FSN 302 Lecture : 1900.docx
6 Feb 2014
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The period from the beginning of the century to the outbreak of wwi is usually spoken of enland as the edwardian era : although the king actually died in 1910. In france with a slight extension backwards into the middle of 1890s it was referred to as la belle. In both countries the atmosphere was very similar: age of great ostentation and extravagance. In england, society and the court now began to coincide and the king set the example. Everything larger than lifesize: an avalanche of balls and dinners and country house parties, more money was spent on clothes, more food was consumed, more horses raced, more infidelities were committed, more birds shot, more yachts commissioned . The skirt, smooth over the hips, flared out towards the ground in the shape of a bell. Passion for lace in every part of the gowns.
