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Printed Fortnum & Mason dresses for the Riviera casinos

Elegant evening dresses in print crepe-de-chine, among the styles seen in the casinos of Southern France according to The Sketch magazine in which this photograph was featured. On the left, is a dress boldly patterned in coral and gold on a white background. The back is cut up in a point and there is a double sash. Duster-check silk hopsack in pink and green on white makes the second dress which is completely backless but has a matching cape with amusing pleated tabs which stress the shoulder line. Both from Fortnum and Mason. Date: 1933

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Theatre, A Cuckoo in the Nest 1925, Nerman

A scene from A Cuckoo in the Nest, a popular farce playing in London in 1925. Here, the impeccable husband is discovered by his wife and in-laws in a lady's bedroom (equally impeccable) at an hour which is difficult to explain... Names, left to right, Ralph Lynn, Yvonne Arnaud, Grace Edwin, Mary Brough, Tom Walls, Roger Livesey, and Enda Mason

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English tourists see Scots dancing to bagpipe music

English tourists see Scots dancing to bagpipe music on the bank of the Caledonian Canal from Fort William to Inverness, Scotland. Doctor Prosody meets a highland wedding on the Calidonian Canal. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by William Read from William Combe's The Tour of Doctor Prosody, in search of the Antique and the Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles, Matthew Illy, London, 1821

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