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For Sale: 19th Century Handcolored Fashion Lithos

M.K. Hobson — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:30:39 +0000

As you may recall, I recently scored a pretty sweet haul at Goodwill. Part of that haul was a set of four 19th-century handcolored fashion lithos from La Moda Elegante Ilustrada, a Spanish fashion magazine. It was basically Spain’s answer to Godey’s Lady’s Book (or perhaps Godey’s Lady’s Book was America’s answer to La [...]

Shine and Sham: America’s Gilded Age

M.K. Hobson — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:31:17 +0000

“Asymmetry is the dominant characteristic of 1870s cover design. Countering the previous two decades’ heavy reliance upon a symmetrical style, designers began to work in a freer way and to use the diagonal as an axis. Shiny black ink was frequently employed, both supported and set off by stampings in gold.”

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Bustles and Centaurs

M.K. Hobson — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:18:30 +0000

Today at the LJ group “La Mode Illustree”: Bustles!

OK, to be quite honest it’s pretty much bustles all day every day at La Mode Illustree. But the bustle shown in the picture here got me to thinking that I really need to write a story with a Victorian centaur-ess in it. Because really, [...]