{"id":486,"date":"2013-05-23T15:20:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/?p=486"},"modified":"2014-04-12T16:48:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T20:48:55","slug":"a-victorian-fashion-history-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/materialmode\/2013\/05\/23\/a-victorian-fashion-history-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"A Victorian Fashion History Mystery…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"F\u00e9lix-1863\"<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\"F\u00e9lix-1869\"<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \"F\u00e9lix-1860s\"<\/a><\/p>\n

From time to time, we come across beautiful items in our collection that cause us to stop, take note, and delve more into their history. \u00a0These dainty and diminutive sketches of Victorian millinery may have been executed by Auguste F\u00e9lix, or the designs of a milliner of that same name, for the firm Poirier. \u00a0Examples are also found in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, but our research reveals little else about F\u00e9lix or Poirier.<\/p>\n

\"Felix-1866\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"F\u00e9lix-1862\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"F\u00e9lix-1866-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Can anyone help us solve this fashion history mystery?\u00a0We know you Material Mode readers are crackerjack fashion historians!<\/p>\n

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