Dainty Collection (page 2)

Advert for Neet hair removing cream (1927) featuring the a story relating to dance called The Tangette - a cross between the Argentine Tango and the French Gavotte requiring the utmost of grace

China - Shanghai - Woman with bound feet reclining on divan. Foot binding was the custom of binding the feet of young girls painfully tight to prevent further growth

Tea Table Setting
Tea table setting. Besides the teapot on a stand, with cups and saucers for the beverage itself, there are plates of bread and butter and an assortment of dainty cakes. Date: circa 1900

London in a tank. Date: 20th century

Washing Hands with Soap
A stylish woman washes her dainty hands with lovely soap in her bathroom sink. Date: 1940s

Display of Pralines
A Display of Dainty Types of Pralines - nuts browned in sugar, named after Marechal de Plessis-Pralin (1598-1675) whose cook invented them. 15 kinds are shown here. Date: circa 1930

A Dainty Purchase 1930
Both customer and shop assistant seem delighted by this dainty purchase Date: 1930

Advert for the Dainty Gossard Combination, 1927
Advert for the Dainty Gossard Combination, (lingerie) 1927 Date: 1927

Dainty frock of opal hues, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s

Advertisement for Phat Pheet dancing sandals for dainty little dancers, from Daniel Neal & Sons Limited, Kensington High Street and Edgware Road, London. Date: September 1914

Advert for Shoolbreds blouses 1914
Advertisement for Shoolbreds blouses, illustrating three examples: a smart black fancy net blouse, a dainty ecru net blouse, and a smart ecru net blouse. 1914

Advertisement for Norvic shoes for ladies -- the shoes that are dainty and durable too. Made of pliable patent coltskin, handsewn. From Norvic (Howlett & White Ltd) of Norwich

Petite Dessert Pastries After Cutting Date: 1936

Petits Fours Glace spread. Date: 1936

Sinaia - Romania - The New Market area
An orchestral concert in the Park - Sinaia, Romania. A mountain resort in Prahova County, the town was named after the Sinaia Monastery (itself named after the Biblical Mount Sinai and pictured here)

We miss the patter of your fairy footsteps... A pair of dainty yet stylish ladys footwear from the Edwardian era Date: circa 1900s

Celmisia gracilenta, dainty daisy
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

You all know her, Fanny Rice quaint, original, dainty, bright. Date c1898

Russian beauty in profile - with golden headdress and a golden shoulder strap on her dainty dress. Date: 1909

Fashions for 1927
A dainty garden party frock of hand-embroidered voile and a beige and bois de rose crepe de Chine jumper suit, sketched at Messrs. Robinson and Cleaver of Regent Street, London. Date: 1927

Coffee Cups
Four dainty sets of coffee cups and saucers from Mappin & Webb. Date: 1930

Dainty Breakfast Set
Impress your friends and relatives with this dainty breakfast set, with lovely matching toast rack, tureen, coffee pot and tea pot, cruet set and egg cups etc. Date: 1930s

Bird on Nellies Hat
A fashionable hat of the period trimmed with a stuffed bird worn by May Ward - the dainty little comedienne. Date: 1906

The Dolly Sisters, USA
Sheet music for Valse Dainty featuring the Dolly Sisters, unknown production, USA circa 1915 circa 1915

Trying a British dainty
French soldier eating Christmas pudding by the wayside; an optimistic portrayal of Christmas at the Front during World War I

A dainty cape, 1897
A smart cape made from chiffon decorated with sequins. The chiffon forms into a ruffle which floats gracefully with movement. Similar capes can also be made from velvet trimmed with ecru lace

Kirks Flake Soap
Kirks Flake White Soap - nothing so dainty or delicate in lingerie, laces, linens or woolens, but what it can be washed in absolute safety with Kirks Flake White

Ladies Driving Costume
A dainty motoring jacket in tussore silk with lace embroidery; from the catalogue of Alfred Dunhill Ltd

Skaters Dainty Foot
A helping hand, and a dainty foot; a dapper chap caresses the foot of a lady skater

Dainty Repast
The dishes of dainty repast were soon in order A group of men and women set about the task of laying out a picnic

Girl Plays Cup and Ball
Miss Playing With Cup and Ball. A dainty young girl having caught the ball attached to a string in the cup looks more than a little pleased

Song of Sixpence 1870
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing - now, wasn t that a dainty dish to set before a king ?

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