The Thickets of Long Ago

"Fashion has a flair for the topical, no matter where it stirs in the thickets of long ago; it is a tiger’s leap into the past,"
Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1940

Eugene Corbin - French camouflage - 1914
via Complex

Mela Koehler - Wiener Werkstaette fashion illustration - 1910-4
via The Blue Lantern

Unknown artist - French camouflage prototypes - 1914