Fancy Collection (page 7)

Fancy Dress for children
Front cover of a Weldons Fancy Dress for Children magazine. Date: circa 1935

Fancy dress - child in pixie costume
A little girl dressed in a pixie costume. The head dress has particularly large ears! Date: c.1930

The Folliettes, performing group of men and women, some of them in fancy costume. Date: 1920

Fancy Dress, 1920s - Woman dressed as a road crossing
Woman dressed in a brilliant costume as a road crossing. Advice to stop, look and listen adorns her hat while other signs on her dress warn of vicious dogs or thin ice. c.1924

Advert, Henry Edwards, Fancy Jeweller and Cutler
Advert, Henry Edwards, Fancy Jeweller, Cutler, etc, of Cheltenham, General Repository for Fancy Goods. 1826

Knutsford, Cheshire, Royal May Day Festival 1902
May Day Festival in Knutsford, Cheshire town, taking place every year, were children dress-up in costumes, shepherdesses, milkmaids and folkloric figures like Robin Hood, Little John and Maid Marion

Sheet music for In Fancy Dress (1920s) Date: 1920s

SIEGE OF PARIS A Parisienne dresses up in a fancy uniform and takes up arms against the Prussians - she is perhaps another Jeanne d Arc ? asks the caption Date: 1871

I m Just Beginning to Look Around Here! 1934

Two Women in Fancy Dress Date: 1925

Woman in Fancy Dress Date: 1925

Girl with Bouquet Cake Date: 1935

Fancy Dessert Biscuits Date: 1935

Fancy Dress at the Royal Victoria Hospital Bournemouth. Large group in wide variety of costumes ? and matron in the centre. Reverse annotated Royal Victoria Hospital Bournemouth 1930s Date: circa 1930

Young people in fancy dress
An undated photograph showing young men and women in a variety of fancy dress, including a Victorian lady, a Pierrot, a sheikh and an enigmatic young man sporting a kilt with paint brush sporran

The Nose Game - Artistic Nose D9, Denotes Refinement. Date: 1927

Euterpean Band, Westerville, Ohio, USA
Members of the Euterpean Band (nicknamed the Rube Band of Otterbein), Westerville, Ohio, USA. Date: 1907

Hungry Peter dressing as the Fat Boy in Pickwick
Hungry Peter dressing for a fancy dress ball as the Fat Boy in Pickwick -- he is finding the breeches rather tight, but then that is the general idea. Date: 1914

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Woman in fancy dress costume as a lotus flower, Fleur de lotus, . Lithograph with pochoir stencil handcolouring from Our Fancy Dress Costumes, Paris, 1928

Childrens Party American Indian and Dutch girl
Two children make their way along a garden path to a fancy dress party in costume. The boy is dressed as a Native American Indian complete with feathered head dress

SUPPER TABLES & BUFFET SUPPER TABLES & BUFFET
Supper tables with buffet. You are expected to help yourself to what you fancy at the buffet table, then take a seat at one of the smaller tables with whoever you fancy. Date: circa 1900

FANCY DRESS 1920S STYLE
Three flappers - a 1960s version of 1920s style! Date: 1960s

FANCY STITCH JUMPER 1936
Jumper in rib & a fancy stitch with a square neckline & 3 button fastening. The buttons look like pebbles. Worn with a tweed skirt. Date: 1936

MATADOR COSTUME
Actress Letty Linn wearing a matador style costume complete with a hat profusely ornamented with taseels, braid & pom-pons. Date: circa 1908

Grace Lane with fan
Edwardian actress Miss Grace Lane in C18th costume for an unspecified part holds a lace folding fan - this item being an essential part of a ladys toilet during this period. Date: circa 1905

BOARD GAME SELLER 18C
A French tabletier: dealer in fancy goods of ivory, ebony, etc, including chess and backgammon sets. Date: 18th century

EVE AS SERPENT COSTUME
Travesti costume by Redfern in which Eve is depicted as the serpent in a green dress with a snakes-head headdress. She sinfully picks an apple. Date: 1913

FANCY DRESS / BLACKPOOL
A fancy dress ball in the Baronial Hall, Blackpool Date: 1938

SOCIAL / GRAND CARNIVAL
Tom and Jerry at a fancy dress carnival Date: 1820

Girl in Aeroplane Hat
A girl wears a fancy-dress hat in the form of an aeroplane, reflecting the current fascination with all things aviatorial. Date: circa 1909

1930S MEDIAEVAL FROCK
A young woman wears a 1930s dress with mediaeval overtones composed of lace and chiffon. The young man wears a very large buttonhole on his dinner jacket. Date: 1930s

FALL / SCHIPPERKE / 1953
CHAMPION FANCY OF SCHIPPLAND Owned by Ludford. Date: 1953

FANCY PORTRAIT 1658
Austrian archduke Leopold Wilhelm occupies only a tiny part of his portrait, a riot of figures which symbolise his interests and activities, to say nothing of his wife ! Date: 1658

FRENCH DOMESTIC BUILDING
A superb example of debut-de- siecle French domestic architecture - a private hotel at Nogent-sur-Marne, with fancy decoration applied to every nook and cranny. Date: 1905

CERAMICS POTTERY 1902
Making toilet, dinner and fancy ware at the Britannia Pottery, Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1902

CHILDRENS XMAS PARTY / 79
Children going downstairs to a Christmas costume party Date: 1879

Sleigh-ride on ice, 1897
A sleigh-ride on the ice in fancy dress costume. Date: 1897

Cartoon portrait, Quite Too-Too Puffickly Precious!! -- OSCAR WILDE (1856 - 1900), satirical portrait. Date: 1892

Masked carnival couple in Venice, Italy
A masked carnival couple in Venice, Italy. Date: 18th century

Washing up after breakfast (2 / 2)
Picture 2/2 - Following their fancy breakfast at their very well-appointed campsite (see: 13127654), the young chap has scarpered, leaving his partner and Mother left with all the washing up!!

A jolly trio enjoying a very fancy breakfast (1 / 2)
Picture 1/2 - A jolly trio (a young couple and the young ladys Mother?) enjoying a very fancy breakfast at their very well-appointed campsite, which comes complete with full china service

Fine Gent dressed up as a Red Indian Chief. Date: circa 1910s

Xmas Greetings - What Cheer
XMAS Greetings - Hurrah we re here. What ho! What Cheer! Date: 1907

Gondolier fends off boat from a wall with his foot, Venice
A gondolier fends off his boat from a wall with his foot, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Tipler pigeons - 01
Black Country pigeon fancier Dennis Fellows, who, in 1990, reformed the Midland Tipler Union, founded in 1912. Its members bred

Dorothy - dressed up as a Star or as The Fairy Queen. Taken by a photograph in St Ives, Cambridgeshire. Date: circa 1920s

A Poule de Luxe relaxing on the seashore
A well-provided-for woman relaxing by the sea with EVERYTHING she could ever want from a hairdryer to an inflatable crocodile

Jean Russell in Fancy Dress as Britannia Date: circa 1920s

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