"La Mode en 1910"
Photography
Inventory number
2019.6.11.25.PH.PC.1910.FRAuthor:
Xavier SAGER (French, 1881 - 1969)Description
This postcard depicts a humoristic scene, making fun of the hobble skirts introduced in the 1910s by Paul POIRET.At the table of a café are sitting a man and a woman, looking at another woman. The man is wearing a brown jacket with camel-coloured pants and a cream-coloured waistcoat, a white shirt and a black tie. The first woman is wearing a pink dress, a striped high-collar shirt underneath and an oversized green hat with a very large pink bow. The second woman is wearing a blue dress and brown fur stole with a wide-brimmed light blue hat adorned with a pink feather. Near her ankle is a spikey band of gold-looking metal with a lock. The artist thus suggests that the "hobble" skirts are overly restraining and unpractical.
In the back, a couple is walking away, but the woman can clearly be seen sporting the same kind of silhouette, wearing a pink dress, extremely narrow mid-calves and with a very oversized hat.
Materials
PaperInk
Origin
1910 FranceDimensions
Length : 14 cmHeight : 9.5 cm