MODELLO 4522 VESTITO DA SERA DI MADELEINE VIONNET ATELIER LUCIENNE ESTATE 1938   Mussolina rosa tagliata in sbieco, corpetto in pizzo marrone tagliato a cerchio che forma volant sulle spalle.

MODEL 4522 EVENING DRESS BY MADELEINE VIONNET ATELIER LUCIENNE SUMMER 1938   Pink muslin cut on the bias, bodice in brown lace cut in circles which form a frill on the shoulders.

  Bobby sox idol and, at the time still a family man, FRANK SINATRA poses with wife Nancy.

      Whereas lace and embroidery had been the expression of the aristocratic decline, sober lines and plain colors, lightly accented with the carefree “rigatini” or striped cotton material, was the banner of the new military and bourgeois spirit of Napoleon’s era. Thus the pale but variegated palette of …

  Mentre i merletti e ricami erano stati l’espressione dell’aristocrazia al tramonto, le linee sobrie e le tinte unite, appena corrette dalla scanzonatura dei “rigatini”, furono la bandiera del nuovo spirito militare e borghese dell’età di Napoleone. La tenue ma variegata tavolozza del Settecento venne così sostituita dalla prevalenza dei …