Very cleverly made, the lorgnette can easily be folded up to form a pendant monocle. This Victorian lorgnette was made in Austria around the turn of the Twentieth Century.

This includes antique fans, reticules, purses, gloves and I even have a few pairs of antique glasses, so when the theme was announced, I thought these might be a pleasantly different and unusual choice. I love to collect vintage and antique accessories. A few weeks ago, for the “Looking Close on Friday” theme of “feathers”, I posted a photograph of one of my antique fans. The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 10th of July is “eyeglasses”, but the photo had to show the glasses without someone wearing them. Glove : Belle Epoque / Belle Epoque Rubble set Mesh body : Maitreya / Maitreya Mesh Body – LaraĬrown : Silvery K / *.Silvery K.:*Halo crown(FatPack) Left-Dress : toksik / toksik – Descent Dress (Crimson) Right-Hair : monso / Mabel Hair /Black & Order (~2021.02.20) *.Silvery K.:*Luxury Leather Suit (NeckBelt)FatPack *.Silvery K.:*Luxury Leather Suit (Skirt )FatPack royalty), nonessential gloves soon followed nonessential hats into the dustbin of history.*.Silvery K.:*Luxury Leather Suit (Jacket)FatPack Apart from a few notable exceptions (i.e. With the fashion revolution gathering speed, attempts at gentility were increasingly scorned. “Train your daughter to wear gloves as soon as she is old enough to walk,” counseled the fashion authority Geneviève Antoine Dariaux in her 1964 book “Elegance.” Alas, she was, metaphorically speaking, in a leaky boat, her determined bailing futile. In the early-1960s, although their importance was waning, gloves were still a telling detail-the mark of a lady, just as they had been for hundreds of years. Vreeland never underestimated the power of detail. Reshoot it with leather gloves,” she commanded. EARLY IN HER MIDCENTURY tenure as Vogue’s editor in chief, Diana Vreeland had Grace Mirabella, then a fashion editor and later her successor, restage an entire fashion editorial because of a seeming triviality: “You’ve ruined the texture of the coat by showing it with that jersey glove.

Leather opera gloves