Shopping - Drawing. Public domain image.
Summary
Until the 1870s women were not allowed to go out without a male escort, but then the cramped, unsafe lanes and alleys of Paris were replaced by broad, illuminated and hence ‘safe’ boulevards, lined with a plethora of shops. The age of ‘shopping’ – and window shopping – was born. Fashion illustrators tapped into this new phenomenon in their work. Women in walking dresses were represented admiring, trying on and
also purchasing items in the new ‘department stores’.
Tags
prints
costume and fashion prints
paper
engraving
a bodin
high resolution
costume design drawings
fashion
printed advertisement
music
performing arts
rijksmuseum
Date
1872
Source
Rijksmuseum
Link
Copyright info
Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")