Fad Collection

Loch Fad, Isle of Bute, Bute & Argyll, Scotland Date: circa 1907

Royal Playthings
An advertisement by F.Ad. Richter of Fenchurch Street, London for real stone building blocks, as played with by the Royal children

The Cake-Walk and How to Dance It. Date: 1903

The Ju Jitsu Waltz comes to the Gaiety. Date: 1907

How to play the game of diabolo or Chinese yo-yo, 1814. Guide to tricks with the diabolo on a picture held by a horned demon

Three graces in trousers. Three girls in turbans, dresses with frills that reach the mid-calf length and frilled pantalons or trousers. There is something strange about this costume

Peggy O Neill, actress, with Pogo Sticks
Peggy O Neill, actress, with the latest craze, the Pogo Stick. 1922

HOW MANY CHAIRS?
A disgruntled looking woman wearing an enormous crinoline is asked by the chair proprietor how many chairs she is sitting on so that he can calculate her bill. Date: 1859

Crinoline Parachute
A Crinoline Parachute. Date: 1802

South America - The tango is no longer fashionable. A musician specialising in the music of the tango returns home from Europe once the craze for this particular style has passed... Date: circa 1916

The Futurist Exhibition at the Sackville Gallery, 1912
" The Hysteria Wave spreads to art: influence of the futurist exhibition on a Bystander artist". Artist Charles Sykes produced this futurist-inspired sketch

Owner and Staff of a Rollerskating rink
A wheely great photographic postcard of the owner and principal staff of a Rollerskating Rink in Northern England. The floor is marked showing that the participants performed very neat circles around

He used to be A Menace - now he finds himself a fad. Illustration shows a man labeled Foreign Socialist being fated and toasted by high society; a vignette shows a jail cell full of the types of

Movie star Marie Provost with her boudoir doll, USA, 1920s Date: 1920s

Coronation wallpaper, 1953
As a lady watches her special Coronation wallpaper being hung, her husband remarks, I still say you re going to be awfully tired of it next year. Date: 1953

Dolly Sisters wearing the Bulldog collar
The Dolly Sisters wearing the `Dolly Dog Collar or the Bouledogue (bulldog) collar invented by Marthe Regnier, the famous French actress and couturier

The Fashioning of a Fad
Humorous sequential illustration by David Ghilchik poking fun at the merry-go-round of fashion. A smart, trend setting society lady is photographed in the latest fashion - leopard skin - at a Riviera

Bloomerism in 1852
THE PROGRESS OF BLOOMERISM The new fad spreads and is adopted by ladies of all ages

Sockette Fashion 1929
The sockette fashion and some of its exponents demonstrate that there are those who can get away with it and others, who sadly, cannot!

Vogue for Antique Jewels
Satire on the fad for classical jewellery: a woman back from the Grand Tour is laden down with reproduction antique Roman jewellery

Evening Cape / Doucet 1914
Fad for capes: a flounced evening cape by Doucet with large rosette buttons & fur collar; a tunic dress with a draped tango skirt, puffed tunic & a diagonal split

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