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Background imageGarters Collection: Stockings 1920S Photo

Stockings 1920S Photo
A young woman, wearing a fur coat, cloche hat & T-bar shoes, lifts her leg up on a bench in order to reveal her stocking tops & garters

Background imageGarters Collection: Bathing Beauty / Rosalba

Bathing Beauty / Rosalba
Cheeky-looking young woman in a skimpy red swimsuit, sitting on a diving board: Rosalba

Background imageGarters Collection: Lottie Collins music hall singer and dancer 1865-1910

Lottie Collins music hall singer and dancer 1865-1910
Lottie Collins (Charlotte Louisa Collins) music hall singer and dancer. Famous for singing Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay accompanied by a wild skirt dance with high kicks exposing stockings held up by

Background imageGarters Collection: Comic postcard, Two young women in bedroom Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two young women in bedroom Date: 20th century

Background imageGarters Collection: Comic postcard, Woman at seaside with stick of rock

Comic postcard, Woman at seaside with stick of rock
Comic postcard, Woman at the seaside with a large stick of rock (in English and French) Date: 20th century

Background imageGarters Collection: Comic postcard, Two young women in bedroom

Comic postcard, Two young women in bedroom Date: 20th century

Background imageGarters Collection: Comic postcard, Two women discuss romantic encounter Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women discuss romantic encounter Date: 20th century

Background imageGarters Collection: Comic postcard, Two women chatting in underwear Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women chatting in underwear Date: 20th century

Background imageGarters Collection: Maid in stockings and garters embraced by a man

Maid in stockings and garters embraced by a man. Maidservant assaulted by her upholsterer employer. The vindicated servant girl. Le servante justifiee. After Marguerite de Navarres l Heptameron

Background imageGarters Collection: Costume of a French bourgeois man, 16th century

Costume of a French bourgeois man, 16th century
Costume of a French bourgeois man, reign of King Henry IV, 16th century. Handcoloured lithograph after a portrait in Roger de Gaignieres gallery portfolios from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs

Background imageGarters Collection: Costume of Dorlis, Muscadin in the fashion of 1796

Costume of Dorlis, Muscadin in the fashion of 1796.. Costume of Dorlis, Muscadin in the fashion of 1796. He wears a small bicorn cocked hat, long jacket with huge lapels and cuffs, high-collar shirt

Background imageGarters Collection: Costume of an Incroyable

Costume of an Incroyable.. Costume of an Incroyable. Second costume of Lagorille, dressed for a gala. Tall claque hat (bicorn), perruque (wig) suit of striped silk, cravat

Background imageGarters Collection: STEVENSON / POEMS / FLOWERS

STEVENSON / POEMS / FLOWERS
The Flowers: All the names I know from nurse: Gardeners garters, Shepherds purse... Date: First published: 1885

Background imageGarters Collection: Advert for Acaric mens sock suspender 1898

Advert for Acaric mens sock suspender 1898
For gentlemen the Acaric, sock suspender, preventing slipping down of socks! Date: 1898

Background imageGarters Collection: The future King Edward VIII

The future King Edward VIII
Portrait of the Prince of Wales and future King Edward VIII. He is wearing the Insignia of the Garter. Photo by D. Knights Whittome, at Windsor Castle on June 10th 1911, after the investiture

Background imageGarters Collection: Underwear 1928

Underwear 1928
A lady sits negligently in her undies - bra, French drawers or knickers and stockings

Background imageGarters Collection: Dagged Costumes C15Th

Dagged Costumes C15Th
Male & female costumes ornamented with dagging: short cape, jackets with full sleeves or epaulettes, hose & garters, broad brimmed hat; gown with hanging sleeves. Date: 15th century

Background imageGarters Collection: German Costume C. 1615

German Costume C. 1615
Men: doublet with tabbed border, high standing collar, voluminous hose or breeches, shoes with roses, cloak, ruff. Woman: bodice & over-skirt hitched up to reveal petticoat Date: circa 1615

Background imageGarters Collection: Bathing Beauty C1910

Bathing Beauty C1910
An elegant bather in red swimsuit and cap, and a diaphanous pink veil, steps gingerly into the sea. Date: circa 1910

Background imageGarters Collection: Jean de Joinville, French chronicler, 1224-1317

Jean de Joinville, French chronicler, 1224-1317.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834

Background imageGarters Collection: German mercenaries (Landsknechte), 1510-1550

German mercenaries (Landsknechte), 1510-1550.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

Background imageGarters Collection: Swiss costume of a knight with heraldic shield, 1510-1550

Swiss costume of a knight with heraldic shield, 1510-1550.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century

Background imageGarters Collection: Infantry officer and herald from the first

Infantry officer and herald from the first half of 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century

Background imageGarters Collection: Swiss knights in battle garb holding a heraldic shield

Swiss knights in battle garb holding a heraldic shield.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century

Background imageGarters Collection: French man wearing the fashion of August 1791

French man wearing the fashion of August 1791.. French man wearing the fashion of August 1791. He wears a tall hat with cockade, large wig, cravat

Background imageGarters Collection: French man wearing the fashion of July 1790

French man wearing the fashion of July 1790.. French man wearing the fashion of July 1790. He wears a full wig, a redingote (frock coat) over a gilet (waistcoat) and breeches with garters

Background imageGarters Collection: French woman wearing the fashion of June 1792

French woman wearing the fashion of June 1792
French man wearing the fashion of June 1792.. French man wearing the fashion of June 1792. He wears a tall hat with cockade, riding coat with tails, cravat and gilet, breeches, garters and boots

Background imageGarters Collection: French man wearing the fashion of February 1790

French man wearing the fashion of February 1790.. French man wearing the fashion of February 1790. He carries a stick and top hat, and wears a wig, a long striped redingote over a cravat

Background imageGarters Collection: French man wearing the fashion of December 1791

French man wearing the fashion of December 1791.. French man wearing the fashion of December 1791. He wears a large wig, long coat, cravat and gilet (waistcoat), breeches and garters

Background imageGarters Collection: German landsknecht soldier wearing puff-sleeved

German landsknecht soldier wearing puff-sleeved tunic, breeches, garters and stockings.. Handcolored illustration by E. Lechevallier-Chevignard, lithographed by A. Didier, L. Flameng, F

Background imageGarters Collection: Halberdier, 16th century, in plumed hat, gold

Halberdier, 16th century, in plumed hat, gold full-sleeved doublet, striped stockings and garters.. Handcolored illustration by E. Lechevallier-Chevignard, lithographed by A. Didier, L. Flameng, F

Background imageGarters Collection: Patriotic garters, WW1

Patriotic garters, WW1
Miniature portraits of Lord Kitchener and Admiral Jellicoe attached to a pair of ladies garters - fashionable patriotic fervour during the First World War. Date: 1915

Background imageGarters Collection: Patterned stockings including patriotic flags, WW1 fashion

Patterned stockings including patriotic flags, WW1 fashion
Two pairs of stockings with the embellishment fashionable during the First World War on the left, a pair featuring squirrels on the ankles from Peter Robinson an don the right

Background imageGarters Collection: Advert for L & R Wooderson mens sock garter 1906

Advert for L & R Wooderson mens sock garter 1906
For gentlemen the Velvet Grip, Boston Garter comes in a varity of colours blue, pink, cardinal, black and white. Date: 1906

Background imageGarters Collection: So Far So Good - A fine pair of ankles, calves, knees and

So Far So Good - A fine pair of ankles, calves, knees and
" So Far So Good" - A fine pair of ankles, calves, knees and... Date: circa 1910s

Background imageGarters Collection: Advertisement for ladies garter

Advertisement for ladies garter
Advertisement for Le Ruban Tube Bicolore, a garter in red and blue to keep ladies stockings up and show off their thighs -- quick, elegant and simple. 1924

Background imageGarters Collection: French Theatre / Symandre

French Theatre / Symandre
Symandre A character from La Comedie des Comediens by Gougenot. Date: 1633

Background imageGarters Collection: Female Type / Italian

Female Type / Italian
A pretty Italian woman wearing a revealing jacket. Date: 1918

Background imageGarters Collection: Mary Q of Scots / Darnley

Mary Q of Scots / Darnley
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS with her husband, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley (1545-67)

Background imageGarters Collection: Female Type / Plinth 1920

Female Type / Plinth 1920
A smiling young Frenchwoman in her frilly underwear leans on a classical pillar in the photographers studio

Background imageGarters Collection: C16 English Falconers

C16 English Falconers
An English nobleman and his falconer

Background imageGarters Collection: Woman putting on garters

Woman putting on garters



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