Free Printable Fashion History Illustration for Altered Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Three Widows, 1892

It has been said, "time heals all wounds." I do not agree.
The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity,
covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
A vintage fashion history illustration from 1892 showing three Victorian widows dressed in all-black dresses. The young lady in the middle is holding a wreath, perhaps to lay as tribute on a grave? Scanned from my personal collection of antique magazines.

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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 Mixed-Media Collage, Journaling, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Portrait of a Victorian Lady in Evening Head-Dress of Wild Roses and Berries

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride
and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.
― Shannon L. Alder
A vintage fashion illustration from November 9, 1872 showing a Victorian lady wearing an evening head-dress. This head-dress consists of a spray of wild roses and berries, with a long drooping vine and a coloured ostrich feather drooping over the front waved hair. Original engraving is from my personal collection of antique Harper's Bazar magazines.

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