Gowns Collection (page 8)

Women in ball gowns and men in military uniforms observing embracing couple at foot of staircase. Date c1900

Liberty print dressing gowns for men
Image from Liberty catalogue Date: c.1930

1950s woman by David Wright
A bold painting by David Wright of a red-haired woman wearing a glamorous black, one-shoulder evening gown, set against a lime green background. Date: c.1950

Royal Wedding 1891 - Princess Marie Louise and bridesmaids
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872 - 1956), younger daughter of Prince and Princess Christian (Helena) and granddaughter of Queen Victoria

The Sphere, Royal Wedding Number 1960
Inner front cover of The Sphere magazine depicting the newly wed Princess Margaret, with her husband, Anthony Armstrong Jones (Earl Snowdon)

Royal Wedding 1934 - wedding dress fabric
A silver bride - the design of Princess Marinas wedding dress. A reproduction of the fabric design used for the wedding dress of Princess Marina of Greece for her marriage to Prince George

Royal Wedding 1913 -- Connaught Fife -- four dresses
The wedding dress and three trousseau dresses designed for the wedding of Arthur, Prince of Connaught and Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, which took place in the Chapel Royal, St Jamess Palace, London

Bridesmaids dress for Princess Maud of Fife
The bridesmaid dress worn by Princess Maud of Fife (later Countess of Southesk) to her elder sister, Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fifes wedding to Prince Arthur of Connaught in 1913

Royal Wedding 1913 -- Connaught Fife -- wedding dress
Women in the workshop of Felix Barolet in Knightsbridge, making the wedding dress for the wedding of Arthur, Prince of Connaught and Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, which took place in the Chapel Royal

Royal Wedding 1913 -- Connaught Fife -- four gowns
Four of the gowns designed for the wedding of Arthur, Prince of Connaught and Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, which took place in the Chapel Royal, St Jamess Palace, London, on 15 October 1913

60, 000 trousseau for Princess Marie Bonaparte
A page from the Illustrated London News with photographs of the huge number of exquisite gowns on display at the gallery of Monsieur Drecolle, all forming part of a 60

Shop window with ball dresses, 1940. Date: 1940

Celanese fabric advertisement, 1953
Barbara Goalen modelling a dress created by Hardy Amies out of Celanese jersey fabric. Date: 1953

Lily Elsie on her wedding day, 1911
Front cover of The Sphere featuring Lily Elsie (1886 - 1962) popular theatre actress and singer an star of The Merry Widow

Drecoll fashion advertisement
An advert for the fashion house, Drecoll, founded by Baron Christoff Von Drecoll in 1902 offering Refined elegance, Inspired colouring, Flowing lines

Dress by Henri Gowns, 1953
A romantic picture frock of grey-blue wild silk. The skirt is worked in huge petals and the rose which decorates the very plain strapless bodice is in muted shades of mauve, pink and grey

Mercia wedding dress, 1953
A wedding dress of pale gold and ivory patterned brocade with a prettily folded bodice and a train cut in one with the skirt. The long, tight-fitting sleeves are cuffed with mink. Date: 1953

Evening dress by Patrick Perrott, 1934
An evening dress by Patrick Perrott, designed for Liberty, composed of sequins made from the shavings of tortoiseshell combs with rayed straps at the back giving it an enviable distinction. Date: 1934

Wedding dress of Princess Francoise of Bourbon-Parma by Heim
The wedding dress design by Jacques Heim for Princess Francoise de Bourbon-Parmas marriage to Prince Edward Lobkowicz at Notre Dame Paris in January 1960

The Tatler front cover, 9 May 1962
Front cover of The Tatler for May 1962 celebrating London Fashion Week and featuring three models (Jean Shrimpton at the back)

Bellville and Cie dress modelled by Jean Shrimpton, 1962
A froth of grey and white shadow striped organza bubbles over five layers of net petticoats. A pristine white organza cape etched with stripe is kept trim by a wide black patent leather belt which

Balmain evening dress, 1962
The return of the ballgown a la Grecque ; a pearly white chiffon dress with flounced skirt and shoestring strapped bodice swathed at the waist and accentuated by a bow of pink satin

Ladies Costume Henry III
Ladies of the household of the earls of Pembroke, reign of Henry III, with a girl : all wear long gowns, the older women also wear mantles, and coverchiefs on their head. Date: 1250

Two Ladies of 1800
Two ladies in morning dress; both wear round gowns caught at the neck, one carries a capacious bag - too big for a handbag, so perhaps its her knitting or sketch materials Date: February 1800

Oxford Uni Queens 1950S
A male student sits and relaxes outside Queens College. Date: 1950s

Anglo-Saxon Women
Two Anglo-Saxon women, one side-saddle on horseback. They wear long house-gowns, and hoods wrapped round neck and shoulders; the rider also wears a short cloak. Date: 750

The Dolly Sisters modelling smart evening gowns of black tulle and jet with satin bodice, USA, circa 1915 circa 1915

Gattle Building, New York
Building, E.M. Gattle Co. (Jewellers) 630 Fifth Ave. 628, 630 and 632 Fifth Avenue; buisnesses include Courtney Corsetiere, Gattle & Co. Jewellers, W

Two young ladies converse
Girls attire: the newest and best. Two well-dressed young ladies conversing over a book. One wears a yoked cambric gown and the other the new lace collar

Zinfandels Cup Day, Ascot
Glamorous women parading in their elegant gowns and flowery hats, mingle in the Ascot paddock on Zinfandels Cup Day

Paris Fashions for September 1859
From left, a highed necked walking dress with one deep flounce at the bottom of the skirt edged with narrow velvet, and five small plaited flounces above also edged with narrow velvet

Two Little Sleepyheads by Muriel Dawson
Two children make their way to bed wearing dressing gowns and with their arms around each other

Couple in pyjamas sitting on a stone step in the sun
A couple in pyjamas and dressing gowns sitting on a stone step in the bright sunshine

Nurse and patients at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing a nurse with two patients in a rest room

Surgeons operating at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall
Three surgeons operating at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall

La Parisienne en 1912
A variety of fashions on view during the summer week at Auteuil and Longchamp

Seen in a Flash
A woman in a backless, bias cut evening dress, typical of the early 1930s, stands in front of the fire, which helpfully casts a light through the transparent chiffon of her skirt to reveal a pair of

1954 fashions
A contemporary suit to take one from morning until night comprising a Middy style jumper, with skirt and golfer cardigan by Wolsey

Formal wear for daytime occasions
A gown of white Everglaze pique cotton decorated with butterflies, perfect for Glyndebourne, country balls and Continental hotels. Over it, a coat of luminous pink

Knitted dress, 1954
It is hard to believe that hand knitting could produce the delicate laciness of this evening gown. A cobweb design of palest grey wool interwoven with silver thread

The Tatler, London Season Number 1956
Front cover of The Tatlers London Season Number featuring a stylised illustration showing couples in evening attire at a society ball

Three Gowns of Classic Beauty, by G. Sacy
Colour fashion illustration showing three glamorous evening gowns

Flounces and a High Waist Line, by G. Sacy
Glamorous evening gowns

Charterhouse School Room
The School Room at Charterhouse School at the original site in Newgate (the site of a Carthusian Monastery)

Maggy Rouff Spring Fashion Show, 1948
Madame Maggy Besancaon de Wagner adjusting the necklace on one of her models, 1948. In 1947 Christian Dior created a sensational collection labelled the New Look

Christian Diors Spring Fashion Show, 1948
Christian Berard, the Surrealist painter, seated on the floor, gazing at passing gowns during Christian Diors Spring Fashion show, 1948

Debs Evening Frocks 1933
Debutantes practice their bowing wearing evening dress. The back view of the gowns are reflected in a mirror. Two of the gowns have cowl necklines

Robes de Soiree 1916
Two models, deep in conversation, show off the latest evening gowns from Paris during the World War One period

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