[ Photographs ] (Fashion) France Amusing group of 42 skillful fashion studies by Meurisse of French haute couture during one of its grandest and most stunning periods, Just preceding World War I, and documenting ladies and gentlemen flaunting their

[ Photographs ] (Fashion) France Amusing group of 42 skillful fashion studies by Meurisse of French haute couture during one of its grandest and most stunning periods, Just preceding World War I, and documenting ladies and gentlemen flaunting their ornate finery, fanciful chapeaux, embroideries, furs and muffs, sumptuous fabrics, jupes culottes (!), and often astounding ensembles at such fashionable spots as Longchamps and Auteuil. Silver prints, 6.5 x 4. 75 inches, each numbered in the negative, all but one with Meurisse's Faubourg handstamp, 21 with extended mimeographed captions, and 4 numbered, in a penciled period hand, on verso. 1910-15