18.00 USD
The printer of this card, Rembrandt-Gravure, or the Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Company, began as a maker of sails and printed calico cloth in Lancaster, England, but then, in the very early 1900s, started doing fine art prints, and were quite successful up until about WWI.
This wonderful image is of a young woman wearing the sort of turban we usually see in photographs from right around 1911, when Paul Poiret introduced la Jupe-Culotte, and la Robe Pantalon. These were long pants, or in the case of la Jupe-Culotte, a divided skirt, usually covered by a kind of robe, or coat, that opened to afford a bit of leg movement, though the effect, from images we've seen, was to show only a hint of the pant leg, and sometimes the pant legs were even bound at the calves by a loose strap of sorts. It was a very attractive, symmetrical, style, though we can't think it would have been all that comfortable. The style is very similar to certain pant suits worn by women in Asia for a long long time before its appearance in Europe, in Viet Nam, for example, which was, at the time, French-colonial Indochine, and we suspect Monsieur Poiret was influenced by these classic Asian fashions. Topped with these turbans, and their long straight plumes, the effect was one of an elongated diamond shape, narrowing from the hips, to a point at the head, and at the feet. Really elegant.
Below is a link to a listing for a card we sold last year, which offers an example of the style:
https://www.etsy.com/transaction/124041546
As these turbans go, this has to be the most dramatic, and beautiful of them we've ever seen.
A truly lovely image. Very nice condition that, though printed in England, bears a message written in French, on the reverse side.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.
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