Book Cover Inspiration ~ Red from Germany's Changeless by Gail Carriger

You all know, Fashionable Reader, that I love red. If I had to pick a favorite color to wear it would be red...  But I would hate to have to pick.

Here's the German cover of Changeless for inspiration: Alexia and her... umbrella.

And here we go, dressing my characters in red...

For Dimity...

1865-1868  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bangle  1840  Christie’s

For Alexia...

1887  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1890s  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

For Baroness Tunstell...

1879  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1905  Antique Dress

1885  The Museum at FIT

For Countess Nadasdy...

1884 Evening dress via The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

For Quesnel...

1890s Ascot  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1895 Pocket Watch  Patek Philippe,  Sotheby’s

For Prudence...

1892  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1891-1892 Evening Dress The Museum of the City of New  York

1900  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1895-1915  The Victoria & Albert Museum

1880-1885  Bonnet  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

1910  The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

And after my books...

1912  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

1920s Hostess Gown  The Frock

1925 Brooch  Tiffany & Co.  Doyle Auctions

1925 Evening Shawl  Madeleine Vionnet, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1930s  Timeless Vixen Vintage

 1930 Suit  Edward Molyneux, 1930s  The Victoria & Albert Museum; 1938  The Arizona Costume Institute

1935 Cartier  Christie’s

1938 Suit  Coco Chanel  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Coat  1940s  Timeless Vixen Vintage

Earrings  Doyle Auctions

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