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[Women modeling clothing] – Historic Reproduction

[Women modeling clothing], 1918 Mar. 22. — historic photograph
[Women modeling clothing], 1918 Mar. 22.. Historic photograph from the Family Life collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Women modeling clothing] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This March 1918 view of women modeling clothing was made in the last months of the First World War, when fashion coverage in American newspapers and magazines often reflected wartime conditions. Bain News Service, the New York agency whose founder, George Grantham Bain, built a large store of news photographs, supplied images like this to newspapers across the country. Its caption card lists only "Fashion," so the specific garments and designers are not recorded. Wartime shortages of cloth and labor pushed many American styles toward simpler lines and less material, a shift worth keeping in mind when looking at the outfits.

Created / published1918 Mar. 22.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fashion.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,156 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149248

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