Manteaux inspirés des costumes tchéco-slovaques

This hand-colored pochoir print from Gazette du Bon Ton depicts two fashionable women wearing cloaks inspired by Czechoslovak folk dress—a design trend following the newly independent nation's 1918 founding. The composition reflects the fashion magazine's elegant Art Deco aesthetic, with simplified forms and bold color planes characteristic of early twentieth-century decorative printing. The caption quotes a sentimental French verse about sisterly affection. Such ethnic-inspired designs were common in interwar haute couture. The work exemplifies how comic and satirical print traditions evolved into fashion illustration and graphic design, where caricature's formal vocabulary—exaggeration, cultural type, decorative line—persisted in commercial rather than overtly political contexts.