Click for a slideshow of 1910 fashions, Nicholson picsAlso the letters on his website are full of information about the fashions the girls liked and how they sewed them.   

Women's kinky fashions prove that they are not fit to vote: article from 1913 Montreal Gazette

More articles from 1908-1913 period about Women's Fashions from Montreal Gazette archives

Edith describes her hat-buying excursion to Ogilvy's, a Montreal institution, where she spends $7.50 (equivalent to about $2.000. today) on a hat! Hats were BIG in 1910.

Edith describes the fashions at a 1912 Richmond, Quebec wedding reception.
Here's a picture of Edith in 1908 era dressed as a teacher would be. 

FILMED FASHION!Real life people    Hunting Fashion.    How the very poor dressed.

Edwardian Fashion: the women lived in the Edwardian Age. This page leads to 8 plates from 1912 Pictorial Review.  The latest fashions in blouses, gowns, houses dresses, shirtwaists, skirts etc. (Many pieces!)

Here's a head and shoulders shot of Edith dressed in her best clothing for a photo shoot.  Here's a chain-letter Birks Jewellers sent her in 1908.

Titanic Fashion.   Hats Feminism and Royalty 1910-1937   The Corset and Morality

A Tale of Two Wedding Gowns. See how wedding fashions changed between 1900 and 1910. (Paris)      A Victorian Wedding Gown, 1883

High Fashion: 3 elegant Harper's Bazar gowns..Were big hats on the way out?

Colour Plate Ladies' Gowns, the Delineator 1909…plus some children's fashions

Paris 1910 Wedding Party and gowns      A high fashion 1911 bridal gown (Southern Belle, MacArthur cousin's wedding in Virginia. and other deep south fashions of the era)

1913 invoice: Marion's wedding party dresses up!

1913 Letter to the Editor: Women's Expensive Clothes Habit (Men can't afford them!)

Flight Fashion: Nothing symbolized the lust for freedom 1910 women were feeling like the new art of flying.

Outside link to page about Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The Nicholsons made their own shirtwaists, but in 1911 a fatal fire in a sweatshop in Manhattan galvanized the union movement in the US. Fashion is connected to women's happiness in more ways than the obvious one

Click for link to a page where you can purchase Mercedes Steedman's paper on the Canadian Garment Industry of the 1890-1940 era: Angels of the Workplace.

Description of the profession of 'salesgirl' and factory workers  in 1913, Royal Commission on Industrial Training and Technical Education. Factory Workers 1910 pic.

Click here for an overview of Montreal's St Catherine Street Shopping from historical perspective on Civilization.ca

Want to make a shirtwaist? Link to Edwardian Fashion patterns you can buy (or just look at).  Click here for invoice for 1900 Sewing Notions

Beautiful History of Fashion Website: Fashion Era.

Gert Van de Merwe mixes Edwardian, 50's fashion:Chanel's "the little black dress" as a symbol of subservience--or liberation?