CLARENCE COLES PHILLIPS

2012-08-23 01:43

From blog Artfully Awear

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CLARENCE COLES PHILLIPS

Last weekend was one of my favorite events of the year: the Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island in NYC. I wore a modern rendition of what a 1920s lady might wear to a daytime fête , and here is a look at my inspiration. To get some ideas, I perused 1920s fashion plates, and came across the work of Clarence Coles Phillips (1880-1927). Phillips was an American illustrator, well-known for his watercolor images used in popular magazines such as Life and Good Housekeeping throughout the 1910s and early 1920s. One of the most interesting aspects of his work is how the figure often disappears into the...

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