Skirts Collection

Welsh Girls in Traditional Costume 1908
A group of seven Welsh girls in traditional costume. One of them holds a large doll on her lap, and three are holding baskets

Nubians in Ancient Egypt
Nubians from the south bring tribute to the Egyptian Pharaoh; they wear a variety of clothing - skirts short or long, tunics, animal skins, and plumed headgear

Couple kissing outside Carnaby Street boutique
A couple kissing in front of iconic Carnaby Street boutique, I was Lord Kitcheners Valet. Hanging outside can be seen a variety of mens vintage clothing including a naval peacoat

Woman raising her skirts to scare off the devil. Perretta flashing the devil. The devil of Pope-Fig Island. Le diable de Papesiguiere

Tony Blackburn with some groovy things, Carnaby Street
A group of groovy people posed outside a boutique in Carnaby Street, London, including radio DJ Tony Blackburn. Date: 1967

Social / Cup Day at Ascot
Society ladies in Ascot fashions: hobble skirts & panniers, tunic dresses, a loose fitting kimono style dress with oriental embroidery. N.B unfashionably large hats!

Women playing hockey
A womens hockey match -- they are wearing long skirts, which must be rather difficult to run in

Evening Dresses / Worth
Sensually draped dresses with narrow beaded straps, square necklines & detailing over one hip - some with double or triple skirts, uneven hemlines & trains. N.B feather fans

Autumn fashions, Evening Dress
Evening wear fashions for 1916 showing two elegant ladies modelling sleeveless, plunge back gowns with high waists and full skirts typical of the World War One period

Carnaby Street, 1960s
Front cover of a promotional booklet about fashion epicentre of the 1960s, Carnaby Street, London. A model poses in front of the streets various boutiques wearing a Union Jack waistcoat

London Life cover - On the Level - 1960s fashions
Front cover of London Life magazine showing three cast members from a new musical, On The Level (about a GCE scandal) which opened in London on 19 April 1966

Refuelling in a Mini
The modern female petrol pump operator, refuelling a car in her mini skirt

Music cover, Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Ay Polka, arranged by Josef Meissler on Lottie Collins popular song. 1892

1960s crimplene fashion
Models wear outfits in crimplene by Lapidus of Sweden. Date: 1966

Munrospun advertisement featuring librarians, 1964
An advertisement for Munrospun knitwear of Edinburgh featuring two glamorous librarians, wearing skirts and sweaters in softest Lambswool. Date: 1964

Traditional Kalocsa Cushion Dance - Hungary
Traditional Kalocsa Cushion Dance - Bacs-Kiskun county, Hungary. Date: circa 1920s

Womens clothing for May 1913
Women models wearing the latest fashionable garments for evening and walking. Date: 1913

Seminole Indians - USA, Florida, Everglades
The Everglades, Florida, USA. Seminole Indians on the Tamiami Trail. The Kitchen of Chesnut Billys Indian Camp. The Tamiami Trail was opened in 1928

Bacup Coconut Dancers
NUTTERS DANCE:(Lancashire) Britannia Bacup Coconut dancers, York Summer Festival. In order that their spell may be more effective they black their faces in disguise

Surtout Greatcoat 1907
An American surtout greatcoat: double-breasted with waist seam, full skirts, long lapels & a velvet collar. Worn with a bowler (Derby) hat & half- boots or town boots

Housemaids Skirts
Mistress to maid : - Julie, you shouldn t wear such tight skirts, you are showing far too much leg

Costume June 1886
Hand-coloured page of the latest Paris fashion of 1886, dinner dresses with drapped swags and flower arrangements, ball dresses with long gloves and fans and traditional garden party frocks

M RADCLYFFE HALL / CUTTEN
MARGUERITE RADCLYFFE HALL English novelist (right) with her friend, Una, Lady Trowbridge Date: 1886 - 1943

Chic Vs False Chic 1914
True chic - elegant young woman wears the latest fashion to good advantage: hobble skirt & long belted fur trimmed jacket, the skirts of which create a tunic & a fur muff. Date: 1914

Cartoon, Two emancipated women
Modified wartime silhouette: skirts begin to evoke the barrel-line shape being narrower & court shoes are vying with high boots. Hats: tam-o shanter or high crown. Date: 1918

Fashions for 1899
Man in morning dress, the ladies wear dresses with gored skirts, one with a netted & tasselled under-skirt, the other is ornamented with bold wavy lines

Colleen Moore (18991988) - American film actress and one of the most fashionable stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut. Date: circa 1920s

Tobacco farm in Norfolk
Tobacco workers at Major J. F. Whitmores farm at Methwold in Norfolk, loading leaves onto a specially constructed cart. The female workers can be seen wearing a more practical alternative to

Social / Placing Flowers
A dress typical of the close of the 1920s with its low back, flared skirt & uneven hemline dipping to form train- a transitional phase prior to the long skirts of the 30s

Peacock Styling 1916
Satire on the current peacock modes: exaggerated voluminous short skirts in bold stripes & colours with antique accessories like panniers & reticules

Fold-out cover of a one-woman exhibition invitation card
The gatefold fold-out cover of the invitation card to Nancy Sandys Walker's one-woman exhibition 'Feminine Eye View' at the Ilford Gallery, 106/7 High Holborn, London in December 1955

One-woman exhibition invitation card photography
The original photograph for the gatefold fold-out cover of the invitation card to Nancy Sandys Walker's one-woman exhibition 'Feminine Eye View' at the Ilford Gallery, 106/7 High Holborn

Client: Linzi Dresses Ltd. - Trio of models
Client: Linzi Dresses Ltd. - Three models posing in colourful lace evening dresses - Models:s Lynch, H Dehn and H Bunny (?) - Shoot Date: August 27, 1956. (2/2) Date: 1956

Client: Linzi Dresses Ltd. - Trio of models
Client: Linzi Dresses Ltd. - Three models posing in colourful lace evening dresses - Models:s Lynch, H Dehn and H Bunny (?) - Shoot Date: August 27, 1956. (1/2) Date: 1955

Woollands Catalogue shoot - Evening wear
Two young ladies in pretty evening dresses acompanied by a youthful gent in full evening dress - possiby a Woollands Catalogue shoot. Smart interior. Date: circa 1958

Permanently-pleated Blue Cotton Dress
Client: Goldberger Prints - Permanently-pleated Blue Cotton Dress - January 18, 1955 Date: 1955

Elizabeth Henry - White Net Evening Dress - August 16, 1951 Date: 1951

Woman of Manila, on the island of Luzon, the Philippines. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature: The Asiatic Islands and New Holland, R

Sisters Warwick music hall trick cyclists
The Sisters Warwick music hall trick and acrobatic cyclists. Five women dressed in knee length full white skirts with short white jackets, large hats with decorative veiling and flat shoes

Women of the Mordvin Moksha people in traditional costume of embroidered skirts and many accessories. Illustration from Peter Simon Pallas Travels through the southern provinces of the Russia Empire

Squalls by Wilton Williams
Two women struggle in wind to control their umbrellas and skirts. Date: 1923

Four pretty young Austrian girls spin wildly in happy dance
Four pretty young Austrian girls spin wildly in a happy dance on the banks of a lake or seashore. circa 1908

A group of happy schoolgirls wearing Spanish tartan skirts
A group of delighted schoolgirls sit on a wall and look off camera at something that surprises them and makes them smile. They all wear Spanish tartan skirts. Date: circa 1987

Two Women with parasols
Interesting reverse silhouette card from The Netherlands - this card set within a decorative border showing two identical women with parasols greeting each other. Date: circa 1910s

WW1 - Victory - Scottish & English soldiers with French lass
WW1 - Now we ARE alright - Victory - Scottish and English soldiers arm-in-arm with a French lovely jauntily skipping along a Paris Boulevard. Date: 1918

Portuguese girl carrying large flat basket of fish
Girl in traditional Portuguese costume carrying a large flat basket of fish - Lisbon, Portugal. Date: circa 1905

Courtaulds Ltd Advert Photograph
A portrait photograph used for the advertisement of Courtaulds Ltd, a fabric manufacturer. The photo shows an elegantly posed young woman pinching her skirts. Date: circa 1939

Woman With A Fan
An illustration used for fashion advertisement purposes, portraying an elegantly dressed young woman holding up her skirts, with a fan in her right hand. Date: circa 1939

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