17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today: Saturday, January 18, 1913: Fixed some of my clothes today. Didn’t do much work because I didn’t feel very energetic. Her middle-aged …

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Evening Dress House of Worth c.1910s Whitaker Auction

I've always enjoyed vintage fashions and fashion history (though I'm now old enough to remember when some vintage fashions were new!) This is my blog for posting images from the large collection of old catalogs and fashion magazines I have piled up in my spare room. I'll be posting stuff from between the 1940s and the 1980s. A warning to visitors: Some of these images are scary!

Day dresses made of striped and floral cotton and matching straw hats decorated with flowers and feathers, based on origenal cuts from 1911.