Frivolous Collection

Womens Rights / Mockery
A Womans Mind magnified

Cinderella by Arthur Rackham
Cinderellas sisters arriving for the Ball in all their finery. Date: 1919

Roller-skating girl cutting a dash on the beachside boardwal
Frivolous - a roller-skating beauty cutting a dash on the beachside boardwalk Date: early 1940s

Love / Language of Kisses
The language of kisses: timid, frivolous, passionate, amorous, languorous, and - last but not least - voluptuous

Platinum Blonde Flapper
A typical flapper with platinum blonde bobbed hair, green eye-shadow, rouge and pencil thin eyebrows. She wears emerald and diamond bangles, ear-rings & beads

Maria Luisa of Parma (1751-1819). 1789, by Velazquez
Maria Luisa of Parma (1751-1819). Queen consort of Spain (1788-1808). Wife of Charles IV. Portrait by Zacarias Gonzalez Velazquez (1763-1834), 1789. History Museum. Madrid. Spain

The man of today lays aside his frivolous evening dress clothes & dons a uniform - in this case an officer's uniform. Date: 1915

Comic postcard, Middle aged man chatting with a schoolboy or young university student
humorous, fun, funny, comic, card, postcard, british, young, man, men, home, domestic, fire, fireplace, room, o, kay, okay, boy, teenage, teenager, schoolboy, blazer, tie, lighting, cigarette

FEMALE TYPE / FRIVOLOUS
A frivolous young lady off on a shopping spree. Date: 1907

Cartoon, music hall proprietor and theatre agent
Cartoon, music hall proprietor (Harry Hart) to theatre agent (Ambrose Maynard) -- Why don t you send all your Comic Singers to the Theatre, I say? We should know what to do then. 1883

Cartoon, postwar benefits. Two elegant French ladies are pleased that winning the war has allowed them to get out their low-cut dresses again, to dance the foxtrot, to eat cakes and dragees

Cartoon, Trying on a new hat, WW1
Cartoon, showing a frivolous woman trying on a new hat. She complains: How long this war is taking! Her bored soldier husband replies: Not as long as it takes you to try hats on! Date: 1916

Cartoon, Parisian woman out shopping, WW1
Cartoon showing an elegant Parisian woman in a very tall hat, out shopping for fabrics. She asks for a large amount of material for a new hat, in spite of wartime austerity. Date: 1917

Cartoon, Woman trying on new dress, WW1
Cartoon showing a lady having a dress fitting. Her gown has an exaggerated bell shaped skirt based on the styles of the 1830s, ornamented profusely with accordion pleated flounces and rosettes

Cartoon, Concerning sugar, WW1
Cartoon, Concerning sugar. Two French women discuss how little sugar they are using during the sugar crisis, but it still sounds like quite a lot! Date: 1916

Cartoon, Two fashionable French women, WW1
Cartoon, two fashionable French women with their purchases, one of them reading a newspaper (Le Journal). One of them says that its easy to say Howitzers, Grenades, etc

Cartoon, At Deauville, WW1
Cartoon, At Deauville, showing four fashionable French women gossiping about war rumours. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Parrots of Paris, WW1
Cartoon, Parrots of Paris, showing women going about their normal business, with little understanding of the seriousness of war. Date: 1915

Gaby Deslys & her role in the Portuguese revolution
Portrait of French actress and singer, Gaby Deslys (1881-1920), pictured in The Bystander wearing a particularly frivolous stage outfit

The Language of Hats
A French postcard describing the Language of Hats !! Date: circa 1908

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