Oh fantastic. While it was clear these outfits are not the standard for the time, it’s cool learning they had a female creator! Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix’s work wouldn’t look too out of place on a modern runway (excepting they were probably much better made than modern couture…)
omg! READ the article! read it! this is glorious! also thank you @dollsahoy for finding the source and sharing the credit.
“It was these three dresses however, which would forever change fashion that day and launch the twentieth century silhouette….
…Long before Lycra or Spanx came along, she soon began making dresses made from stretchy elastic silk jersey, outlining the hips and thighs and slimming the figure. To debut her creations to society, she hired three beautiful models and chose the Parisian racetracks of 1908 as her catwalk.”
