Vintage Women: Adult Coloring Book #6: Fashion from the Year 1916 (Vintage Women: Adult Coloring Books)

Around the year 1916, shortly after the Edwardian Era came to a close, fashion was in a state of flux.

Women’s clothing styles were finally shifting away from bustles and tight corsets, high necklines and long skirts. Instead, there was more of an emphasis on natural waistlines, fuller — often shorter — skirts, and smaller hats.

“Flounces of all sorts and ruffles of every possible width are smart,” wrote the designers behind the popular May Manton patterns. Also on trend: beads, embroidery, fine stitchery, “broad hips, comparatively short skirts, the drooping shoulders, the dainty under sleeves, frills and the like.”

Between the covers of this book, you will find 44 coloring pages showing the tea gowns, simple frocks, swimwear and “sport costumes” that were popular in the United States during that simpler time a century ago.

Now, get ready to take a look back to a century ago, and give these clothes the color and verve they have been missing for all of these years.