-century fashion plates from the Macpherson Collection of the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College. The collection was donated to the Denison Library in 1948 by Scripps Trustee Benjamin Kirby (1876-1957) and is named for his first wife, Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby (1881-1942). In addition to the Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby collection, the digital collection includes 65 fashion plates donated to the Denison Library by Elliot E. Lawrence.
The full-color fashion plates in the Kirby collection were culled from a variety of women’s periodicals and other mass-circulating works published between 1789 and 1914. The images are primarily from France, Britain, America, and Spain, and depict scenes of nineteenth-century middle- and upper-class life with an emphasis on the leisure practices of bourgeois women, men, and children. A number of plates also derive from trade journals for tailors, who used the images to create made-to-order garments for fashionable men.
One needs to dedicate a good few hours to going through the whole collection, or even just parts of it, since it is so rich, and so different from our fast. furious throw away fashion of now days.
Via BibliOdyssey
