Fancy Collection (page 15)

Advertisement for Selfridges in the Sketch
Black and white half page advertisement for Nursery Rhyme fancy dress characters in the Juvenile Fancy Dress Department at Selfridges

Advertisement for Harrods in the Sketch
Black and white half-page advertisement for Harrods Fancy Dress department in the Sketch, 28th November 1928. Date: 28th November 1928

Little girls in nursery rhyme fancy dress
Six little girls dressed up in fancy dress as various nursery rhyme characters. (At a guess), from left, Mary Mary, Quite Contrary, Little Jack Horner, Little Bo Peep, Little Boy Blue

Womens bustle 1886
Side view of a woman wearing a plain plaited striped skirt and jacket with a ledged bustle. 1886

Man pulling pram and children uphill, c. 1820
A rotund gentleman struggles to pull his two children in a pram uphill as his over-dressed wife follows on behind. The children look like they are rather enjoying this experience

Fancy Dress for Winter sports holiday carnival - radish
Suggestions for a fancy dress costume appropriate for a carnival as part of a winter sports holiday programme. Available from Dickins and Jones. Date: 1928

WW1 - Patriotic Fancy Dress
WW1 era - British Home front - A remarkable set of 3 postcards featuring three women, two of whom are dressed in patriotic fancy dress

The Elements
Beautiful illustration of five women dressed as the elements: Air, Fire, Earth, Water and Geology. Date: c. 1890

Mr Robert Byron as a Victorian angel
Mr Robert Byron dressed as a Victorian angel at Mr and Mrs Bryan Guinesss 1860 party. Date: 1929

Children in Fancy Dress at a carnival or fete
A group of children in fancy dress at a fete or carnival. Among the costumes are a clown, a Welsh girl and a harem girl. Date: c, 1928

Studebaker flatbed truck with men in cage, USA (possibly Florida), and men in the street wearing fancy dress. circa 1918

Advertisement, Mrs Samuel May, Costumier to the Royal Family, Bow Street, London. 1883

Advertisement, Miss M E Fisher, theatre costumier, fancy dress balls, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London. 1883

Advert for Swan & Edgar fancy dress 1928
A selection of fancy dress costumes to wear available from Swan & Edgar, uggestions include Gipsy queen, with tinsel-striped skirt edged coins, Chinese Princess, with orange satin trousers

Society at a carnival in Cairo
Three guests at The Arabian Nights Ball given by Mrs Harry McCalmont at the Ghezireh Casino in Cairo, Egypt in March 1912

Clement Shorter in fancy dress
Clement King Shorter (1857 - 1926), journalist, critic and biographer, founder of The Sphere magazine. Pictured here in fancy dress in the costume of an Indian prince for the Chelsea Arts Ball in

Lady in Fancy Dress Costume - Dressed as a clock / Sundial Date: circa 1920s

Fancy dress - An Egyptian Dancing Girl
Suggestion for a fancy dress designed by Mr Percy Anderson. The dress is of darkest brown gauze over a divided skirt of caf魡 u-lait crepe de Chine

Fancy Dress - WW1 - Group as patriotic national archetypes including Peace, Marianne, Britannia, Liberty and a lady from Japan

Fancy dress for winter Carnival 1929
A selection of fancy dress costumes to wear for the winter Carnival from Dickins and Jones. Suggestions include a basket of fruit, bird cage, cherry girl and a flapper woman. Date: 1929

Fancy dress - young woman dressed as carnival
A young women, by the name of Sadie according to the postcard, is dressed as Carnival with a fancy dress featuring rosettes, a mask and hat. Date: 1918

Fancy dress - young woman dressed as a flower
A young woman in fancy dress costume - perhaps as a flower of the chrysanthemum or gerba daisy variety. Date: c.1900

Costumes from The Dazzle Ball
Attendees of The Dazzle Ball in costumes inspired by dazzle camouflage from the First World War, at the Albert Hall, March 12 1919. Date: 1919

Chelsea Arts Dazzle Ball
People dancing in dazzle costume at The Dazzle Ball, Albert Hall, March, 1919 Date: 1919

Women in dazzle fancy dress for the Chelsea Arts Ball
Examples of women dressed in dazzle fancy dress for the Chelsea Arts Ball at the Albert Hall in March 1919. Date: 1919

B Ward, Christmas 1918, Quex Park VAD Hospital
B Ward in Gallery 1 of the Powell-Cotton Museum on Christmas Day 1918. This was the first Gallery of the Museum, built in 1896

Boy and girl in historical fancy dress costume in a garden. circa 1910s

Mrs Leopold Albu in fancy dress costume, Cleopatra
Mrs Leopold Albu, formerly Adelaide Veronica Elizabeth Burton, wife of Leopold Albu, mining magnate. Pictured in the costume she wore at a small dance she gave at 4 Hamilton Place

Tatler cover - Lady Desboroughs Masque
Front cover of The Tatler, reporting on a fancy dress masque organised by Ettie, Lady Desborough at Taplow Court. Photograph features Rosemary Levenson-Gower, daughter of Millicent

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