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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design or Scrapbooking: Walking Dress, 1875

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
William Shakespeare

Walking costume for the country, of blue and pink striped oxford linen, 1875.
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: The Art Lesson, 1875

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas

The art lesson, 1875
(or home toilette of gray summer silk, and grenadine of a darker shade).
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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration for Collage, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Gilded Age Hairdressing Styles by W.J. Barker 3

Which would you rather be if you had the choice
― divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Gilded Age hairstyles from Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine from 1875. These styles were designed by W.J. Barker located at 36, Twenty-Ninth Street (four doors west of Broadway) in New York City.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Sunday Walk, 1875

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays,
and sights become mysteriously distorted.
Haruki Murakami

Mother and daughter on a Sunday walk, 1875
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Printable Fashion History Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Junk Journaling, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Coiffure for a Young Lady, 1866

There's a point, around the age of twenty,
when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Front and back views of a braided coiffure for a young girl. Originally published 1866. To download the free, high-res 9" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without a watermark, please click here. Can be used in altered art, graphic design, junk journaling, papercrafts or scrapbooking projects.

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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage, Junk Journal, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Summer Stroll, 1909 (3)

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
W.H. Davies, Common Joys and Other Poems

Antique illustration of four Edwardian ladies on a leisurely stroll; originally published in 1909. Free high-res 8" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.

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Printable Antique Fashion Illustration: Victorian Lady in Head Dress of Gros Grain Ribbon, 1873

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears,
for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
I was better after I had cried, than before
― more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

The point of life isn't to avoid pain. The point of life is to be alive!
To feel things. That means the good and the bad. There'll be pain.
But also joy, and friendship and love. And it's worth it, believe me.
John Stephens, The Fire Chronicle

A fashion history illustration of a Victorian lady wearing a head dress of gros grain ribbon; scanned from my collection of antique Harper's Bazar magazines. Originally published in 1873.

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Free Printable Fashion History Card for Collage, Journaling, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Hats for Young Ladies, 1872 (Set 1)

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,
"I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Three fashion history illustrations of young Victorian ladies in fancy hats for winter; scanned from my copy of the January 6, 1872 issue of Harper's Bazar.

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Free Printable Fashion History Card for Collage, Journaling, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: The Josephine Evening Dress, 1872

It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.
Lemony Snicket

A fashion history illustration of the Josephine evening dress; scanned from my copy of the December 28, 1872 issue of Harper's Bazar. The description of the costume reads:

"This tasteful dress for balls and receptions is of white Chambery gauze. The demi-trained skirt is of white silk, trimmed about the knee with puffs of white gauze furnished by a ruffle. The long plain over-skirt is not looped; its trimmings is a flounce arranged in fluted box-pleats, each pleat being gathered an inch below the top. The Josephine corsage, without points or basque, has a square bertha of gauze puffs. Grape clusters with embrowned leaves on the left shoulder and in front of the corsage; a garland of grapes and foliage is on each side of the upper skirt. A scarf-sash of rose-colored China crape is knotted loosely on the side. The hair is arranged in a Josephine coiffure. Coral and gold jewelry."

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration for Mixed-Media Collage, Journaling, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Gilded Age Hairdressing Styles by W.J. Barker, 1875

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

Two different Gilded Age hairstyles from Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine from 1875. These styles were designed by W.J. Barker located at 36, Twenty-Ninth Street (four doors west of Broadway) in New York City.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Ladies at the Art Gallery, 1875

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness.
It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind.
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

A fashion history illustration from an 1875 issue of Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine. The colour plate show two Victorian ladies looking at paintings hung on the wall of what appears to be a very busy museum or art gallery.

You can download this vintage engraving for use in various altered art, graphic design, papercrafts, and scrapbooking projects or simply print and frame for wall art. You can find the free high-res 8" x 10" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Ladies at the Booksellers or Library, 1875

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

A fashion history illustration from an 1875 issue of Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine. The colour plate show two Victorian ladies browsing for books in a well-stocked bookshop or a lending library.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustrations for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Lady in a Knitted Hood, 1872

Every style is a means of insisting on something.
Susan Sontag

Two antique fashion history illustrations from an 1872 issue of Harper's Bazar. The two drawings show a Victorian lady with a knitted hood worn two ways; on the left, the hood is worn as a fichu (shawl), and on the right, the hood is worn as a head covering.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustrations for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Ladies in Fall Walking Costumes (Part 2), 1875

I love walking because it clears your mind, enriches the soul, takes away stress and opens up your eyes to a whole new world.
Claudette Dudley

Vintage fashion history illustrations featuring two Victorian ladies in walking dresses for fall. From an 1875 issue of Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine.

Download and use in various altered art, graphic design, papercrafts, scrapbooking or wall art projects. You can find the free high-res 13" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustrations for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Victorian Ladies in Fall Walking Costumes (Part 1), 1875

Take a walk outside ― it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.
Rasheed Ogunlaru

Vintage fashion history illustrations featuring two Victorian ladies in walking dresses for fall. From an 1875 issue of Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine.

Download and use in various altered art, graphic design, papercrafts, scrapbooking or wall art projects. You can find the free high-res 13" x 12" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration: Victorian Lady Feeling Like a Queen, 1875

You don't need a King to feel like a Queen!
Victorian Trends

An antique black and white illustration from 1875 that shows an elegant Victorian lady sitting on a tufted chair, wearing a very expensive looking day gown with various layers of bands, pleats, and flounces. Here is an example of a card I mde with this image:

You can download the free 6" x 9" @ 300 ppi JPEGs without any words or watermark here. Great for cardmaking, collage or image transfers, as well as graphic design or junk journaling projects.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration: Victorian Lady in Visiting Costume 1 (1875)

A black and white fashion engraving from my collection of Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine, December 1875 issue. Here is the description from the magazine:

Nos. 1 and 2 are illustrations showing the front and back of a visiting costume. The demi-train skirt is of olive-green faille, with the lower portion of the triple-plaited back-breadths trimmed with a deep half-plaited flounce, with a heading of small puffs and a stand-up ruffle, the sides and front-breadths being crossed with three gathered flounces -- the two first ones surmounted with rouleaux, and the third one with a succession of narrow folds. The long paletôt is of basket-woven plaid cloth of the same shade; the pointed fronts, trimmed with silk revers with velvet-faced corners, are confined by mold-covered buttons. The short back terminates under a bow and ends of wide sash ribbon, and the neck is decorated with a heart-shaped collar of silk, having a stand-up collar of velvet and velvet corners, from which depend two tassels. The sleeves are coat-shaped, with a deep flaring revers cuff of faille and velvet, and on each hip is a square-trimmed pocket. Three and a half yards of cloth, one yard of silk, a half a yard of velvet, and three yards of fringe will make this garment. Hat of olive-green velvet, trimmed with a silk scarf, a wing and flowers.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration: Victorian Ladies Setting the Table, 1875

A black and white fashion engraving from a fall 1875 edition of Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine. The following is a description from the publication:

"Nos. 1 and 2 are illustrations of the front and back of a dinner dress of rose-colored poult de soie. It consists of a train-skirt, trimmed with one deep scantily gathered flounce, edged with a knife-plaiting four and a half inches in depth, set on to form a heading. The overskirt is composed of clusters of upstanding folds, two in number, each cluster being strapped on either side with a fine shirred band, and are each connected behind on the train-breadths of the skirt by tied sashes of pink silk with fringed-out ends. These two clusters of folds are each edged with a fine knife-plaiting, giving the appearance of a double tablier. The corset is of the cuirass shape, trimmed with piped folds, and the neck is decorated with a fichu of plaited crêpe de Chine, edged with a fluting of the same. For the making of this dress thirty yards of poult de soie will be required."

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration: Victorian Hairdressing Styles by W.J. Barker, 1875

A page from Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine from 1875 showing the newest hairdressing styles (mostly consisting of elaborate braids) by W.J. Barker located at 36, Twenty-Ninth Street (four doors west of Broadway) in New York City.

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Free Printable Fashion History Illustration: Victorian Lady in Steampunk Style Hussar Jacket, 1897


Antique black and white fashion illustration from an October 1897 issue of The Delineator. The dressy top-garment here shown elegantly made of velvet and miroir moiré is an Eton jacket or coat fashionably known as the Hussar jacket. It is closely fitted by a center seam, underarm gores and single bust darts and is closed invisibly at the center of the front, where the lower edge is becomingly pointed. The fronts are elaborately trimmed with jet passementerie and the wrists of the coat sleeves are decorated to match. Over the coat sleeves, circular bell sleeves, box-plaited at the top, hang in large flutes and are trimmed with two knife-plaited ruffles of chiffon. Chiffon is also formed in a stylish ruche that is arranged about the flaring Medici collar and secured at the throat with ribbon ties. The felt braid hat is low-crowned and is trimmed with tips, a bird of Paradise aigrette and a silk rosette.

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