Carefree Collection

Children at Seaside - Sunny Days by C V MacKenzie
Lovely illustration depicting three little girls having fun and relaxing on some grass close to a beach during their summer holidays

Printed matching shorts and shirt outfit, 1956
Gaily patterned Italian shorts and shirt in a multi-coloured cotton from Finnigans. Date: 1956

Young, muscular man on the beach
insertcaption Date: circa 1920s

Cheery cover of London Opinion magazine, May 1932, featuring a group of gaily dressed and very pretty young women sitting on a sea wall. Date: 1932

Music cover, Change Partners, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Music cover, Change Partners, featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, lyrics and music by Irving Berlin from the film Carefree. 1938

The Surfing Girl
Riding the Bubbling Breakers - The Surfing Girl in South Africa. Date: 1926

The Wiesenthal Sisters, appearing at London Hippodrome
The embodiment of joy, the three Wiesenthal sisters, Grete, Elsa and Berta, demonstrating their carefree and ecstatic form of dance

The Carefree film premiere at the New Gallery
Lady Caroline Paget, Lady Elizabeth Paget, Lady Alexandra Haig, Mr Michael Lubbock, and a friend talk over the film at the premiere of the new Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film Carefree

Silhouette, Sans Souci, carefree family relaxing

Friendship - four girls, 1940s
Four friends pose for a photograph together. Date: c.1948

Jolly crowd in the sea
A jolly crowd of bathers wave at the camera as they stand in the sea at an unidentified seaside resort. Date: 1920s

1930s woman walking dog - Daimler car
A woman in a red suit joyfully talking her wire-haired fox terrier for a walk. No wonder shes so carefree. That car is a Daimler. Date: 1936

RESTORATION PARTY 1660S
The carefree court of Charles II : The King with Lady Castlemaine. Date: 1660s

Beach tumbler, West Indies
Local man tumbles down the beach doing back flips like an acrobat towards the waves. St Lucia, West Indies. Date: 1986

Miss Modern Christmas August 1932 by Wilton Williams
Front cover of Miss Modern magazine featuring an illustration showing women surf-riding - a sort of forerunner of water-skiing. Date: 1932

The Same Dream by Fred Buchanan
A Land Girl, with her pitchfork momentarily rested, and a British officer in the trenches, both have the same dream about a carefree day at the seaside only a year ago

Woman in smart summer suit pushing a perambulator
Woman in smart summer suit pushing her baby in a very fine perambulator. Date: circa 1930s

Model splashing about in the surf
A model (Gill Emberton) splashing about in the seaside surf. Date: circa 1960s

Quartet of friends on holiday in Margate, 1930s
A jolly quartet of friends, arms linked for a photograph, while on holiday in Margate in the 1930s. The chaps are in casual wear (defined by the open collars and sporty knitwear)

In the bay at Monte Carlo by Matania
In the bay at Monte Carlo, with happy young holiday makers (in this case, nubile young women in swimsuits) enjoying a boat ride. Date: 1934

Wolsey bathing suits and beach suits advertisement, 1931
Advertisement for Wolsey bathing and beach suits made of smooth, soft wool, with an elastic, close-ribbed knit that makes them fit, in the water or out of it, just like an extra skin. Date: 1931

The passage of romance
The Passage of Romance! - Before, During (" Yum Yum" ) and After. The passage from the carefree chase, the early spring of passion and the descent into household drudgery and daily ennui

A carefree boy
Jog on, Jog on the footpath way?. Poem from Shakespeares Winters Tale. A happy boy keen to move on in life. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: 1909

Things We Vow We Will Do, When Peace Breaks out
Cartoon by George Studdy showing a gent purposefully indulging in wasteful behaviour, a welcome relief after years of food control, shortages and rationing. Date: 1918

The Jazz Age - scene from Champagne
On with the dance - a study in modernity from the film, Champagne, a British movie shown by the Wardour Company, directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Advert for Kestos lingerie 1933
Advertisement for Kestos lingerie showing a carefree young woman prancing about in her undies. 1933

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Why Worry! Cares of the time are danced away by this young couple, frolicing in the garden without a care in the world. Date: circa 1942

Young Gent - 12 Months before marriage - care and fancy free! Date: 1905

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