Frou Frou Vintage French Poster
Imp. Reunies de Lyon
France
1940s
Poster on Linen
31 x 47.5"
Whimiscal advertisement for women's lingerie. Frou Frou: Nineteenth-century Europe featured a lot of sophisticated fashions-especially in Paris, a city considered by many to be the fashion capital of the world. Women's dresses were often made of drooping layers of fabric (such as satin or silk) that rustled as the women moved around, and "froufrou" was the French word coined in imitation of the sound they made. The word made its first appearance in English in 1870 as a noun meaning "rustling." It later came to mean "ostentatious decoration," and its usage expanded beyond the world of fashion to other crafts such as architecture and interior design.

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Conservation mounted to linen, unobtrusive fold lines