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Fashionable Style - Massive hat with feather adornment

Fashionable Bulgarian Style - Pretty model wearing a massive hat with Ostrich Feathers adornment, shaped almost like eagle's wings!! She is enjoying a glass of something strong. A mild satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats during this period. Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Mr Louis Napoleon Parker playing a solo on the Megaphone

Mr Louis Napoleon Parker (1852-1944) "playing a solo" on the Megaphone at the Warwick Pageant of 1906 (the only way he could successfully direct a vast cast). The Warwick Pageant was a huge drama festival, organised by Parker, which took place in the grounds of Warwick Castle, England, in July 1906 and was later described as the biggest thing which ever happened to Warwick. Parker announced in 1911 that more than 15, 000 performers had gone through his hands, and audiences had reached a quarter of a million!! Date: 1906

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Fancy Dress costume - Kitchener pun, 1898

Quite brilliant fancy dress costume on the pun of Kitchener's great with a man dressed as a kitchen range or stove, with the words Kitchener's grate written across the front - a reference to military commander, Lord Kitchener. Worn by Mr Stanford at the Covent Garden Fancy Dress Ball. Date: 1898

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans