Original 1930s fashion drawing: three ladies and the fashions of 1939
In pen, ink and monochrome ink wash, the three ladies wearing the latest styles
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Printing Details
This is an original fashion sketch, perhaps for a leading magazine of the time, showing three ladies sporting the latest fashions of 1939. The paper measures approx. 38 × 41.5cm, and is in pen, ink, and monochrome ink wash (grisaille).
It dates to the late 1930s, probably 1939. The three ladies are standing in street landscape and wearing the sharp, padded, square shoulders and the nipped-in, corseted waists. The jackets feature military-inspired details with the woman on the right wears a striped jacket with frogging, a style that was very popular in 1939. The skirts show the more flared, slightly shorter of the late thirties as they moved away from the narrow column lines of the mid-30s. And the hats: the woman on the right wears a towering tilted doll hat or "postboy" hat adorned with a structured fabric bow. The central figure wears a small, forward-tilted calot, and the woman on the left wears a floral-topped tilt hat.
The artist is unknown.
Condition
This drawing is in very good condition, there are a few pinholes to the top edge, and some light creasing to the right hand side. Light overall tanning but remaining very good.
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£60.00
