ABSTRACT
Up until 1915, through the publication of her first two books and the beginning of her career as a lecturer, the only picture accompanying articles about Amy Lowell was a portrait of her as an 18-year-old debutante. It was finally replaced in 1916 by a series of portraits taken at Moffett Studios in Chicago. Covered from head to toe in dark, modest clothing, Lowell stares out of these portraits looking startlingly old-fashioned, a relic of the past century. She had a taste for bright, bejeweled, flashy clothes, but these were reserved for private occasions-the theater, the opera, family dinners. In formal portraits, as well as on the lecture circuit and during business meetings, her clothing remained roughly consistent with the styles of her twenties at the turn of the century.
