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The Hobble Garter
Not content with the harness and trappings of various descriptions with which the fashionable woman must needs burden herself in these foolish fashion days, there has now made its appearance in the...
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Lucile by Lady Duff Gordon
“I loosed upon a startled London, a London of flannel underclothes, woollen stockings and voluminous petticoats, a cascade of chiffons, of draperies as lovely as those of Ancient Greece and drapes...
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The Morals of Pink and Blue Hair, or The Craze for Colored Wigs
from NYPL Digital Gallery The coiffures of Katy Perry, Agyness Deyn, and Rihanna, may spark some of today’s celeb and fashion-watchers to dye their hair various shades of blue, pink, and even gray, but...
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The 1911 National Insurance Act
While watching the second episode of Dr. Pamela Cox’s BBC documentary, Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs, I was struck by yet another instance of similarity between today and the Edwardian...
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They Said It With Music: Yankee Doodle To Ragtime
Newspaper article about the special in Norwalk, Connecticut’s The Hour, July 2, 1977 The post They Said It With Music: Yankee Doodle To Ragtime appeared first on Edwardian Promenade.
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Mourning in Edwardian and Post-War England
Mourning customs in Edwardian England toned down the excesses of the high Victorian period, and the toll of World War One hastened the decline of the elaborate parade of mourning. Nevertheless, most...
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Tango Teas and Tangocitis
Marquis and Miss Gladys Clayton demonstrating the tango at The Savoy, 1913 London society of 1913-1914 was tango mad. The dance made its way across the Channel from Paris, where it had become a vogue...
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The one thing I really, really adore about the Edwardian era is that it is the age of the automobile. It’s only fairly recently that I discovered a car museum in my neck of the woods, and I jumped at...
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The Cave of the Golden Calf: The Real Delphine’s
Mr. Selfridge takes license with the life and times of the real Harry Gordon Selfridge, but there actually were nightclubs in Edwardian London! We can thank ragtime and the tango for that, as well as...
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The Russian Influence on Edwardian Society
The art and style of about 1908-1914 matched the frenetic pace towards the modernism the First World War brought to fruition. This period–characterized by the Ballet Russes (under the design of Léon...
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U.S. Interventionism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Hi! My name is Lydia San Andres and I write historical romance set in 1911, in a fictional island in the Spanish Caribbean. Why a fictional island? Well… As you probably know if you’ve been reading...
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