Gazette du Bon Ton "La Menagere Accomplie" (Shopping: Accomplished Housewife)  E-mail this product to a friend

GdBT. The Accomplished Housewife goes to the market in her little dress designed by Georges Doeuillet, carrying her parasol, and accompanied by her maid to do the carrying of her purchases.

Original 1921 Pierre Brissaud pochoir published in Paris for La Gazette du Bon Ton (Journal of Good Style), illustrating the latest superior fashion, worn in an appropriate situation. 

Original pochoir (French for stencil) coloured by gouache and watercolour, with different stencils of zinc for each colour. Gazette du Bon Ton was the periodical for the well-to-do, published by Lucien Vogel in Paris between 1912 and 1925 (with a break during World War I) and distributed by Condé Nast. Distributed in the U.S. as Gazette du Bon Genre, both titles translate roughly as Journal of the Good Style.

Size of page 24 x 19cm or 9.1/2" x 7.1/2"