1930s Fashion

1930S Black Silk Satin Pajama Lounge Pants With Amazing Embroidered Parrots

1930S Navy Blue Wool Men's French Fisherman's Suspender Vest

1930S Beige Bias Cut Silk Charmeuse Tap Short Knickers With Exceptional Chantilly Lace

Very Rare! sold as-is 1930S Blush Pink Silk Crepe De Chine Short Sleeved Blouse With Couture Hand Detailing

1930S Navy Blue Wool Gabardine Men's Pants From Warner Bros Costumes

1930S Jade Green Hand Embroidered Silk Satin Jacket With Red & Pink Flowers

1930S Navy Blue Bias Cut Cotton Swiss Dot Organdy Puff Sleeve Dress With Rayon Slip

30s sienna brown peep toe heels. Geometric cutouts on toe tops. Leather soles. Measurements: Insole: 9.5 inches Palm: 2 7/8 inches Heel: 3 inches

Some areas show signs of age 1930S Grey & White Embroidered Stripe Wool French Theatrical Jacket Knickers Suit

in good antique condition with some hand done repairs. 1930S Baby Blue Cotton Slub Men's Pullover Shirt From France

1930S Black Sheer Rayon & Silk Knit Dress

1930S Cream Cotton Jersey Rare Men's Long Underwear Pants

- Beautiful embroidered Chinese Eyeglasses case. - From the late 19th century (Qing/Ch'ing Dinasty) - Red Hand-dieyd Silk with lovely beaded embroidery on both sides - These charm...

1930S White Rayon Knit Crisscross Ruffle Trim Blouse

1930S Black Silk Chiffon Tie Waist Dress With Lace Inset Sleeves

1930s polka-dot sports/golf hat featuring shades of green, gold, and yellow dots woven into a coated canvas. The hat is finished with a tied bow centered on ...

1930S Rayon Crepe Gold Sequined Short Sleeve Zipper Front Dinner Jacket

1930S Cream Hand Crochet Cotton Cardigan Shrug Top

1930's flower printed crêpe jacket with pale pink satin collar. No lining SIZE 42 (L)

1930S Black & Aqua Trim Silk/Rayon Velvet Robe

Late 1930's to early 1940's red coated woven straw perch hat decorated with a black mesh band, handcrafted fruit and a feathered sculpted bird.

1930S Tomato Red Rayon Crepe Asian Styled Lounge Pajamas

1930s Fantasy Printed top. Black Rayon top with green, red, and blue fantasy print and sequin along the shoulders. A single snap closure at the bottom of the neckline.

Circa 1930 England A collectible Jumpsuit Amazon short pants and skirt in twill gabardine with black wool from the designer house Robert & Carroll in London and dated 1930. Short pan...

Circa 1930/1940 France Evening bolero in iridescent velvet with a peach skin effect dating from the 1930s / 1940s, in the same style as Jeanne Lanvin...

Champs "Salesman Sample" "Gift Certificate" Top Hat in Original Box . Black plastic hat sample that was given to a customer as a gift certificate to w...

Black sequin maxi dress. Unlined. V-neck. Side Zipper. Silk. Marked 'Irving Detroit'. *Condition: excellent vintage condition. No visible flaws. Measurem...

1930S Blue Hand Woven Rayon Blend With Real Silver Threads Kaftan Vest

"In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous" Elsa Schiaparelli,1930's. "Life has changed so much, A Schiaparelli was never made for the streets." Karl Lagerfeld, 1970's. 2 quotes,2 designers, 4 decades apart. 4 decades later. Although these quotes are highly debatable, especially in the context of today's high-low designer collabs and pop up retailing, iconic fashion endures. Whether now relegated to a museum exhibition, a collector's acid free box or a celebrity one nighter, these fashion artifacts from the french Haute Couture of the 1930's echo a time, pace and culture unrecognizable to most people today. Schiaparelli changed the definition of what it meant to be a designer at an important time in the evolution of the Haute Couture. Rather than simply making beautifully elegant garments (which she also did), she focused on the concepts behind the pieces. For her fashion was a fluid medium and she effortlessly blended fashion, politics and the fine arts. She was one of the most innovative and rebellious designers of the period working against what she considered the stale fashion currents of the day. She was elegant yet untrained. As a protege of Poiret, she gained entry into the world of Parisian fashion. While her rival Chanel was essentially uneducated and a “primitive” in the artistic circles in which she socialized, Schiaparelli’s impeccable social credentials as the daughter of an old and distinguished Roman family gave her a relatively easy entree into Paris society. She was a subversive, a punk, a desecrator, a collaborator, an innovator as well as the ultimate insider whose plans on design domination and creating "la zone rose" for the modern world were cut short by the advent of WWII. She was at the height of her influence and power showing 4 iconic collections in the last years of the decade. Fascinating to consider what the House of Schiaparelli could have brought forth in the following decades had the world not been swept away in turmoil at that moment. In the context of her short prewar career, few remaining masterworks have survived. The rare "moment" she created in the 30's lives on within each art piece, safelocked away within each stitch and sequin. Each design retains her spirit and legacy as a free thinking, modernist rebel who used the avantegarde as her platform in the most creative period of fashion design in the 20th Century. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rare and Important Elsa Schiaparelli Haute Couture...