When you get up in the morning do you ever think “Who shall I dress up as today?”
Lebrecht has been pondering this question for some time. Our favourite costume is that of a 1920s flapper, but we used to have a colleague who on leaving work would don an early Renaissance costume he had made himself – plus of course playing all the string instruments of that period!
Click on the link here or search under ‘fashion’ on the Lebrecht website to help you source authentic fashion images from ancient times through to the 21st century!
Fashion, Austria, 20th century. Amalie Wallemien: cloth suit with applied silk ornaments and taffeta vest, around 1908.
© De Agostini/Lebrecht Music & Arts
Fashion, France, 19th century. Women’s fashion plate from La Nouvelle Mode, 1899.
© De Agostini/Lebrecht Music & Arts
Fashion, 14th century. Embroidered scarf of Carolingian period.
© De Agostini/Lebrecht Music & Arts
