Showing posts with label French fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French fashion. Show all posts

Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Ladies in Black Promenade Costumes, 1886

Victorian ladies in black promenade costumes, 1886.
Ready to go trick or treating perhaps?
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustrations for Altered 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, Junk Journal, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Between Dances, 1870s

In Between Dances, 1870s
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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 Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Something Odd, 1859

Something Odd, 1859
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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: Reception Robe, 1902

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
Robin Hobb

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes
without messing up the shine on his shoes.
Harry S. Truman

Vintage photo illustration of an Edwardian lady in a reception robe from 1902. Free high-res 6" x 8.25" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark for altered art, graphic design, 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 Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Junk Journal, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Edwardian Lady and Girl on Deck of Ship 1, 1904

There's always another storm. It's the way the world works.
Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms.
Some are fierce and others are small.
You have to deal with each one separately,
but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.
Maria V. Snyder, Fire Study

Antique fashion history illustration from 1904 showing a veiled Edwardian lady and her daughter on the deck of a ship in the midst of a stormy sea.

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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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Free Printable Vintage Illustration for Cardmaking, Journaling, Scrapbooking or Wall Art: Conversation in the Conservatory, 1857

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude.
To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility,
is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire.
For politeness is like a counter ― an avowedly false coin,
with which it is foolish to be stingy.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Antique illustration originally published in 1857 showing two Victorian ladies in (one-sided?) conversation in a conservatory.

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 JPEG without a watermark here.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Edwardian Lady in the Park with Valerian Border

PROMISE YOURSELF

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

An Edwardian lady in the park with a border of valerian flowers on the left side of the image, 1904; from my personal collection of La Mode Illustrée.

The genus name of valerian comes from the Latin “valere,” which means “to be strong” or “to be healthy,” in reference to the plant’s medicinal properties. It is an ancient herb; the Greeks used valerian to ward off evil, hanging valerian bunches in windows. The Celts hung it in their homes to ward off lightning. The herb was included in both love and sleep potions. Other magical uses include purification, such as consecrating ritual tools, promoting peace, breaking hexes, and providing stability and happiness. Valerian is used for grounding during emotional turbulence and for aiding in creativity.

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