Mannequin Collection

Hazel Lavery in a Lucile gown for Petticoat Lane Tombola WWI
Hazel, Lady Lavery, wife of painter Sir John Lavery pictured as the artist in a tableau staged for a charity event during the First World War called Petticoat Lane

60S Girl / Window
A blonde model in a striped jacket adjusts her sunglasses in the window of a boutique. Date: 1960s

Army Education Exhibition at Eltham Palace: inspecting a German miners dress uniform in the section " Germany Under Control". Date: 1946

Princess Margaret at Dior fashion show at Blenheim
A Dior mannequin curtsies before Princess Margaret in the Long Library at Blenheim Palace as she displays the highlight of the collection, a white satin off-the-shoulder evening dress named Blenheim

Comparison
A portrait sketch of a smiling lady holding a miniature mannequin or figure between her fingers, a happy young man is sharing the moment. Date: circa 1901

Farmer & Company Programme
A reproduction illustration of the Mannequin Parade programme issued by farmer's at the inaugural displays of Spring modes, August, 1921

Shop window display in Central London
A mannequin and a stuffed bear in a clothes shop window in Central London. Date: circa 1960s

Mannequin in window of The White House, London
Mannequin in window, The White House, Central London. Date: circa 1960s

Mannequin, Swan and Edgar window, London
Mannequin in Swan and Edgars window, Piccadilly Circus, London. Date: circa 1950s

Mannequin modelling coat in window display, London
Mannequin modelling a coat in the window display of a Central London shop. Date: circa 1960s

Mannequin in shop window, Central London
Mannequin in a fashion retailers window in Central London. Date: circa 1950s

Jaeger window display, West End of London
A Jaeger clothing store window display in Londons West End. Date: circa 1950s

Mannequins in Aquascutum window, London
Mannequins in the window of Aquascutum, Regent Street, London. Date: circa 1960s

Mannequin in Aquascutum window, London
Mannequin in Aquascutums window, Regent Street, London. Date: circa 1950s

"A Mere Man, This Dress Question. I should be swathing, draping
" A Mere Man, This Dress Question. I should be swathing, draping and designing in diaphanous chiffons@A flamboyant dress designer admires his work. Date: 1929

Maya - a mannequin for Reville s
Maya, the professional name of Messrs. Revilles most famous mannequin, who was, according to The Sphere, a member of an old Russian noble family exiled by the Bolsheviks

Midnight Dress Parade Party
A Midnight Dress Parade party, a new society amusement in 1933. The group admiring a mannequin modelling a white evening dress include a number of important figures in the world of fashion and design

The Story of a Dress - Christian Dior
Double page spread from The Sketch drawn by Francis Marshall documenting the different stages of a Christian Dior dress. Top left the dress is designed by Dior himself while top right shows a

Susan Bligh
Susan Rachel Bligh (1916-1983), daughter of Noel Bligh (son of the 8th Earl of Darnley) out in London in 1938. She worked as a mannequin (model)

The Tallien Costume, finishing touches to a new fashion
The Tallien costume, so called after the famous Directoire beauty, Mme. Tallien, the latest fashion from Paris. A model being fitted with the style at the salon of Doeillet. Date: 1912

Londons drapers 1900
Busy work room in a drapers in London. Date: 1900

SHOPPING FOR BONNETS
Judging from Appearance, a canny shop assistant infers that a bonnet being tried on by the wife takes years off her age by mistaking her for her husbands daughter. Date: 1828

Mannequins with blue jeans on a clothes stall, Ludlow Market
Two mannaquins with blue jeans on a clothes stall at Ludlow Market, Shropshire, England Date: 2018

A mannequin with blue jeans on a clothes stall, Ludlow
A mannequin with blue jeans on a clothes stall at Ludlow Market, Shropshire, England Date: 2018

Elizabeth Ponsonby
Miss Elizabeth Ponsonby (later the Hon. Mrs Dennis Pelly), one of the Bright Young Things of the 1920s, and daughter of Arthur Ponsonby a senior minister in the Labour government

Trainee Hairdresser
A male hairdresser learning to cut hair on a very realistic mannequin. Date: early 1930s

Air raid on Oxford Street
The front cover of The Bystander features a shop assistant rescuing two mannequins after an Oxford Street department store is hit by a Luftwaffe bombing raid

The Eton Crop
" The Eton Crop - beloved of the moderns, detested by the old." Worn here by a Lucien Lelong mannequin. 1927

Mrs William Tudor Wilkinson aka Dolores by Olive Snell
Dolores, born Kathleen Rose, portrayed by Olive Snell in The Tatler. She was star of the Ziegfeld Follies and a leading mannequin working for designers including Lucile

Debutante dress show 1939
Society girls as amateur mannequins at Dorothy Laws dress show in March 1939. From left to right, the group shows Miss Anne Nettlefold, Miss Joan O Malley, Miss Muriel Cunningham, Miss Pamela Stokes

The Mannequin Who Made The Most Of It, by H. M. Bateman
A humorous illustration showing a fashion mannequin taking to the catwalk, entrancing all the audience. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch

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

Molyneuxs famous Eastern mannequin Sumurun in a dance fro
Frocks and Feminity - Edward Molyneuxs famous Eastern mannequin Sumurun in a dance frock displayed at the Daily Express Womens Exhibition at Olympia, London, 1923

Forecast of fashion for spring 1914
Fashion based on M. Gavaults comedy, Le Mannequin, in Paris, showing actresses Mlle. Ducouret and Mlle. Magde Lanzy are shown in the posed photographs wearing dresses from the play

Hildred, a mannequin for Lucile
One of Luciles famous models. Lady Lucy Duff Gordon (aka Lucile) was famous for employing a band of mannequins at her salon and for introducing the mannequin parade for her customers

Margot, lead mannequin for Lucile
Margot, the chief mannequin at the salon of Lucile, aka Lady Lucy Duff Gordon in the 1920s. One newspaper described her thus

Jacques Griffe outfit - and dog, 1950
Sally, the star mannequin of French designer, Jacques Griffe, hides a little dog in the vast pocket of a tightly belted beige wool jacket

Sketch cover - the making of a mannequin
Front cover of The Sketch magazine showing four living models and one inanimate one. It comments that, the inanimate mannequin, who acts as teacher, and heads the procession

A Humourist in France - An elopement - a man carrying away a clothes mannequin. Date: 1904

Fashionable costume with jacket. Made in 1896 for Lovisa Ter
Fashionable costume with jacket was made in 1896 for Lovisa Tervala, the 21 years old daughter of Tervala fram in Kuhmoinen. Se had woven the fabric herself on a weaving course i 1893

Costume of a matron of Pernio. Reconstruction. Finland
Costume of a matron of Pernio. Reconstruction based on a remains from the tomb of Cemetery of Pernio. 12th century. National Museum of Finland. Helsinki

Vaira Vike-Freiberga (born 1937). Sixth President of Latvia and the first female President of Latvia. She was elected President of Latvia in 1999 and re-elected in 2003

Slovak man. 1850-1890
Slovak man, 1850-1890. From Krakovany, Nyitra county. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Mannequin of a young wife from Jaszsag, 1890s. Hungary
Young wife from a market town. Jaszsag, Hungary, 1890s. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Traditional costume of Matyo man. Mannequin. 1900-1910. Hung
Traditional costume of Matyo man. From Mezokovesd, Borsod county. 1900-1910. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Paloc young girl in festive winter church clothes. 1870. Hun
Young girl in festive winter church clothes. 1870. From Paloc Nogradmarcal, Nograd. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Saxon girl, 1892. Romania
Traditional dress of a saxon girl. 1892. From Transylvania (Romania). Szelindek, Szeben county. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Woman police officer in street, London
Woman police officer (Aileen Dunseath) walking along a busy shopping street, London. Date: 1967

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