Groovy Collection

Tony Blackburn with some groovy things, Carnaby Street
A group of groovy people posed outside a boutique in Carnaby Street, London, including radio DJ Tony Blackburn. Date: 1967

Groovy people in Carnaby Street, 1960s
A group of groovy people wearing flamboyant fashions of the 1960s in Carnaby Street, London. Date: 1966

Carnaby Street, 1960s
Front cover of a promotional booklet about fashion epicentre of the 1960s, Carnaby Street, London. A model poses in front of the streets various boutiques wearing a Union Jack waistcoat

London Life front cover, 23 July 1966
Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

1960s tennis fashion
Frilly panties by Teddy Tinling, as worn by tennis players in the 1960s. Worn with a navy banded white cardigan by Maxine Leighton

London Life front cover with Paris fashions
Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

London Life front cover 1966 - This Swinging City
Front cover of London Life magazine, the short-lived but impossibly hip magazine that encapsulated swinging sixties London. Cover heralds a feature inside on the swinging capital by Allan Sherman

In The Height Of Fashion. Grangetown, Middlesbrough 1970s 1970s

Capability Brown boutique, Carnaby Street
Capability Brown, a sister boutique to I Was Lord Kitcheners Valet in Carnaby Street, London during the swinging sixties. Date: 1967

Janet Lyle wearing a silk culotte suit from Annacat
Janet Lyle, who with her business partner, Maggie Keswick, ran Annacat, the South Kensington boutique favoured by some of the smartest young women of London including Lady Herbert

1960s knitting crochet pattern for dress modelled by Twiggy
Front cover of a crochet pattern for a quick crochet suit in Twilleys Stalite wool, worn here by archetypal sixties model, Twiggy. Date: c.1966

First cover of London Life magazine
Very first cover of London Life magazine, published on 9th October 1965 with an eye-catching oversized date line and a photograph of sixties supermodel Celia Hammond photographed by Terence Donovan

Sweet Fanny Adams, Carnaby Street, 1960s
A woman in large sunglasses sporting a feather boa poses outside Sweet Fanny Adams, a Carnaby Street womenswear boutique founded by Henry Moss

Judy Whitehouse wearing Granny Takes a Trip blouse
Judy Whitehouse, a plastic surgery nurse, featuring in London Life magazines What People are Wearing section in a brown suede suit from Trog in Paris worn with a beige silk blouse from Granny Takes a

Jewellery designer Carol Russell in Biba
Carol Russell, a freelance jewellery designer wearing a jersey trouser suit from Biba in a brown and beige check. The necklace is one of her own and was available from Tony Armstrong boutique

British models bring the London look to Paris, 1966
A group of four British models pose for the camera in Paris in the Boulevard St. Germain, 1966. They had flown over along with Alice Pollack and Ossie Clark of the Quorum boutique

1960s fashion in London Life magazine
Part of a fashion spread in extremely groovy, but short-lived London Life magazine in 1966. Man on the left wears a pillar box red blazer by Rodex

Charlotte Rampling in Jean Varon
Actress Charlotte Rampling (born 1946) pictured in her Avengers dress by Jean Varon (designed by British designer John Bates), black and white crepe

Floral cotton anorak by Neatawear, 1965
Model wearing a summer anorak in a cotton floral print by Neatawear, matched with a bra and hipster shorts. Date: 1965

Ricki Reed dress and Ascher silk outfit, 1965
On the left, a prim Victorian-printed cotton dress by Ricki Reed, with pique collar and cuffs, the skirt stiffly quilted from the hips

Emma Booker and Clare Peploe, standing in front of a butcher, both wearing yellow embroidered Afghan sheepskin jackets, which are prototypes of ones they will sell in their shop The Yellow Room

Advert for Wolsey nylons
A pair of legs wearing and advertising Wolsey nylon stockings. They appear to be wearing a very groovy pair of wedge shoes as well. Date: 1947

Mens boutique in Carnaby Street, 1960s
Interesting view (in a convex mirror) of the interior of a mens boutique in Carnaby Street, the fashionable epicentre of swinging sixties London

1960s fashion
Model wearing a lilac spotted Tricel shirt with deep plum bellbottoms. Both by Londonus. The leather flat shoes are from Russell and Bromley and the hoop earrings from Corocraft

Amanda Sturge in a checked trouser suit by Bee Young
Amanda Sturge, featured in the pages of London Life magazine in 1966 in a feature called, What People Are Wearing in Bri-Nylon

Carnaby street shoppers, 1966
A couple of typical young Carnaby Street shoppers in 1966, dressed fashionably to visit the myriad of cool and happening shops lining the street at the height of the swinging sixties in London

Dana렂est wearing a Biba moire suit
Model DanaÙáéest wearing a purple moire trouser suit from Biba with a polo blouse made for her. Her son, Alexander, nearly three, wears navy trousers from Grade One

Lilac velvet trouser suit by Bagatel, 1966
Lilac embossed velvet trouser suit with long lean jacket by Bagatel worn with a navy woollen scarf from W. Bill, sunglasses from Correna and gloves by Morley. 1966

Menswear 1965 from London Life magazine
Two fine cotton shirts, both crisply collared and cuffed in white and both fly-fronted. Flowery one is beige and white with tie to match by James Douglas, 4 guineas at Clobber in Blackheath

Disco trouser suit, 1965
For the young individualist - a disco trouser suit in pitch black rayon Tricel - shell top with polka dots partners with sassy trumpet trews

Silver hood and boots by Martha Hill
Medieval style silver glitter hood and boots tucked inside a party coat both by Martha Hill at High Thyme. Date: 1966

Susan Small and Mr Dino of America dresses, 1965
All-white dress by Susan Small in crisp Arnel sharkskin with tramline stitching that breaks into sharp pleats above the knee. Made to drip and dry and stay just the way it is

Holiday clothes - dungarees and trouser suit, 1965
Suggested casual clothes for holidays in 1965. On the left, dungarees in red sailcloth squared off low at the back, the legs boldly banded with black and white (from Fortnum and Mason)

Sidwall floral trouser suit, 1965
A trouser suit with an Edwardian jacket, turquoise shantung silk blouse by Sidwall worn with a yellow hat from Woollands and beige suede shoes from Elliott Narrow Fitting Shops. Date: 1965

Fredrica trouser suit, Marimekko dress, 1965 fashion
Trouser suit by Fredrica in linen-textured rayon by Manko covered in stylised flowers scattered lightly on the top, closely massed on the trousers

Printed floral linen suit by Tiktiner of France, 1965
Pink, yellow, white chalky flowers on champagne linen blazer suit by Tiktiner of France worn with a cream straw hat by Otto Lucas. Date: 1965

Tatler front cover - a valentine for debutantes 1965
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a model wearing a face framing heart shaped wig from Rose Evansky. Date: 1965

Sea Siren outfits, 1966
Some suggested high fashion outfits for Cowes during the sixties. A dazzlingly striped cat suit in jersey by Jean Varon on the left and a pirate red towelling shorts with white piping

London Life front cover, 24 September 1966
Front cover of London Life, the short-lived but very groovy magazine which captured the style and spirit of sixties London briefly from 1964 to 1966

London Life front cover featuring the model Ro
Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

London Life front cover featuring Ungaro
Front cover by Brian Duffy of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

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