Clothing Collection (page 21)

Woman wearing morning dress 1875
Widow wearing elegant Victorian mourning dress, with tassel edge, tails and long train. Hair dressed high at the back with complicated twists and rolls with flat cap. Date: 1875

Greek art. Grave relief of Mnesarete. About 380 BC. Glyptoth
Greek art. Grave relief of Mnesarete. About 380 BC. The dead woman is seated in front of a sorrowing girl. The name is recorded on the pediment Mnesarete (daughter) of Socrates. Glyptothek. Munich

Advertisement for Aristoc silk stockings. An elegant woman talking and enjoying a drink with two officers. The advertisement reads: "A woman in war-time must combine duty with beauty

Lady Trumpington and Nigel Wright discuss Sunday trading
The Conservative peer Lady Trumpington (Jean Alys Barker, Baroness Trumpington, b.1922) and Nigel Wright, the Dickie Dirts clothing retailer, discuss the issue of Sunday trading, 4 February 1982

Men and women in a tailors workshop with sewing machines on the workbenches. Date: circa 1960s

Tailors in a workshop with coat on display
A group of tailors in a workshop with a finished coat on display on a dummy. Date: circa 1960s

Three people in a tailors workshop. Date: circa 1960s

Tailors in a workshop. Date: circa 1960s

Cutter at work on a garment. Date: circa 1960s

Tailor at work on a garment. Date: circa 1960s

Cartoon, The happy meeting, WW1
Cartoon, The happy meeting, showing a French soldier in a tattered uniform finding a dead German soldier lying on the ground, and deciding he could help himself to some of his clothes. Date: 1915

Mrs Robert Hudson wife of Minister of Agriculture and member of the Women's Voluntary Service, in East End, London. Giving out hundreds of articles of clothing

A page of adverts from - February 1954
Three fashion adverts for women's permanent hair styles at Vasco's Hair Bubbles, tailored lingerie at and Supalese early spring tailored suits at Swan & Edgar. Date: 1954

New fabric that stretches three ways Vita-Flex was made of an exclusive process in which pure rubber was interwoven with fine cotton backing. Date: 1939

Advertisement for a range of fur winter coats, made from seal musquash, white fox fur and seal musquash coat with skunk collar and cuffs. Date: 1915

Spain (1820-1823). Civil war. Fan decorated with an illustration of Ferndinand VII swearing loyalty to the Cadiz Constitution. SPAIN. Barcelona. Textile and Clothing Museum

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Un vago es un faccioso (A lazy is a factious). Poster edited by the Departament of Public Order of Aragon

Page of fashion adverts - June 1921
Page of four fashion adverts for womenand children's clothing, from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, June 1921

Advertisement for all purpose Civil Defence workers coat for the winter months. Date: 1941

Two adverts from Kestos, brassieres and girdles and Debenham & Freebody beach outfit. Date: May 1940

Adverts for Women's Military and Civil Clothing WWII
Two adverts for women's clothing first from Moss Bros for the Auxiliary Territorial Service Officer's uniform made from Barathea or Whipcord, supplied read to wear

"Dutifully yours " Silk luxury stockings. Date: 1940
"Dutifully yours... " Silk luxury stockings. Date: 1940

Advert for Burberry women's equipment WWII
During the Second World War Burberry supplied the British Army with a range of military clothing and accessories. Advertisement for a range of Auxiliary Service equipment for women Date: 1941

Signing a contract at Simpsons of Piccadilly, London
A group of men signing a contract at Simpsons of Piccadilly, a large retail shop in Central London selling quality clothing for men which opened in 1936. Date: mid 20th century

Representing the tailors of the regiment making kilts for the Gordon Highlanders in the barrack-yard at Aberdeen. Date: circa 1902

Advert for Kestos lingerie 1939
Women wearing new girdles and high-line brassiers. Date: 1939

Advertisement for William Whiteley elegant straight fronted corset. Date: 1906

Advert for Woollands women's evening coats 1929
Women's Autumn evening jackets. Date: 1929

The charm of the women in black, as revealed at Ascot
Fashionable race-goers wear black in 1910 in mourning for the death of Edward VII. The figures shown (clockwide from the centre) are Countess of Portarington and Mr

Balenciaga Fashion 1965
Balenciaga Paris fashion collection, navy wool lean sleeved jacket suit with brass buttons left open, narrow skirt, collar in linen. Date: 1965

Advert for London Corset Company 1910
Very long below the waist and low in the bust dainty corsets. 1910

National Mourning 1910
The Boudoir - Dame Fashion's Diary in a commemorative issue to mark the death of Edward VII in 1910, showing appropriate mourning clothes, available from Konski's of Conduit Street, London

Advert for Stockings by Bear Brand 1934
Young woman talking on the telephone about her new pair of stockings! Date: 1934

Last Night at Drury Lane 1872
Men and women in their best attire at the theatre in Drury Lane, London, to watch Christine Nilsson a Swedish operatic soprano. Date: 1872

Woman wearing a white old point lace cape with collar, with choux of pale green and pale blue velvet. Date: 1896

Men wearing heavy oilskin protective clothing would go into the tunnels under the streets of London to unblock the sewers with a combing method. Date: 1881

Parisian frocks of satin, georgette and lace. Date: 1923

REINDEER HIDE
While it lives, the reindeer is a means of transport and source of milk : when it dies, its hide is put to good use in clothing. Date: 19th century

CAMEL (BEWICK)
Camelus bactrianus : you can drink its milk, ride it, use it to transport your merchan- -dise - and when it dies you can eat it and weave its hair into clothing or furnishings. Date: 1790

Hammersmith Ghost Paranormal Apparitions 1804
hammersmith, ghost, paranormal, apparitions, 1804, mysterious, figure, white, terrifies, populace, vigilantes, lie, wait, shoot, dead, thomas, milwood, millwood, bricklayer, dusty, clothing, led

Late Victorians children's fashion 1899
Girls and boys linked hands, wearing the latest in Victorian clothing

FUNERAL CLOTHING 1583
Attendants at a funeral in Padova, Italy wear: trunk hose, breeches ('Venetians'), doublets, flat shoes with pointed vamps, ruffs, cloaks, & tall hats such as copotains Date: 1583

Mourning Dress 1888
A windswept, forlorn young widow stands at the ship's railings - the white cliffs of Dover behind her. Fashionable mourning dress is courtesy of Maison Jays, Regent Street. 1888

Mourning dress 1861
The death of Prince Albert prompts full scale national mourning and a surge in the sale of black fabrics. Here are 3 mourning outfits proposed for January 1862. Date: 1861

Milliners at work. Date: 1915

14th century English mourning dress
English mourning dress Date: 14th century

Victorian girl's clothing 1875
Selection of girl's clothing from 1875. Date: 1875

Black Ascot 1910
Black Ascot, King Edward VII, who was a great supporter of racing, died shortly before the event. It was deemed appropriate that the races be conducted in mourning

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