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[Women's fashions: aero gown, 1910] – Historic Reproduction

[Women's fashions: aero gown, 1910], [1910] — historic photograph
[Women's fashions: aero gown, 1910], [1910]. Historic photograph from the Ballooning 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Women's fashions: aero gown, 1910] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Women's fashions: aero gown, 1910]

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Few pictures on this board pair aviation with fashion quite like this one, which is titled an aero gown and dated 1910. The caption card links it to Paul Poiret, the Paris couturier known for loose, dramatic silhouettes. In 1910 flight was headline news, with airplanes newly in the air and crowds gathering for exhibitions, and designers borrowed the excitement of aviation for their clothing. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a New York news service archive that shows how such trends reached American readers.

Created / published[1910]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: PI--Works; Aviation; Fashions; Shelf. Poiret, Paul.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,128 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132631

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