Fashion and Textile Museum - Liberty Exhibition

After obsessing about Liberty over the winter, I finally visited the FTM Liberty in Fashion exhibition in January, and took a lot of photos of luscious clothing after the jump.

Better late than never....

Polyester Poiret

This dress is pretty cheap and nasty fabric-wise, but I couldn't get the kimono sleeves and the resemblance to Paul Poiret's designs out of my head.

I really used to hate the inverted triangle shapes from the 1910s, but now I've grown to really like them (in photos and drawings, even if I don't have the ass for them). The history of the era is also so interesting, with huge changes in art and fashion from the Edwardian age. The trends for everything artistic, fauvist, oriental, and the fact that they didn't know it but they were dancing on the edge on WW1...

"Soon, as Paul Morand cruelly pointed out, this Belle Epoque was no more than 'a submerged continent with only the crowns of its top hats still remaining visible." Parisian Fashions - La Gazette du Bon Ton

The Thin Man (1934) - Pre-code wisecracks, hangovers, slinky dresses and fur

 The Thin Man is an old favourite film of mine, partly for the hilarious dialogue and warm joshing between Myrna Loy and Charles Powell and partly for the impossible 30s glamour of the costumes, which are by Dolly Tree, a British designer. As well as clothing, she was good at illustration and career advice.

If you like fur, elaborate sleeves, velvet, bias cuts, perky hats and want to know how to look good with an ice pack on your head, you're in for a treat... screen shots of my favourite outfits after the jump.