Saturday, August 19, 2006

Edmund Dulac, Princess Badoura, 1913

Georges Barbier, Lady With a Dragon, ca. 1920s

Image by ©Stapleton Collection/CORBIS

Utagawa Toyokuni, The Tea House Beauty, 18th ct

Image by © Brooklyn Museum/Corbis

W. & D. Downey, Actress Evelyn Millard in Madame Butterfly, late 19th ct

Late 19th century, possibly London, England, UK --- Miss Evelyn Millard In 'Madame Butterfly' --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

Toyohara Kunichika, Japanese Women with Fashionable Western Braided Hairstyles, 1877

Up-to-date hairstyles, showing the popularity of Western fashions less than a decade after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 opened Japan to Western trade and ideas. --- Image by © Asian Art & Archaeology, Inc./CORBIS

Toyohara Kunichika, Japanese Women with Fashionable Western Braided Hairstyles, 1877

Up-to-date hairstyles, showing the popularity of Western fashions less than a decade after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 opened Japan to Western trade and ideas. --- Image by © Asian Art & Archaeology, Inc./CORBIS