Tag Archives: Clothing and hair styles of the 1870s and 1880s

Les Cartes des visite A carte de visit was  a calling card with one’s photograph on it. This novel alternative to embossed cards became hugely popular with the middle classes. After one went to the big ‘at home’ in the sky, it seemed a pity to throw them out, so they were kept by loving families, who lovingly stuckContinue reading “The utter misery of the studio portrait.”