Feather Collection (page 30)

Evening Modes for 1929
A device to lengthen hemlines: the train of this grey princess-shaped gown, also a velvet bridge coat with ruffle trim, a lace gown & a green gown with double bolero corsage

Feather-Sellers, Aden
When their ship, the steamship Peshawar, stops at Aden, passengers travelling to India are offered exotic feathers by Jewish traders

Native Indian Myth / 1914
Feather-woman gazes down from Sky Country, where she is trapped for digging up the sacred turnip & sees the camp of the Blackfeet where she had once lived

Striped Toilette ?1885
Costume in vertical striped fabric (see real swatch): pointed waist, deep V neck with falling lace collar, tunic hitched up at one side & trimmed with ribbon

Grey Hat with Feather
A fetching grey & black felt hat with a low flat crown & broad up-turned brim ornamented with a dyed & shaped feather & a jewelled device for holding it

Theatregoer in Big Hat
A woman in a large hat with a broad brim & ostrich feather plume is serenely unaware that her choice in millinery is obscuring the view of her fellow theatre goers

Hat with Aigrette C1913
Blonde woman wears a soft hat with an aigrette, a blouse with a scallop edged turn down collar, a large green pendant & a wrap-over garment in an eastern style print

Hat with Feathers 1930
Black helmet style hat by Rose Valois with a soft brim turned up at the front & left to drape as a flap either side of the face. Ornamented with a red & yellow feather

Yellow Dress, Black Mask
A lively girl in a yellow dress & feather trimmed hat wears a black mask to conceal her identity

Furs / Grunwaldt / Plate 3
Short grey fur jacket with gathered sleeves & black fur epaulettes, trim & muff; grey mantle in fur or velvet with black fur trim & a matching muff. Fur types unspecified

Fur-Trimmed Mantle C1913
A pretty brunette wears a fur- trimmed mantle in a vibrantly coloured floral print & a small hat with a narrow brim & aigrette

Female Type / Frivolous
A typical young lady of 1907 enroute for the shops holds up her ample skirt & petticoats. She wears a feather boa. Feathers too adorn her hat

Red Dress / Paquin 1912
Red tunic dress by Paquin: accordian pleated narrow double-skirt beneath a long tunic cut away at the sides to create a point. N.B bandeau & curled feather headdress

Cheruit Evening Robe
Robe by Cheruit: heavily ornamented corsage & a double skirt, the column silhouette broken by the translucent polonaise style tunic. Bandeau & feather headdress

Mother & Daughter 1913
Tailor-made costume: hobble skirt with diagonal pleated detail on the hips, wrap-over tunic jacket with turned-back cuffs, small hat with large feather

MLLE YANEs GOWN 1913
Mlle. Yane in a gown by Drecoll: round fur-trimmed decolletage, high waistline, draped skirt giving the effect of panniers & with panels of an ornate floral fabric

Casino Robe 1914
Tunic dress with draped tango skirt, translucent flared & pleated tunic with fur trim, beaded corsage en ceour, shoes with cross-over ribbons & a feather & pearl headdress

Military Fashions 1914
The initial impact of the war on fashion i.e a source of style. Military taileur of hobble skirt & 3/4 jacket with flared skirt, Napoleonic collar & cuffs, braiding & epaulettes

Astrakhan Trim Coat 30S
An unusual coat in bottle green wool with wrap-over front & full sleeves. The bodice, pointed cuffs & angular collar are in grey astrakhan. Jonelle of Paris

Conspirators Gunpowder
The Conspirators

Anna Marie Stanhope
ANNA MARIE STANHOPE DUCHESS OF BEDFORD As the Marchioness of Tavistock, wife of Francis 7th Duke

Dusting for Excercise
A smiling young lady in shorts with buttoned falls dusts briskly with a feather duster - a great way to tone up the waist and bust without the need of a gym!

An Arab by Mallet 1683
A portrait of a Mahomet of Arabia wearing a bejewelled turban with feather and a fur- lined tunic and coat

Showgirl Ginette Guy
Mademoiselle Ginette Guy at the Casino de Paris, dressed in a transparent number with pink feather edging

Q Caroline of Brunswick
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK Wife of George IV in her court dress on 4 June 1807

Creation Molyneux
Evening dress by Molyneux

Blue Stocking / 1881
An Italian blue-stocking

Fifth Avenue Couple
Americans in a Fifth Avenue restaurant. She wears a high waisted strapless gown with gathered tunic & panniers, an under-skirt that narrows at the hem & a feather headdress

Maria-Guy Hat / Bon Ton
A hat by Maria-Guy with a very long feather, worn at an angle Date: 1913

Ma & Daughter on Terrace
A mother and her daughter on the terrace with a few toys

Dinner party in an aristocratic French home
An elegant dinner party in an aristocratic French home

Elegant woman in scarlet hat
Elegant woman wears a scarlet hat

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