Female 1912 fashion ?
 

Right I need some help, i need to find a outfit for the 7th Sept but and this is why im struggling it needs to be in 1912 fashion! Im struggling to find descent pictures to get ideas from. So can you help??

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Type in ladies fashion 1912 to google and look at images.

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Just been trying that and all its showing me is fancy Titanic clothing, I want a female teachers outfit. I dont think they dressed as fancy lol

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This is a brilliant site, I should start with the drawings on this page and go from there.

Costume Silhouettes Free Line Drawings 1910-1913

1912 was an interesting era when clothes were starting to break away from the restrictions of the Edwardian corset and move to something looser and easier which eventually ended up in the twenties free for all flapper era.

My favourite designer of this period is Paul Poiret, who really rewrote the rules.

Paul Poiret
Paul Poiret - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Good luck!

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Thought you might have wanted something for an evening do...

Type in Edwardian teacher to Google images, lots of pics there.

All you need is a long skirt, high collar blouse tucked in with belt, and a tie.

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This is my grandmother on her wedding day at the turn of the century.
She wasn't a teacher but her dad was.

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Thank you all, Got some great ideas now. xx

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Reckon you are not far out there, Sue.

This is a 'photo of my uncle at school in 1908 ... ok, few years earlier, but wouldn't have moved on that much. Love the collar/tie the teacher on the right has (well, not really):

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The boys' outfits craic me up ... my uncle is the one holding the reins of the horse.... lol.

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P.M. Kate, she may lend yeh one.:hidewall::hidewall::hidewall:

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Susie's right.

Female clothing, for someone such as a schoolmistress, is gradually becoming less structured by the pre-war years, though the overall look is still chaste, and drab in colour.

You'd probably still be wearing button-through boots, and ankles would still best be covered, if you want to keep your job.

;):D

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Which ones you Walter:)

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You got a death wish, Cashy ....:knife:

Actually, surprised I don't have a blouse similar .. have worn that sort of outfit in one or two productions ... must have been hired.

Love to see a 'photo, Mumtotwo once you have sorted it.

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A couple of old family photos from around that time: My Gt grandfather/mother and first 2 children.

Then one of my Gt-Gt Uncle William taken in 1913 -the women have nice outfits and I love the men in boater hats!

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The hairdo helps as well if you can manage it.

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Didn't they call it a cottage loaf ? ....:D

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The very same Kate, couldn't think of the name!

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That style was back in fashion in 1961 - was a variation of the 'bee hive'.
I actually had my hair done that way for my first wedding.
It was easy to keep a tiara on between the two layers.

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Yes, I was bridesmaid twice around that time and had that style, with the headdress round the gap in the middle. Only difference between then and 1912 was that in the early 60s my hair was fairly short so the fullness was achieved by backcombing rather than piling long hair up.

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I can remember watching my mum back-combing her hair in the mirror when I was a little girl and then using loads of hairspray. She had a red wig for going out too and a turquoise sparkly trouser-suit (sequinned -very Cilla Black!):D

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A larra larra laughs:D

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Even more so when she was getting the wig ready to use she used to brush it and back-comb that to -at times it looked like Ken Dodd's hairdo!:p

(I hope she doesn't read any of this or I'll be getting into trouble)

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Think Rose on her day off, for a prim, neat hair style.

The year Lady Marjorie went down on the Titanic.

Not later, when she became a bit flapperish, and had a bobbed Eton crop.

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Was Thinking Upstairs Downstairs or Downton Abbey or Mary Poppins