Checked Collection (page 2)

Our Boys Clothing Company, teenagers jacket suits 1895
Young gentlemans dress or dinner jacket suit (Figure 104), youths dress suit, showing white dress vest (Figure 105), morning coat with checked trousers (Figure 106), vacation suit

Easter fashion for womens outdoor wear 1924
Simple tailored suit in black and white check Saxony suiting, designed and carried out by Burberrys in Haymarket. Date: 1924

Lace Dressing Room at a Nottingham Lace Factory 1843
The lace-dressing room at a Nottingham Lace Factory where the lengths of material are checked and finished. Date: 1843

BANG BANG
Full-length portrait of a model in a checked shirt and cropped jeans poses with her fingers making a gun. Date: late 1960s

Country Clothes 1907
James Buchanan wears checked jodhpurs, gaiters & boots, a red waistcoat, a wing collar & tie, a tweed jacket with rounded front borders & a low crowned top hat. Date: 1907

HIKING FASHIONS 1926
Feminine rambling fashions of 3/4 length tweed or checked skirts worn with matching or contrasting jackets. Stockings or ankle socks are worn with various styles of shoe. Date: 1926

MADRAS CHECK FROCK 1940S
A young woman, wearing a madras check dress with short puff sleeves, paints her nails. Date: 1940s

CHECKING PERSIAN CARPETS
Persian carpets are checked and examined in the workshop of an importer, before being offered for sale. Date: circa 1930

KIRK DOUGLAS / UNITED ART
KIRK DOUGLAS (Issur Danielovitch Demsky) American film actor Date: 1916 -

6th Baron Walsingham
Thomas de Grey (1843 -), 6th Baron Walsingham Naturalist and sportsman; looking dapper in checked waistcoat and jacket

Oh You Pretty Darling! Grand Theatre, Luton
Oh You Pretty Darling! at the Grand Theatre, Luton. early 20th century

Hullo! Everybody, Revue, Hippodrome, Putney, SW London
Hullo! Everybody, Revue, at the Hippodrome, Putney, SW London, a Harry Day production. 1916

Studio photographic portrait of a young girl wearing a check dress, her dark curly hair partly tied back. Date: circa 1900s

Mamie Holland music hall male impersonator 1896-1963
Mamie Holland (Emily Alexander) male impersonator in music hall and musical comedy. Wearing three-piece checked suit with Homburg (?), spats and a cane

Tabby cat sitting at a table
Unusual Friends - tabby cat sitting at a table. 1950s

Woman in clown fancy dress outfit
A woman poses for her studio photograph, looking quite pensive considering the wacky checked clown outfit shes wearing. Date: 1920s

Fashionable bathing suits of the 1920s
The cover illustration of The Spheres womens section features an array of fashionable outfits. The woman on the right sports an American wasp-stripe bathing suit

Inspector Sheila Ward, Met Police, London
Inspector Sheila Ward (b.c1937), Met Police, London, the first woman to hold the post of Station Inspector, at Kings Cross. Seen here speaking to a line of male police officers

Princess Margaret meeting Metropolitan Police officers during a visit to the Commissioners Mess. Among those present are Assistant Commissioner John Gerrard

Eight women police officers in new Surrey uniform
Eight women police officers posing in the new Surrey uniform introduced in 1973. The jacket was single-breasted with four buttons, trousers were introduced as an option

Prince George, Duke of Kent stylish checked twill suit, 1930
Prince George, later Duke of Kent (1902-1942), pictured wearing a smart, double-breasted suit in a brown mixture cheviot with a bold twill ground and large overcheck of a lighter shade. Date: 1930

Pin-Up in Shorts 1950S
A smiling blonde girl poses on a striped towel wearing shorts, her boyfriends checked shirt with the sleeves rolled up & high heeled, peep-toe mules. She holds a straw hat. Date: 1950s

Tea table with strawberries and jam
Tea table set out with freshly picked strawberries, a pot of jam, and cups of tea poured out. 1936

Sandwich board man with dogs on a Victorian scrap
Sandwich board man attacked by two dogs on a Victorian scrap. He is advertising J Thridgould & Co, Sidney Street (off Commercial Road), cheapest house in London for scraps

The Early Iron Age. The bog body from Huldremose in Djursland from 100 AD. The woman wore a skirt of wool, a scarf and two fleece capes. Her hair was tied up with a long woollen cord

Five police officers, including Inspector Helen Hunt, who is wearing the Norman Hartnell style womens uniform introduced in 1968

Margaret Thatcher meeting Metropolitan Police officers
Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, nee Roberts, 1925-2013), who served as British Conservative Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990

Woman police officer in uniform, London
Woman police officer in woollen V-neck jumper and trousers, together with the reinforced bowler hat introduced in 1985. Date: circa 1985

Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny
An English country gentleman wears a brown checked jacket & matching waistcoat, jodhpurs, high black riding boots with spurs, brown leather gloves, a bowler hat & cane. Date: 1901

Veronica Lake (1922 - 1973), (Constance Ockleman) American film actress Date: 1919 -

Gary Cooper / Signed Photo
GARY COOPER American film actor Date: 1901 - 1961

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

Burberry cotton houndstooth coat and Simone Mirman turban
A Burberry in French cotton printed in large black and white houndstooth design, fully shower proof and lined with cherry taffeta

Pierre Balmain at Debenhams advertisement, 1959
A bold-checked nine-tenths coat buttoned with discs of ocean pearl, the shoulder line drops from the curve of the horseshoe collar by Pierre Balmain available at Debenhams (Debenham and Freebody)

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)

Checked knitted chess board vest, WW1
A British soldier proudly displaying a knitted vest under his jacket which, as well as eeping him warm, doubles as a portable chess and draughts board

Three people with a car
Three people, a man and two women, posing alongside a car with an a badge on the front

John Le Carre (David Cornwell)
John le Carr (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, b 1931), English author of spy novels, many of which have been adapted for television and film. He worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s

Pin-Up & Autumn Leaves
Cheesy blonde, grinning insanely, sweeps autumn leaves with a besom broom, wearing nothing more than a short checked shirt, belt & white knickers

1890S Blouse & Hairstyle
Satin blouse with deep lace falling tucker, puffed half- length sleeves with gathered cuff & frill, checked skirt with Swiss belt waistband. N.B doorknocker top knot hairstyle

Comic postcard, railway station platform
Comic postcard, scene on a railway station platform - the young woman is waiting to have her ticket punched. Date: circa 1910s

Coming out of the Post Office by Charles Robinson
Illustration captioned Coming out of the Post Office. The scene shows a young girl holding a letter and licking the stamp as she leaves a crowded post office. Date: 1906

Women in fancy dress, c. 1916
Two women dressed in fancy dress costume. The theme seems to be clowns, but rather elegant ones The girl on the left wears a checked tunic with a neck ruff

Lady with dog in fancy dress
A woman in a smart checked coat and skirt holds her dog - a wire haired fox terrier by the looks of it - who is also dressed in checks with some sort of coat and a jaunty tam o shanter. Date: c.1935

Clothing and hats for womens spring wear 1913
Three very smart models wearing the latest spring clothing and hats Date: 1913

Victorian scrap - Wanted a chappie with some go in him
Victorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - Wanted a chappie with some go in him. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - I should like to marry anyone
Victorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - I should like to marry anyone. late 19th century

Matita advertisement, London Aeroplane Club
Advertisement for Matita, a fashion label specialising in smart, womens tailoring and what was called sportswear in those days

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