Monocled Collection

Carnival Party 1906
The champagne seems to be taking its toll at this carnival party as a pretty young woman gazes wistfully, eyed by a monocled gent behind her. Date: 1906

BARMAID AND CUSTOMER
A monocled gentleman leans over the bar and banters with a barmaid. Date: 1879

Arriving at Restaurant
A monocled gent guides two ladies to their table in a fashionable restaurant, past another monocled gent in dinner jacket with two ladies

Monocled Businessman
Colonel W J Bosworth wears a frock coat, grey striped trousers with a front crease, half boots, a wing collar, a carnation buttonhole & a monocle. Date: 1909

Restrained Tango Dancers
A monocled gent and his partner perform the tango in a restrained and respectable manner Date: circa 1914

Smart Dancers 1920S
A monocled gentleman partners a skimpily but exotically dressed gentlewoman. Date: circa 1920

The Monitor: Automatic but not fool-proof by H. M. Bateman
" The Monitor. Automatic, but not fool-proof: a war-drama in nine fits." This Bateman cartoon from World War One sends up the jingoistic, often misguided

Light and Shadow by Laurie Tayler
A couple leave a hotel after a night out at a supper cabaret. As the monocled and top-hatted gentleman helps his female companion with her coat or shawl

Monocled officer and a Tommy ready for the off, WW1
Cartoon, A moonlit night, France, 1917. A monocled officer and a Tommy ready for the off, by Stephen Baghot de la Bere, RI (1877-1927). Date: 1917

Dancing after supper at the Savoy Winter Garden
Dancing after dinner: normality resumed as the the tango craze, described here as a continental novelty peters out, to be replaced by more traditional dances

Complete Surrender by H. H. Harris
A post-WWI issue of The Bystander depicting a dashing monocled officer escorting a glamorous flapper girl dressed in yellow, furs and a red cloche hat

Monocled Glasgow University Undergraduates, 1926
Photograph of some of the 2000 undergraduates who welcomed Sir Austen Chamberlain to Glasgow for his installation as Lord Rector. Date: 1926

Hunting Toast 1910
Front cover of the Bystander Hunting special number from October 1912 showing a jolly, monocled huntsmen wearing a top hat and hunting clothes. He holds a glass in his hands and is proposing a toast

Showgirl on Pig 1926
She powders her face, paints her lips and adjusts her suspenders while sitting on the back of monocled pigs, presumably symbols of her rich admirers and patrons

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