Körmöczi Katalin szerk.: Historical Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum 3 - From the End of the Turkish Wars to the Millennium - The history of Hungary in the 18th and 19th centuries (Budapest, 2001)

ROOM 14. Endurance, Compromise and Economic Boom "The Repudiation of That Which is Illegal is No Mere Option, But Rather an Obligation" (Ferenc Deák) (Katalin Körmöczi - Edit Haider)

60. Afternoon attire once belonging to an artist's wife, with the label of the Budapest firm József Girardi Robes & Confection, 1902-03 sion; her attire was made around 1900 (Fig. 59). On her clothing, which is embellished with net, velvet and machinemade lace, is the label "Vincent-Lachartoulle 15 Rue de Faub St Honoré Paris". The aristocratic man's evening dress, made of wool, was also made around 1900; it bears the label "Miskolczy Gáspár Budapest". The hussar lieutenant's uniform is also made of wool, and is embellished with frogging made from wire thread. The well-off middle-class woman's costume for a special occasion was made in Vienna around 1880. The velvet bodice, ornamented with pearls, braid and machine-made lace, bears the label "Mme Jeanette Faber Vienne I. Spiegelgasse 23."; the skirt is a reconstruction. The little girl's afternoon wear was made at the end of the 19th century from woollen cloth, and is embellished with silk ribbon. The middle-class town-dweller wears morning dress made around 1900, the attire came from the workshop with the label "Csernyák Mátyás férfi szabó Budapest I. Pauler u. 4." The morning attire of the middle-class woman is made from silk and is embellished with braid and and machine-made lace; it was produced around 1900. The girl's clothes were made from silk between 1905 and 1910, and are embellished with braid. The costume of the middle-class woman from the provinces is made from cotton embellished with silk; it was made in Debrecen around 1900. The man's attire, the woollen ferencjóska overcoat, was made in 1907; it has the label "Bertái és Kransz Úriszabók Budapest Andrássy út 10". This was a characteristic item of clothing for middle-class men in town and country at the turn of the century. Next to the little girl and the pram, there is a young person from the country in linen clothing from around 1900. The artist's wife, a member of the bourgeois intelligentsia, is in afternoon attire, in a costume made in 1902-03 and embellished with braid woven from wire thread (Fig. 60). Famous Pest coffee-houses - and in them coffee, newspapers, chess, dominoes, cards, billiards, and writers, journalists and artists at their usual tables.