Video: Dresses that turned out to be too revealing even for Parisian fashionistas
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The audience, which gathered for the races at the Longchamp hippodrome in Paris in 1908, was shocked by the outfits of the three ladies present. Previously, the Parisians not only did not see this, they could not even imagine such "indecent". On the same day, newspapers accused three ladies dressed in blue, white and brown dresses of showing up to the races almost half-naked, and called their outfits ugly. But it was these three dresses that radically changed the fashion of the twentieth century. True, the creator of these dresses was forgotten.
Jeanne Margain-Lacroix, a young Parisian dressmaker who continued her mother's work, sewed dresses from elastic fabric that fit the figure like a glove on a hand. Long before lycra or spunx appeared, Margain-Lacroix began making dresses made from stretch knit or stretch silk. They hugged the hips and waist and emphasized the female figure.
For a public debut in 1908, she hired three beautiful models and chose the Parisian Hippodrome for their fashion show. The audience was shocked. After all, it was obvious that the ladies under their dresses did not have corsets, skirts and shirts accepted at that time.
For the first time in fashion history, women showed natural curves rather than corsets. In addition, the skirts had deep cuts to the knee, and everyone could see the legs of the brave ladies. … The French weekly L'Illustration reported that respectable Parisians, seeing these girls, took their husbands and sons away from the racetrack.
The newspaper itself called the boldly dressed women "Les Nouvelles Meirveilleuses". A term borrowed from a fashionable but short-lived aristocratic subculture that emerged in Paris during the last years of the French Revolution. We can say that these were some kind of counter-revolutionaries.
These "wonderful women" or "fairy divas" shocked Paris with dresses and tunics modeled after the dress of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Moreover, they were often made of enlightening fabric and gauze. For a short period, young aristocrats who survived the revolutionary "terror" (these people were known as "Les incroyables") confronted the new regime with defiant luxury and bold decadence in their dress, as well as foolish mannerisms. Alas, their open sexuality appeared too early, but at the dawn of the twentieth century it was perceived as an "amazing renaissance".
These were the dresses of Margain-Lacroix, which appeared 100 years later at the Longchamp racetrack in 1908, and made a real revolution in fashion. Perhaps every young fashionista dreamed about these dresses. But the name of the fashion designer has sunk into oblivion. It was rumored that this happened because of an incident in London.
Allegedly, the cabman who was driving Winston Churchill, who at that time was the Minister of the Interior, was so staring at the girl in a tight dress that he collided with another carriage. After that, the name Margain-Lacroix disappeared from the press forever and the young talented dressmaker was actually deleted from the history of fashion.
How many sacrifices people make for the sake of fashion. There is a known case when the woman "pulled" her waist up to 33 cm at the whim of her husband.
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