Rentrons, La Fraicher Tombe… Robes du Soir de Doeuillet.

Rare double sized Art Deco pochoir fashion illustration by Andre Marty from Gazette du Bon Ton.

These dresses and evening coat are from Dœuillet. The cloak, clasped in front by a silver cord, is in supple taffeta with two silver embroidered bands and fine pearls. To his right, a tulle and satin dress embroidered with pearls and tubes. The two middle dresses are, one a satin sheath, covered with a pleated tunic trimmed with pearls and jet, the other a taffeta draped skirt with a tunic effect and a bodice also in taffeta, widely open. The last, on the left, is a satin crepe dress covered with a tunic fringed with crystal beads.

From “Gazette du Bon Ton”, published by Lucien Vogel and his artists all of whom were trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. The pochoir technique was originally employed for colouring woodblock prints in the C15th. It involved applying layers of colour gouache paint (with as many as thirty stages) to create the one design. Styles were influenced by art movements such as Cubism, Fauvism and the Russian Ballet. Rare.