Showing posts with label 1890s fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1890s fashion. Show all posts

Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Ladies in At-Home Dresses, 1893

“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once,
"I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those
on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens
but just those that bring simple little pleasures,
following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

Ladies in at-home dresses, 1893
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Twin Brides on the Terrace, 1892

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me.
But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness.
On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield;
it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time
if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.
Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

Twin brides on the terrace, 1892
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: A Floral Offering 1

A Floral Offering, 1893
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: The New Ring 1

The New Ring, 1893
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustrations for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Ladies in Hats 2

Victorian Ladies in Hats (Set 2)
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Reservation for One, 1893

Reservation for One, 1893
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustrations for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: At the Concert Hall, 1892

At the Concert Hall, 1892
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustrations for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: New Collars, 1893

New Collar 1A
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New Collar 1B
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: A Touch of Melancholy, 1893


I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry,
thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.

Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain,
the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still,
and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.
Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale

And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...
Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems

Antique fashion history illustration from 1893 showing a Victorian lady in fancy hat and bow, looking as if she is touched by melancholy. Free high-res 6" x 7.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for altered art, graphic design, junk journal, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Lady with Urn 1, 1893

I never travel without my diary.
One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Seán O'Casey

Antique fashion history illustration from 1893 showing a young Victorian lady with an urn. Free high-res 8" x 12.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for altered art, graphic design, junk journal, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Walking Suit for Autumn, 1893

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious
as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition

Antique fashion history illustration from 1893 showing a Victorian lady out for a walk outdoors in a suit for fall (autumn). Free high-res 6.5" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for altered art, graphic design, junk journal, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Junk Journal, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Up the Front Steps, 1893

Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life
can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Antique fashion history illustration from 1893 showing a Victorian lady striding up some front steps with great confidence. Free high-res 6" x 9" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, junk journal, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Junk Journal, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Ladies in Summer Wear, 1893

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer,
the top of the live-long year,
like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.
The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring,
and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn,
but the first week of August is motionless, and hot.
It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons,
and sunsets smeared with too much color.
Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

Antique fashion history illustrations from 1893 showing two young Victorian ladies in their fine summer wear. Free high-res 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, junk journal, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Junk Journal, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Evening Around Town, 1893

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
J.K. Rowling

May your adventures bring you closer together,
even as they take you far away from home.
Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

Antique fashion history illustration from 1893 showing two Victorian ladies on an evening out around town.Free high-res 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, junk journal, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Junk Journal, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Summer Stroll, 1893 (2)

Fill your life with women that empower you,
that help you believe in your magic
and aid them to believe in their own exceptional power
and their incredible magic too.
Women that believe in each other can survive anything.
Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.
Nikita Gill

Antique fashion history illustration from 1893 showing four Victorian ladies strolling in a wooded park or garden.Free high-res 11" x 8.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, junk journal, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Junk Journal, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Summer Stroll, 1893

He knew he would always remember her,
standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile,
enough to turn the future into summer.
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

Mystique saturates, gluts the air,
Adventure’s even more than rare,
Excitement’s everywhere to share,
And Novelty’s beyond compare.
Mariecor Ruediger

Antique fashion history illustration from 1893 showing four Victorian ladies strolling in the park.Free high-res 12" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for collage, junk journal, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects here.

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Printable Fashion History Illustration: Beach Party, 1893

I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder
As you and I once heard their monotone.

Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me
The cold and sparkling silver of the sea --
We two will pass through death and ages lengthen
Before you hear that sound again with me.
Sarah Teasdale

Victorian ladies outdoors at a beach party. Originally published 1893. You can download the high-res 10" x 10" JPEG without a watermark here.

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Free Printable Vintage Illustration for Cardmaking, Journaling, Scrapbooking or Wall Art: Two Portraits of Victorian Women in Ruffles

Life is full of challenges, seen and unseen,
so to look and feel great, you must hold your head up each day
and project your inner confidence.
Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

Starlight beats when heart twinkles
Youthful sky beyond cloudy wrinkles
Muse of glory to flame the night
Verse inscribed as written light
Munia Khan

TWO antique illustrations of Victorian young ladies wearing ruffled outfits from c1890. The first portrait is of a young lady with glossy chestnut brown hair and clear, beautiful brown eyes that look out into the world serenely, lending her an air of easy, calm confidence.

The second portrait is also of a brunette. She is wearing a cluster of tiny, pink flowers pinned to her bodice and her crystal blue eyes gaze dreamily out into the world.

Free to download for use in cardmaking, journaling and scrapbooking projects or simply print and frame as wall art. You can find the high-res 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without a watermark here and here.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration: Victorian Ladies in Walking & Travel Dresses, 1893

When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart.
Katsura Hoshino

There’s something about arriving in new cities,
wandering empty streets with no destination.
I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.
Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

Two Victorian young women in walking and travelling dresses. Originally published in 1893. You can download the 10" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration: Victorian Ladies in Party Gowns, 1892

People of our time are losing the power of celebration.
Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation.
To be entertained is a passive state
― it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle....
Celebration is a confrontation,
giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Two Victorian young women in formal dinner gowns, standing in a formal foyer or reception area. Originally published in 1892. You can download the 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.

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