| AMERICAN FASHION Various shots illustrating ladies' fashions in America at the Turn of the Century. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5002 |
| Catalog #: | 364534 | |
| Clip Number: | 364534-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 1 A (G) | |
| Timecode: | 01:30:14 - 01:32:06 | |
| Location: | USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1900 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FASHION: Day Dress FASHION: Formal / Evening Wear FASHION: Lingerie, Underwear FASHION: Women's LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA | |
| Description: | Same as catalog #364523 AMERICAN FASHION Various shots illustrating ladies' fashions in America at the Turn of the Century. Various scenes of ladies' fashions from the first years of the century; evidently compiled years later and interspersed with title cards laughing about the olden days. (The title cards flash by very quickly; they have been cut down to even as little as 1 frame.) Opens with people strolling on street; past wrought-iron fence. Women bundled up in many yards of fabric. Ladies in loosely flowing Oriental-type gowns (floor length, with knee-length jackets of similar fabric worn over them); next to potted palms. Model moves slowly across stage; wearing what looks like a short frock with many ruffles over a floor length satin slip--looks a bit like an over-aged pudgy Little Bo Peep. Woman wearing tight corset turns slowly while holding the strings out to the sides, displaying her narrow waist. Stage scene of overdressed chorus girls - their dancing accompanies first a man dancing alone then twirling a woman around, | |
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