Assistance appreciated... Germaine LeComte Scarf

Well, now I'm super confused about pricing. Date is late 30s, you think? Kind of a commemorative to Gone with the Wind maybe?
 
bycinbyhand said:
omg!!!! What year is this approx? Wow. How did you find this?!!
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I couldn't tell when it was, from a quick glance the writer's memoirs seemed to be covering 30s to 60s, but if you read more you might be able to pin it down.

I found it by googling: "Henriette de costier" scarf

Using quotes often helps narrow down a search, and adding scarf brought up that blog near the top.

Great that you found a photo of the clayburghs!

So happy to have helped!
 
Leonardo da Vintage said:
I couldn't tell when it was, from a quick glance the writer's memoirs seemed to be covering 30s to 60s, but if you read more you might be able to pin it down.

I found it by googling: "Henriette de costier" scarf

Using quotes often helps narrow down a search, and adding scarf brought up that blog near the top.

Great that you found a photo of the clayburghs!

So happy to have helped!
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that you so so much. Now I' m wondering about price. I've never seen anything like. You?
 
The lady in the crinoline looks more La Traviata than Scarlett. I think they're just historically based gowns. The Tudor outfit is highly inaccurate, but seems to be inspired by the English Renaissance.
 
Circa Vintage said:
The lady in the crinoline looks more La Traviata than Scarlett. I think they're just historically based gowns. The Tudor outfit is highly inaccurate, but seems to be inspired by the English Renaissance.
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I guess they can't help point me in a direction as to... you know, a commemorative theme? I'm trying to link the info so far in that direction but maybe there's no enough info present to do so. Thanks!
 
As mentioned earlier on this thread, the theme which I see is 3 centuries of fashion. The artists has chosen fantasy costumes from the 16oos, 1700s, and 1800s. I am not sure that there is a connecting theme, other than perhaps Ms. Lecomte did costumes similar, but surface research does not turn up any films on which she worked which took place in these time periods. It is also possible that it ties in somehow to the 1947 Cannes Film Festival in which she was involved. Sort of a tribute to costumes in film, with her name chosen as a well known (in France) costume designer.

The artwork looks VERY 1940s to me.

It is a really unusual find!
 
Rue_de_la_Paix said:
As mentioned earlier on this thread, the theme which I see is 3 centuries of fashion. The artists has chosen fantasy costumes from the 16oos, 1700s, and 1800s. I am not sure that there is a connecting theme, other than perhaps Ms. Lecomte did costumes similar, but surface research does not turn up any films on which she worked which took place in these time periods. It is also possible that it ties in somehow to the 1947 Cannes Film Festival in which she was involved. Sort of a tribute to costumes in film, with her name chosen as a well known (in France) costume designer.

The artwork looks VERY 1940s to me.

It is a really unusual find!
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I thought 40s originally then got waylaid with the research that just blossomed. Pretty fun project, huh?

I will try to find her films, if possible, and keep digging. : ))
 
Just a small aside... I was looking through an issue of L'Art et la Mode from spring 1948, searching for something else, and found two Lecomte designs shown in it... very romantic and definitely borrowing a bit from historical styles.
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The one on the left...
 
Midge said:
Just a small aside... I was looking through an issue of L'Art et la Mode from spring 1948, searching for something else, and found two Lecomte designs shown in it... very romantic and definitely borrowing a bit from historical styles.
View attachment 72338 View attachment 72337 The one on the left...
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yes!! I see it too!! How wonderful!!

Aren't the designs then so fab!??!
 
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