Fashion Designers of Their Time

Fashion Designers of Their Time

1850 - 1930s: Victorian to Depression Era Fashions

This website showcases 85 fashion designers for late 19th and early 20th centuries womenswear, menswear, childrenwear, milliners, and hairstyles. On site, 479 images are shown for these designers from the Victorian to Depression eras.

Please look through our Table of Contents below. Click on a fashion designer's name to see their table of contents and thumbnails images of their creations. To VIEW the image enlargements in this section, you must have a subscription from The Costume Gallery Library. To purchase a subscription, please click HERE.

Some of these descriptions may have English and French translations. Some designers have a brief biography and/or career highlighs are available this symbol (B) under their name. Articles/descriptions may have in translations French and English.

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About, Valentine: 1923
(3 images)

Agnes: 1916-1922
(9 images) (B)

Alice & Renée: 1922-1923
(4 images)

Anna: 1922
(1 image)

Arnold: 1922
(2 images)

Augustine & Andrée: 1921-1923
(10 images)

Beer, Gustav: 1905-1929
(17 images) (B)

Bernard, Alice: 1916-1922
(3 images)

Bister, Jules: 1896
(2 images) (B)

Blanchot, Jane: 1921-1925
(32 images)

Bossi, Emilia: 1896
(3 images) (B)

Boudreux, Henriette: 1922
(1 image)

Bretagne, Juliette: 1923
(1 image)

Bulloz, Pierre: 1916
(3 images) (B)

Capedieu: 1922
(1 image)

Caret, Paul: 1922
(2 images)

Charlotte: 1922-23
(5 images)

Charlys, House of:
1923 (1 image)

Cheruit, Madeleine: 1906-1939
(5 images) (B)

Crozet, Marie: 1922-1923
(18 images)

Cyber: 1922
(1 image)

DesBois, Berthe: 1923 (5 images)

Debenham & Freebody: 1896
(2 images)

Doeuillet, Georges: 1900-1937
(12 images) (B)

Donguy: 1922
(1 image)

Doucet, Jacque: 1873-1929
(9 images) (B)

House of Drecoll: 1896-1963
(8 images) (B)

House of Dumay: 1916
(2 images)

Emile, Hair Designs: 1920
(2 images)

Fairyland: 1922
(1 image)

Felix, E.: 1896
(4 images) (B)

Flaviis, House de: 1923
(1 image)

Floch, Charlotte: 1922
(1 image)

Flora, House of: 1923
(3 images)

Gaspari, Rosa e Torta de: 1896
(2 images) (B)

Germaine: 1921-1923
(16 images)

George Henry Lee & Co.: 1896
(2 images) (B)

Georgette: 1916
(4 images)

Lady Duff Gordon aka Lucile: 1922
(1 image)

Groult, Nicole: 1922-1923
(5 images)

Guy, Maria: 1923
(2 images)

Hallee, Jeanne: 1922
(1 image)

Hamar, Lucie: 1923
(3 images)

Henry & Tallet: 1922
(2 images)

Hirsch & Cie: 1869-1896
(2 images) (B)

Izambard, A.: 1896
(3 images) (B)

Jenny, House of (Jeanne Adele Bernard): 1916-1923 (9 images)

Jose, House of / Chez: 1923
(3 images)

Klein, Charles: 1916
(6 images)

Kriegck: 1922
(3 images)

Lanvin, Jeanne: 1889-present day
(31 images) (B)

Larsen: 1922
(3 images)

Lelong, Lucien: 1922
(1 images) (B)

Lewis: 1907-1923
(32 images)

Lucile aka Lady Duff Gordon: 1922
(1 image)

Lucy: 1922
(1 image)

Madeleine et Madeleine: 1922-1923
(3 images)

Manning, Alfred: 1830s-1896
(3 images) (B)

Marson, Cora: 1923
(3 images)

Martial & Armand: 1916-1923
(16 images)

Miler Soeurs / Sisters: 1922
(1 image)

Maison E Minangoy: 1850-1896
(2 images) (B)

Molyneux, Edward: 1922-1923
(17 images) (B)

Monge: 1922-1923
(4 images)

Monnier, Jeanne Le: 1922-1923
(30 images) (B)

Nanteuil: 1922
(1 image)

Orange: 1922
(1 image)

Paquin, Jeanne: 1891-1956
(11 images) (B)

Paquin, Joseph: 1922
(1 image)

Patou, Jean (16 images) (B)

Perrier: 1922
(1 image)

Poiret, Paul: 1913-1923
(11 images)

Premet: 1911-1931
(4 images) (B)

Redfern, John: 1860-1920s
(1 image) (B)

Rodier: 1920-1923:
(4 images)

Roger, Camille: 1923
(6 images)

Rolande: 1922
(1 image)

Rolf: 1922
(2 images)

Simpson, Hunter, & Young: 1896
(3 images)

Soulie (9 images)

Talbot, Suzanne: 1923
(1 image)

Tollmann: 1923-1925
(4 images)

Ullmann & Strauss (4 images)

Vogels, M.A. 1830s-1896
(2 images)

Worth, Charles Fredick & Sons 1853-1953
(13 images) (B)

Yerles, Marthe: 1923
(1 image)

Website Bibliographical Information:

"Coming Styles Designed by the Great Costumers of Europe." The Denver Dry Goods, Co. Catalog, Rand, McNally & Co.: Chicago, Ill. Fall and Winter Edition, 1896.
Delineator Magazine, Vol. XCVII, No. 6, Nov. 1920, pp. 113-115.
"Illustrations of Model Gowns, Harry Angelo Company," New York & Paris, Spring 1916.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 28, No. 31, Aug. 3, 1907.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 28, No. 40, Oct. 5, 1907.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 42, No. 14, April 2, 1921.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 42, No. 37, Sept. 10, 1921.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 43, No. 27, July 8, 1922.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 43, No. 50, Dec. 16, 1922.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 43, No. 52, Dec. 30, 1922.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 44, No. 1, Jan. 6, 1923.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 44, No. 4, Jan. 27, 1923.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 44, No. 7, Feb. 17, 1923.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 44, No. 9, March 3, 1923.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 44, No. 11, March 17, 1923.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 44, No. 13, March 31, 1923.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 44, No. 15, April 14, 1923.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 44, No. 16, April 21, 1923.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 44, No. 17, April 28, 1923.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 44, No. 22, June 2, 1923.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 45, No. 34, Aug. 23, 1924.
L'Art et la Mode, Year 46, No. 30, July 25, 1925.
La Gazette du Bon Ton, April 1913, Mar., Apr., May, June, July 1920, 1922.
Marshall Field & Co.: Illustrated Catalogue: Jewelry & Fashions. Chicago, Illinois, 1896.
"Paris Makes To-day the Things the Parisienne will Wear To-morrow." Delineator, Vol. XCIX, No. 2, Sept. 1921, pp. 62 - 63.

William & Wiener. "The Paris Models," Paris and New York City, Spring 1922.

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