Category Archives: Dress-down Friday
Dress-down Friday: Bryher
A startlingly contemporary vision in between-the-wars film
Dress-down Friday, hommage edition
Casati. Naturally.
Dress-down Friday: Rachilde
Cross-dressing as subversion – or penny-pinching
Dress-down Friday: Joséphin Péladan
“Every exclusively masculine figure is lacking in grace, every exclusively feminine one is lacking in strength.”
Dress-down Friday: Joséphin Péladan
“Every exclusively masculine figure is lacking in grace, every exclusively feminine one is lacking in strength.”
Dress-down Friday: Stephen Tennant
“I just go on looking at them in a dream of bliss…”
Dress-down Friday: Annemarie Schwarzenbach
“Best wishes, Fritz”
Dress-down Friday: Diane de Rougy
A captivating Cantabrigian vision
Dress-down Friday: Liane de Pougy
Postcard images of the grande horizontale
Dress-down Friday: Vali Myers
Vali is having a *moment* dontcha know
Dress-down Friday: Fanny zu Reventlow
The blue-blooded bombshell of Bavarian Bohème
Dress-down Friday: Gerda Wegener’s 1913 fashions
Fanciful neo-Rococo imagery viewed through an Art Nouveau filter…
Dress-down Friday: Gerda Wegener’s 1913 fashions
Fanciful neo-Rococo imagery viewed through an Art Nouveau filter…
Dress-down Friday: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
The baroness is dressed to distress…
Dress-down Friday: Loie Fuller
Step, one, two, swirl, waft, billow, step, one, two…
Dress-down Friday: Beau Brummell
A rucking good time with the ultimate dandy…
Dress-down Friday: Valeska Gert
Gert was pathologically unable to conform to any larger social grouping than that found within her own eccentric outfits.
Dress-down Friday: Valeska Gert
Gert was pathologically unable to conform to any larger social grouping than that found within her own eccentric outfits.
Dress-down Friday: Lulu
The hidden Victorian origins of cross-dressing trapeze artistry…
Dress-down Friday: Oriental Costumes
Illustrations from Max Tilke’s book ‘Oriental Costumes: Their Designs and Colors’, published in 1922
Dress-down Friday: Oriental Costumes
Illustrations from Max Tilke’s book ‘Oriental Costumes: Their Designs and Colors’, published in 1922
Dress-down Friday: Dorelia McNeill
“Dorelia and Augustus were seen as representing the principle of living through your ideas, not merely conveying them to canvas or on paper.”
Dress-down Friday: Dorelia McNeill
“Dorelia and Augustus were seen as representing the principle of living through your ideas, not merely conveying them to canvas or on paper.”
Dress-down Friday: Foujita
The Tokyo-born artist alternated between elegant suiting, bohemian work clothes and Japanese robes.
Dress-down Friday: Foujita
The Tokyo-born artist alternated between elegant suiting, bohemian work clothes and Japanese robes.
Strange Flowers 