26 Aug 2010

The snail bustle....


First: What is bustle?
It is a tournuere: the bagside of a dress like the one you see above


Caricature of Bustle as snail, 1870
Punch Or The London Charivarl
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2 comments:

  1. I love Mrs Snail so very properly dressed out for a promenade.

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  2. Those old images...hard to find, but so great!!

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