Gazette du Bon Ton, 1914 - No. 5, pag. 175: Bas-reliëfs 1914

This etching was made by J. Renée Souef for Gazette du Bon Ton in 1914. It has this playful quality that makes me think about the sheer joy of drawing! I imagine Souef sitting at a table with their etching tools, conjuring this image through tiny lines and marks. The image shows a skirt, the frills highlighted with pink and blue, hanging from a pair of dainty feet, while two hand-lined arcs sprinkled with dots frame the skirt. It looks like a study for an imaginary costume! The hands that hold the skirt aloft are rendered in a minimal fashion, as if sketched quickly and without much care. The text above the image tells us that this is fashion, and is about modernism without interest: it's a play on how fashion changes and how we, as observers, change with it.