Department Store - The Edwardian Department Store 1912 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
Department Store - The Edwardian Department Store 1912 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1912
Original Title: Elliott Taylor Wooldfenden, Millinery
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: 2473-2481 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Mi (orig address 1-37 Henry St)
This is a department store in the Edwardian era (1890-1914 or so), not to be mistaken for the Victorian era, which is what I keep doing. You can recognize this era by its date, or by its fashion.
A Victorian lady, had an hour glass figure, using a corset to smash in her middle, she had a a large top and a large bottom, and a thin part in the center.
A Edwardian lady had an S shaped figure. Using an S shaped Corset, a device that has a sort of bend in it. It pushed the top forward, and the back out, keeping the waist slim. So the effect had a sort of front leaning in look and the dresses weren't as full looking as the Victorians had it.
Take a look at the manikins! When I first made this, I was certain at least a few were real, but they are all big dolls. They have wheels at the bottom. The only reason ours have legs today is because they are allowed to show them. Everything back then was floor length dresses.
I think the wall in the back near the windows were the dressing rooms. Though I'm not sure what that chair is, the back flips up, one assumption was, it helped push a lady off the chair. Being in a corset was probably bad for bending. But it doesn't have enough leverage for that, and I couldn't find anything about it online, what to call it etc.
The colors came from a very nice looking postcard of this exact scene. The carpet was green, the lights blue. The elevator runner was green as well but looked weird that way.
I don't know what the ghosts are, there is one under the table in the far back, floating in front of the leg. And the other is in the lower left corner.
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September 11th, 2019
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