Flamboyant Collection

Art Deco lady with lipstick
Striking illustration showing a lady wearing a dramatic black hat with veil, together with red beads and a flamboyant turned up collar, about to apply vivid red lipstick

Singer in Bulgaria
This Bulgarian lady, like her husband and her daughter, is wearing her flamboyant regional costume as she treadles away at her Singer

The Chelsea Arts Club Dazzle Ball
A flamboyant fancy-dress ball given by the Chelsea Arts Club at the Albert Hall. It was based on the principles of Dazzle

A Subtle Competition by H. M. Bateman, golfing fashion
Cartoon by the master of social satire, H. M. Bateman showing two men in competition to wear a series of increasingly outrageous golf outfits

5th Marquess of Anglesey
A montage of pictures published in The Sketch celebrating the life of Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey. Known for his love of jewels and theatre

Advert / Press To-Day 1896
Poster for To-Day, London, a weekly magazine edited by Jerome K Jerome Date: circa 1896

Delineator February 1929
Art Deco style front cover of the Delineator magazine, featuring a stylish woman in a flamboyant orange outfit. Date: 1929

Check Burberry suit, 1916
A dashing black and white check Burberry suit with a full skirt, a coat smart and practical for sport and country wear worn with a matching close-fitting hat. Date: 1916

Poster advertising Quinquina Dubonnet tonic wine, as enjoyed by a lady in a flamboyant green and white striped dress

Leicester Square 1877
Leicester Square in 1877 is still dominated by the flamboyant Alhambra Theatre

Tamara de Lempicka at the Venice Lido
Charles Alvar-Harding and Baroness Kuffner, aka the artist Tamara de Lempicka in a flamboyant picture hat at the Venice Lido

Rouen, France - The Cathedral
West Facade of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Rouen. The church was the tallest building in the world from 1876-1880 with a height of 151m. Date: circa 1904

Panorama of Budapest, Hungary. Date: circa 1930s

Mervyn Stockwood, Barbara Cartland and Eric Heffer
Bishop Mervyn Stockwood (1913-1995), Anglican Bishop of Southwark, with Barbara Cartland (1901-2000), English romantic novelist, and Eric Heffer (1922-1991), left-wing Labour politician

Dancing Couple
Christmas image depicting a flamboyant couple from the reign of King Charles I at a dance. Artist: Albertine Randall Whelan Date: 1910

Marquis of Anglesey in costume
Henry Paget, the 5th Marquess of Anglesey, aristocrat renowned for his eccentric love of theatre, pictured in a particularly flamboyant costume for a part in a production at his own theatre

Blue tit, Parus coeruleus, and flamboyant
Blue titmouse, Parus coeruleus, and flamboyant tanager, Ramphocelus ignescens. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire

Titus hairstyles and cache-folie wigs
Two women at the hairdressers receiving the short haircut called the Titus (after the Roman emperor), while a stylist holds up a cache-folie wig

Toy Theatre, Mr Ducrow as the God of Fame

Pyjama suits at the Venice Lido, 1926
Mrs. Forster, Mr George Thomas and Mrs. Emery at the Venice Lido, all wearing very fetching and rather flamboyant pyjamas suits, the de rigeur wear for the Lido. Date: 1926

Evening ensemble from Debenham & Freebody, 1936
Superb evening ensemble from Debenham and Freebody of Wigmore Street, consisting of a evening dress of silver shot lame worn with a modish coat

Stuart period soldier home from the war on a Valentine card
Stuart period soldier home from the war and looking for love on a Valentine card with a lacy white border. (3 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

Soldier home from the war on a Valentine card
Soldier home from the war and looking for love on a Valentine card with a lacy white border. (2 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

Cavalier soldier home from the war on a Valentine card
Cavalier soldier home from the war and looking for love on a Valentine card with a lacy white border -- I pray you smile on me. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

Woman in clown fancy dress outfit
A woman poses for her studio photograph, looking quite pensive considering the wacky checked clown outfit shes wearing. Date: 1920s

Anna Held in her peacock gown
Miss Anna Held, appearing in Follow Me at the Casino in New York, displaying her spectacular peacock gown with the tail spread. Date: 1917

Unusually dressed man in Carnaby Street, 1960s
A man dressed in a variety of military and historic vintage items of clothing from a kilt to a velvet frock coat and admirals hat, amuses a group of sailors and school boys in Carnaby Street

Colin Baker as Dr Who, with two young fans
The actor Colin Baker (b 1943) as Dr Who, with two young fans. Colin Baker was the sixth Dr Who in the long-running science fiction television series, and played the role from 1984 to 1986

Madame Bertha Trost, an unusual figure in the undercurrents of London society, who went about dressed in Victorian clothes and riding in a carriage

COLONIA, Simon de (1450-1511). Los Condestables Chapel. Star vault. SPAIN. Burgos. Cathedral of St. Mary. Flamboyant

Hawaii - Delonix regia tree
Delonix regia - a species of flowering plant from the Fabaceae family, Caesalpinioideae subfamilia, noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of flowers

Advertisement, Hotel Previtali, London, showing a man in eccentric costume blowing a fanfare trumpet. The Italian-run hotel was in Arundel Street, near Piccadilly Circus. Date: circa 1880

Military road and tree, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Military road (built in 1850) and a flamboyant tree (Flame Tree, Royal Poinciana, Delonix regia), on the island of Puerto Rico, North Atlantic Ocean. Date: 1917

Jessie Preston - British stage actress
Jessie Preston - British stage and music hall actress of the late Victorian era. Date: circa 1900s

Spain. Castile an Leon. Briviesca. Monastery of Santa Clara.15th and 16th century. Built by Juan Gil de Hontanon (1480-1526). Starry dome. Flamboyant

Caricature of Frederick Burnaby, traveller and army officer
Caricature of Frederick Gustavus Burnaby (1842-1885), traveller and British army officer. He stood as a Tory candidate for Birmingham in the 1880 General Election, but was unsuccessful. 1880

Vanderbilt House, 5th Avenue, New York
Located on the corner of 5th avenue and 57th street, New York city, Cornelius Vanderbilt II house was built in 1883. Its ground floor doubled as a drawing room

View from Vanderbilt, 5th Avenue, New York
Located on the corner of 5th avenue and 57th street, New York city, Cornelius Vanderbilt II house was built in 1883. Its ground floor doubled as a drawing room

Henry Ward Beecher
HENRY WARD BEECHER American churchman, of flamboyant lifestyle and hypocritical morals. Date: 1813 - 1887

Henry Ward Beecher Photo
HENRY WARD BEECHER American churchman, of flamboyant lifestyle and hypocritical morals. Towards the end of his days. Date: 1813 - 1887

Bathing party 1927
A group of young men and women stand around their car in flamboyant swimwear. Date: 1927

Carmen Miranda
CARMEN MIRANDA Brazilian singer shown here with ostrich plumes on her head and an enormous ring on her finger; also photographs of Benny Goodman & Alice Faye Date: 1909 - 1955

Mme Recamiers Bed
Parisian Furniture - Madame Recamiers bed: a flamboyant empire style bed with swan topped columns, female figures holding torches and a multitude of lilac drapery Date: 1807

Fur trimmed pyjama suit, 1931
A flamboyant pyjamas suit for the evening with the wide legged trousers trimmed with repetitive lines of fur down to the hem. Date: 1931

The Prince of Wales wears checks & pullover for golf, 1930
Article featured in the magazine, Man and his Clothes commenting with interest on the ensemble worn by Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor) to play golf

France. Dieppe. Saint-Jacques Church
FRANCE. Dieppe. Saint-Jacques Church. Flamboyant gothic. Architecture

Belgium. Bruges. City Hall
BELGIUM. Bruges. Inside of the Gothic Hall (Gotische Zaal) of the City Hall (Stadhuis). View of the hanging wood dome. 1376-1421. Flamboyant gothic. Architecture

SOME wear in England! by Katie Mayer
A fashionable woman in a checked dress and flamboyant hat checks her face in a compact mirror - her short skirt and matching accessories quite the thing for 1918. Date: 1918

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