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Three women wearing braided bathing frocks suitable for the summer months, available from Swan & Edgar s, department store. Date: 1909
Fashion page adverts April 1937Two fashion adverts for Dickins & Jones, Ltd, modelling the latest short sleeved blouses and Debenham & Freebody, modelling a petit black crepe evening gown with cherry belt. Date: 1937
Caracul and velvet for mourning 1901Woman wearing mourning clothing, due to the resent death of Queen Victoria two weeks prior. It was announced that the general public should wear deep mourning attire until 6th of March
Fashions for March 1864Three women wearing fashionable dresses from Paris for the latter part of February beginning of March. Date: 1864
Fashions for January 1864Women and a young girl wearing the latest Paris fashion. Date: 1864
Fashions for June 1865Three women wearing the latest plain dresses from Paris. Date: 1865
Fashions for July 1865Summer womens fashions, dress, corsage, skirt and pardessus all alike in colour and material. Date: 1865
Fashions for May 1865Fashionable victorian women clothing for May. Date: 1865
Fashions for April 1865Fashionable victorian women wearing elegant dresses. Date: 1865
Fashions for March 1865Latest fashionable clothing for women. Date: 1865
Fashions for February 1865Latest fashion for women, with full dress this season is characterised by marked preference to colour in black, violet and white. Date: 1865
Fashions for January 1865Latest fashion for women. Date: 1865
Fashions for December 1865Fashionable Indoor wear for women. Date: 1865
Fashions for November 1865Indoor winter Paris fashions. Date: 1865
Fashions for October 1865Fashionable womens winter clothing from Paris. Date: 1865
Fashions for September 1865Fashionable womens and girls clothing from Paris. Date: 1865
Fashions for August 1865Fashionable dresses for summer 1865, (left to right) walking dress, plain slate-coloured robe. Morning dress, nankeen-coloured taffeta robe and seaside dress, in light grey muslin
Advert for Peter Robinsons womens spring wear 1910Latest fashion clothing for the spring, wearing a Paris frock with shades of French Voile, bodice is effectively trimmed with self colour guipure and the vest is silver lace
Edwardian women skating 1907A group of Edwardian women skating. Date: 1907
GIRLS PARTY FROCKA fair-haired girl with long plaits wears a pretty party dress in salmon-pink crepe ornamented with frills and smocking. Date: 1930s
SULLEN GIRL IN CAPEUnhappy girl in a party frock, apple green silk cloak with rows of gauging (shirring) across the shoulders & a ruched collar, calf length socks & ballet slippers. Date: 1930s
TEENAGE EVENING GOWNVictorian Fantasie: Evening gown for a teenage girl in red spotted taffeta with ecru lace edging to the square neckline. Gauging & tiny tucks ornament the skirt & puffed sleeves. Date: 1930s
ENGLISH WALKING FROCKGarment described as an English Walking Frock coat with the front borders rounded off, worn with trousers with a front crease, lace-up shoes & a bowler hat. Date: 1907
ANCIENT ENGLISH RUSTICAn ancient English countryman wearing a white smock frock - useful for keeping his clothes clean when working in the fields. Date: 1906
Frock Coated Gent 1909Sir A Osmond Williams wears a frock coat, chalk striped trousers with front creases, spats, a fawn coloured waistcoat with watch chain, all round collar & black tie. Date: 1909
SOCIAL / NIGHTLIFE 1929Three fashionable women in evening dress stand talking in the hallway of an elegant house. Date: 1929
Costume - Loungers 1820Bond Street Loungers wear: strapped trousers, hessian boots, greatcoat, frock coat, top hats, buttonhole, coats cut-away at the front & one man dressed all in black. Date: 1820
1930S MEDIAEVAL FROCKA 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
MADRAS CHECK FROCK 1940SA young woman, wearing a madras check dress with short puff sleeves, paints her nails. Date: 1940s
Woman wearing yellow dress 1930sA yellow-green dress worn with a blue knotted scarf. Date: 1930s
Woman in black dress 1930sA black dress with white lace trim. Date: 1930s
Victorian women and child 1869Women and little girl wearing polonaise with train & sleeves, picking fruit and putting them in a basket. Date: September 1869
GRAPEFRUIT BREAKFASTWhat could be nicer than tucking into a dish of fresh grapefruit for breakfast, with the prospect of a boiled egg, followed by a pot of tea in fine China cups? Date: 1930s
Afternoon Frock 1914Redfern design: pleated skirt like a fluted column, short flared tunic & translucent wrap over blouse / jacket, striped rosette & sash, helmet style hat with chin strap. Date: 1914
Spring fashions 1873Selection of fashionable womens dresses for 1873. Date: 1873
Court gown and evening dress for the opera, 1930On the left, a court dress from Reville of Hanover Square, carried out in shimmering white satin manufactured in Britain. On the right
Norman Hartnell tulle gownA striking frock in white tulle embroidered with pearls embodying the lengthening of skirts which typified fashions towards the end of the 1920s and beginning of the 1930s
Norman Hartnell and dress designs, 1924Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell (1901 - 1979), British couturier and favourite fashion designer of the Queen and Queen Mother. Pictured at the very start of his career in 1924 when he had just launched
Dresses for 1932Three women wearing smart frocks, first is a Dorville model in brown and green tweed, the sides of the bodies green to match the coat
Fashion for tennis 1910Women models wearing fashionable clothing for a game of tennis. Date: 1910
Fifties Summer FrockWholesome young outdoors girl poses in a hay loft wearing a pretty floral print summer dress with square neckline, deep flounce & piped detail. A broad belt completes the look
Frock Coat 1890SA man-about-town in frock coat, pin-striped trousers, high stand-fall shirt collar & white tie, black leather shoes & dark grey spats: acceptable wear with frock coat from 1893
Summer Frock / DoeuilletSummer tunic dress: V -neck & fold-over collar, a gauged yoke to the gathered over- skirt, scalloped hems, a sash with floating ends & shoes with 3 bars over the instep
BOY IN FROCK 1850SA small child (probably a boy) wears a tartan costume of short skirt & short sleeved bodice with shaped basque, lace tucker & narrow ribbon trim & shoes with ankle straps Date: 1850s
Unusually dressed man in Carnaby Street, 1960sA 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
Fashion at the threatre 1912French models wearing clothing for the theatre, creations by Buzenet. (left), Purple and blue taffeta tunic dress, with lace ruffles sleeves
Lady Bridget Poulett wearing Norman HartnellLady Bridget Poulett (1912 - 1975), only daughter of Earl Poulett and society beauty, pictured in a modern setting arranged by Curtis Moffat
Childrens Spring Fashions, 1930sChildrens fashions for the spring of 1930. Top left shows a golf outfit for boys from Rowe (just like papa!). Middle picture is a chic tweed and wool jersey ensemble from Gooch s