Au progrès, la chaux-de-fonds : [1918-1919]

1918 · 9 pictures

Au progrès is a Swiss catalogue of women's clothing from La Chaux-de-Fonds, dated 1918 to 1919, presumably issued by the department store to sell coats and suits to local customers. The pictures show rows of long belted coats and tailored suits on fashion-plate figures in cloche and wide-brimmed hats, with flat line drawings of each garment's back and front beneath them. A designer could take the strict column of figures, the wide shawl collars and the tight belts as a model for period silhouettes and the rigid poses of the era.

Coats -- Switzerland · Suits (Clothing) -- Switzerland · Women's clothing -- Switzerland

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