Cool Collection (page 2)

Susan Baptiste wearing a Hildebrand dress, 1966
Susan Baptiste, who worked at a theatrical agency, pictured in London Life magazines What People are Wearing section wearing a voile dress with trumpet sleeves in a smudgy flower print of sea green

Lucy Bartlett - British celebrity and designer
Lucy Bartlett (1941- ), British celebrity and designer pictured at. Date: 1966

1960s knitting crochet pattern for dress modelled by Twiggy
Front cover of a crochet pattern for a quick crochet suit in Twilleys Stalite wool, worn here by archetypal sixties model, Twiggy. Date: c.1966

Scenes at the Kent Waterworks, 1876
Engraving showing a series of scenes at the Kent Waterworks, near London, in 1876. The images show (clockwise from top left)

First cover of London Life magazine
Very first cover of London Life magazine, published on 9th October 1965 with an eye-catching oversized date line and a photograph of sixties supermodel Celia Hammond photographed by Terence Donovan

Milk and squash vending machines
Two cold drinks vending machines standing side by side, one for cool refreshing milk, the other for cool refreshing Kia-Ora fruit squash

Comic postcard, Large woman keeping cool at the seaside Date: 20th century

Sweet Fanny Adams, Carnaby Street, 1960s
A woman in large sunglasses sporting a feather boa poses outside Sweet Fanny Adams, a Carnaby Street womenswear boutique founded by Henry Moss

Mens boutique in Carnaby Street, 1960s
Interesting view (in a convex mirror) of the interior of a mens boutique in Carnaby Street, the fashionable epicentre of swinging sixties London

Camel caravan passing through Kafar Tkerime nr Aleppo, Syria
A Camel caravan passing the interesting conical houses at the village of Kafar Tkerime near Aleppo, Syria. They were built in this style to remain cool during the hot summer months. Date: circa 1950s

Beehive Houses - village of Kafar Tkerime nr Aleppo, Syria
Interesting conical houses at the village of Kafar Tkerime near Aleppo, Syria. Built in this style to remain cool during the hot summer months. Date: circa 1930s

Judy Whitehouse wearing Granny Takes a Trip blouse
Judy Whitehouse, a plastic surgery nurse, featuring in London Life magazines What People are Wearing section in a brown suede suit from Trog in Paris worn with a beige silk blouse from Granny Takes a

London Life - London Still Swinging, 1966
Front cover of London Life magazine with the headline, Looks Like Its Still Swinging! to flag up a feature investigating whether London is still the swinging city it was dubbed by Time magazine in

Jewellery designer Carol Russell in Biba
Carol Russell, a freelance jewellery designer wearing a jersey trouser suit from Biba in a brown and beige check. The necklace is one of her own and was available from Tony Armstrong boutique

London Life party in the GPO Tower 1966
Guests at a party thrown by short-lived by hip and happening magazine, London Life at the top of the newly-built GPO (Post Office) Tower in May 1966

Susie Bisco in 1960s fashions
Susie Bisco, fashion coordinator for an advertising agency in New York, pictured wearing a black and white check dress (and English import for Bigi of Bergdorf Goodman)

British models bring the London look to Paris, 1966
A group of four British models pose for the camera in Paris in the Boulevard St. Germain, 1966. They had flown over along with Alice Pollack and Ossie Clark of the Quorum boutique

Cathy McGowan (b. 1943), journalist and TV presenter, finding fame and iconic style status as the presenter of the cult pop programme Ready Steady Go!

Sybil Zelker of Polly Peck shopping at Woollands
Sybil Zelker, designer of the fashion brand Polly Peck, finding sale bargains at Woollands 21 Shop with her daughter Elizabeth

1960s fashion in London Life magazine
Part of a fashion spread in extremely groovy, but short-lived London Life magazine in 1966. Man on the left wears a pillar box red blazer by Rodex

Charlotte Rampling in Jean Varon
Actress Charlotte Rampling (born 1946) pictured in her Avengers dress by Jean Varon (designed by British designer John Bates), black and white crepe

Peggy Moffitt
Margaret Anne " Peggy" Moffitt (born May 14, 1940)former American model and actress. During the 1960s, she was muse for fashion designer Rudi Gernreich

Dress by Ginger Group - Mary Quant, 1965
A khaki crepe dress, severely simple, stitched in white, with shiny brass buttons from Mary Quants Ginger Group. Date: 1965

Floral cotton anorak by Neatawear, 1965
Model wearing a summer anorak in a cotton floral print by Neatawear, matched with a bra and hipster shorts. Date: 1965

Looking Cool. Saltburn by the Sea, 1980 Date: 1980

Tatler front cover, Glyndebourne, June 1963
Front cover of The Tatler, June 1963, with a front cover suggesting their theme which is their summer number goes to Glyndebourne

Chalk sea diorama
Diorama of Cretaceous (144 to 65 million years ago) sea floor chalk deposits, and various cephalopods

Advert for Wills Gold Flake cigarettes
Wills Gold Flake cigarette advert. " Cool and Fresh" Date: 1930

Eva Marie Saint visits the London Life office
Evan Marie Saint (born 1924), American actress best known for starring in On the Waterfront and North by North-West pictured visiting the fashion department of the London Life magazine offices to

View across a lake toward mountains
A view across the gently rippling blue green waters of a lake toward a tree-capped Island and distant pale blue mountains. Airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith

WE DAREN T WASTE IT by W. Heath Robinson
A variety of ingenious inventions and machines designed to help people cope and keep cool during an August heatwave. Please note

Mens underwear / 1912
An advertisement for Porosknit mens summer underwear. Always keeps you in cool comfort

Hotel Hallway 1920S
A hotel interior showing a long corridor off which are flights of stairs. It has the cool, minimalist elegance of the art deco era

Princess Elizabeth of York with her mother, Duchess of York
A woman lies back luxuriously on a beach, dressed in a bathing suit. Alongside her a dog and an oriental parasol can be seen. 1928

Circus Silhouette
A silhouette of a circus ring with tight-rope walkers. 1927

Interesting conical houses near Hama, Syria. Built in this style to remain cool during the hot summer months. Date: circa 1906

Jacob Jordaens (1593 A?i? 1678). Flemish Baroque painter. The Satyr and the Peasant. 1620-1621. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Ploughing, Egypt
A farmer ploughs his fields with a pair of oxen in the cool of early dawn Date: 1904

Advert for H. W. Koehler - vacuum flask 1912
" Autotherm", vacuum flask, maintaining heat for 24 hours and keeps liquid cool for days. 1912

Pen Small wearing needlecord trouser suit from Clobber
Pen Small wearing a pink and brown printed trouser suit in needlecord from Clobber, the Blackheath boutique opened by designer Jeff Banks in 1964 (the same year Mary Evans Picture Library launched)

Tina Birch and Allan Sherman outside the Lady Jane boutique
Comedian Allan Sherman poses with Tina Birch (wearing a mini dress) outside the Lady Jane boutique in Carnaby Street, London in 1966

1960s fashion
Model wearing a lilac spotted Tricel shirt with deep plum bellbottoms. Both by Londonus. The leather flat shoes are from Russell and Bromley and the hoop earrings from Corocraft

Amanda Sturge in a checked trouser suit by Bee Young
Amanda Sturge, featured in the pages of London Life magazine in 1966 in a feature called, What People Are Wearing in Bri-Nylon

Carnaby street shoppers, 1966
A couple of typical young Carnaby Street shoppers in 1966, dressed fashionably to visit the myriad of cool and happening shops lining the street at the height of the swinging sixties in London

Carnaby Street 1966
Map of Carnaby Street, fashionable centre of swinging sixties London, with a key showing the location of clothing boutiques and Cranks wholefood restaurants. Date: 1966

Dana렂est wearing a Biba moire suit
Model DanaÙáéest wearing a purple moire trouser suit from Biba with a polo blouse made for her. Her son, Alexander, nearly three, wears navy trousers from Grade One

Lilac velvet trouser suit by Bagatel, 1966
Lilac embossed velvet trouser suit with long lean jacket by Bagatel worn with a navy woollen scarf from W. Bill, sunglasses from Correna and gloves by Morley. 1966

Model Jill Kennington in feline make-up
Model Jill Kennington made up with a fantastical cat-like face. Date: 1965

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