The American girl
The American girl is a 1906 illustrated book by Howard Chandler Christy, published in New York by Moffat, Yard and Company, presenting images of young women in the United States. The pictures are pen and wash style figure studies of fashionable women in period dress, one seated with a sporting stick, one in a red riding jacket and long dark skirt holding a club, and one in a gilded floral border beside a man in a doorway. A designer might take from them the early twentieth-century silhouette of high collars, cinched waists and full skirts, and the decorative Art Nouveau frame with its rose-and-vine border.
