Pinterest is a wonderful thing. When I'm not pinning style inspiration, crafting ideas, knitting patterns, or hypothetical wedding plans, I use it to collect old photos that I just love. Particularly from the Edwardian era. Whilst you get the wonderful portraits from that time, they're usually very formal, a bit stiff, and don't often capture the everyday. How people really wore their hats, how the number of petticoats you wore affected your skirt when you walked, how people interacted with one another. The kind of photographs where you can just picture it in a modern day setting, because really, real life is the same as it was a hundred years ago.
Those are the details that I fall in love with.
So I thought I'd share a few of my favourite Edwardian photos with you, that capture the little elements of real life.
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| "At the beach." |
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| Helen du Bois plays handball // Paris, 4th June 1906 |
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| Autochrome // John B. Trevor |
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| "Kiss" c.1900 |
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| Place du Louvres // Paris, 4th June, 1906 |
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| Caroline Trevor // John B. Trevor, 1916 |
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| Caroline Trevor // John B. Trevor, 1916 |
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| 1900 |
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| A class visiting the Art Gallery // Frances Benjamin Johnston, c. 1899 |
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| c. 1905-1910 |
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| Draping blouses in Worth // Paris, 1907 |
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| "A couple strolling." Colourised photograph, c. 1910 |
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| Notting Hill Gate // July 1906 |
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| London Street Style // 1905-1908 |
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| Kensington // June 1906 |
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| Ludo Vanden Haute, Fenêtre // c.1910 |
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| London, Cromwell Road // Edward Linley Sambourne, 12th July 1905 |
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| "The Courting Gang" c. 1900 |
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