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
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