Evening Wear by Worth and Doeuillet

This hand-colored etching from Gazette du Bon Ton depicts fashionable evening gowns of the early 1920s, rendered in the refined linear style characteristic of fashion illustration. Three elegantly dressed women model couture designs—a Worth evening coat and Doeuillet dinner dresses—their figures elongated in the Art Deco manner. The figure on the left wears a distinctive headpiece rendered in dark ink, a stylistic choice that emphasizes chic artificiality. The publication itself descended from the 19th-century tradition of satirical and observational prints; here, fashion satire serves as social commentary on luxury, femininity, and the constructed nature of high society. The colored ornamental patterns on the lower garments signal the era's embrace of modernist decoration.