"Mannequins en Ballade"

Photography

Inventory number
2019.6.11.17.PH.PC.C1910.FR
Author:
Xavier SAGER (French, 1881 - 1969)
Description
This postcard depicts four women wearing similar outfits in differing colours, with the common point of each having an umbrella.
Starting on the left is a woman wearing a trouser jumpsuit with green stripes and pink dotted detailing at the waits, neckline and cuffs. Her hat is pink, narrow, and adorned by a yellow feather on the opposite side. The second is wearing pink trousers and jacket, a white shirt with a jabot neckline and a black fur hat. The third is wearing an ochre yellow jacket and trousers ensemble, with black lining on the jacket and stirping on the trousers. The trousers' cuffs are narrower and blue, coordinated to the collar of the jacket. Her hat is long and bell-shaped, with a large green feather. Finally, the fourth woman is wearing trousers with matching short dress, blue with a geometrical pattern, a pink ribbon ar the waist and black fringes where the dress finishes. Her hat is mostly compsoed of pink feathers.
Materials
Paper
Ink
Origin
circa 1910 France
Dimensions
Length : 14 cm
Height : 9.5 cm