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Dressmaking Collection (page 8)

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Chantelle Crop - Murrays Cabaret Club costume design

Chantelle Crop - Murrays Cabaret Club costume design
Chantelle Crop - Original costume design for one of the performers at Murrays Cabaret Club, 16-18 Beak Street, Soho, London

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Staflex Iron-On Interlining for use in dressmaking

Staflex Iron-On Interlining for use in dressmaking. 1950s

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Advertisement for Modern Woman magazine

Advertisement for Modern Woman magazine, gift pattern of autumn frock, helps and entertains. Price sixpence. circa 1927

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Barnardos Barkingside Dressmaking Class

Barnardos Barkingside Dressmaking Class
Dressmaking class at Barnardos Girls Village Home, Barkingside. Date: circa 1905

Background imageDressmaking Collection: China - Young Street Tailor Girls

China - Young Street Tailor Girls. Date: circa 1906

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Caricature of Elsa Schiaparelli

Caricature of Elsa Schiaparelli drawn by Sirra Date: 1935

Background imageDressmaking Collection: German Dressmakers 1900

German Dressmakers 1900
An upper class woman being measured for a new dress in a fashion house in the days when doorknocker hairstyles were in vogue. Date: circa 1900

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Girl at Dressmaker s

Girl at Dressmaker s
A unhappy & disgruntled little girl squirms while an elderly sempstress snips away while making adjustments to her new frock. Date: 1905

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Dress Maker 1804

Dress Maker 1804
A dress maker attends to her customer who is being fitted for a gown. Adjustments are made requiring a pair of scissors as the client admires the handiwork in the mirror. Date: 1804

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Dressmaker 1827

Dressmaker 1827
A young woman looks at her reflection in the mirror behind her while she is measured for a new dress. Date: 1827

Background imageDressmaking Collection: At the dressmaker s

At the dressmaker s
A ladys outfit is given some final finishing touches by her dressmaker. Date: 1907

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Cover design, The Dressmaker magazine

Cover design, The Dressmaker magazine
Cover design, The Dressmaker family fashion magazine, May 1973. 1973

Background imageDressmaking Collection: 1920s sewing machine

1920s sewing machine
A stylish lady with bobbed hair uses a sewing machine on a work table, 1927. Date: 1927

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Russian Dressmaker

Russian Dressmaker holding his bolts of cloth, fabric and lace. Date: 1905

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Albucasis O Abu-I-Kasim Ben Abbas Az-Zahrawi

Albucasis O Abu-I-Kasim Ben Abbas Az-Zahrawi
ALBUCASIS o ABU-I-KASIM BEN ABBAS AZ-ZAHRAWI (936-1013). Tacuinum Sanitatis. ca. 1390-1400. Fol.94. Fabric shop and dressmaking. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Foreign women engaged in dressmaking

Foreign women engaged in dressmaking. Japanese print shows a foreign woman using a sewing machine while her husband and children sit together in the background. Date 1860

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Dressmaking group, Westmoreland Homesteads, Mount Pleasant

Dressmaking group, Westmoreland Homesteads, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Date 1936 Feb

Background imageDressmaking Collection: National Training School of Cookery / Domestic Economy

National Training School of Cookery / Domestic Economy
The National Training School of Cookery and other branches of Domestic Economy, London. The Needlework and Dressmaking Room. Date: circa 1907

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Embroidered bouquet

Embroidered bouquet
From a needlework and dressmaking magazine.Date: 1933

Background imageDressmaking Collection: American Dress Pattern Cover

American Dress Pattern Cover for Simplicity. Two smart jacket and skirt suits in check and red fabric. Date: circa 1940

Background imageDressmaking Collection: European Lady and her Durzee or Tailor

European Lady and her Durzee or Tailor
An European Lady giving instrucions to her Durzee or Native Indian Tailor. (Plate 13 of 20). Date: 1813

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Girls Fashions 1929

Girls Fashions 1929
Tennis dress with box pleats; travelling coat, scarf & hat; high-waisted frock with gathered skirt, D-B redingote; coat with over-stitching detail & a dress with side pleats Date: 1929

Background imageDressmaking Collection: The New Dress by Lewis Baumer

The New Dress by Lewis Baumer
Advertisement for Clark & Co and J & P Coats, manufacturers of silks and cottons for dressmaking, showing a young woman admiring herself

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Dressmakers Shop

Dressmakers Shop. Two young girls, look through the window of a Dressmakers Shop, admiring a robe - avaiable at a sale price !

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Reserved for New System

Reserved for New System
A Japanese lady engaged in a clothes making task in a decorative interior

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Measuring Cloth

Measuring Cloth
Photograph showing a woman measuring out enough fabric to make her own nightgown

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Sewing Underwear

Sewing Underwear
Photograph showing a woman adding trim and finishing touches to underclothes in 1911

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Edwardian Dressmaker

Edwardian Dressmaker
An Edwardian dressmaker, standing beside the pink silk dress she is in the process of making by hand

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Checkerboard Scarf 1922

Checkerboard Scarf 1922
Dressmaking patterns: barrel- line dress with a bateau neck, decorative panels at the hips & a low slung belt; short coat with fringed sleeves, checkerboard coat & hat

Background imageDressmaking Collection: Costume / Dressmaking

Costume / Dressmaking
COSTUME FITTING A well-off German woman is attended to by her dressmaker who makes the final adjustments to a new pink satin evening dress

Background imageDressmaking Collection: At the Dressmaker 1895

At the Dressmaker 1895
A woman at the dressmakers stands in her chemise while the dressmaker takes some measurements



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