published in Paris
This fashion plate is from La Nouvelle Mode, a weekly fashion journal published in Paris. Dated 1910, the plate is one in a collection of plates from the journal, compiled in a book entitled 'Book of Fashion Plates from La Nouvelle Mode: Fashions 1908-1911'.
The plate is numbered 31. Its French title translates as 'For future fine days'.
By 1910, skirts were straight and ankle-length, imitating styles of one hundred years before. The 'Directoire' line, as it was known in France, was named after the French government of the 1790s.
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