Petticoat Collection (page 4)

Lady & Messengers 1560S
Men: doublets, large sleeves with panes & bows, voluminous hose & canions with bows at the knees, or buskins & spurs. Noblewoman: ornate petticoat, feather fan. Date: late 1560s

German Costume C. 1615
Men: doublet with tabbed border, high standing collar, voluminous hose or breeches, shoes with roses, cloak, ruff. Woman: bodice & over-skirt hitched up to reveal petticoat Date: circa 1615

German Costume C. 1650
Farmer: doublet, bag attached to his belt. Gentleman: lace edged falling band (collar), cloak with cape collar, doublet with pointed front. Woman: elaborate petticoat. Date: circa 1650

C17th Dutch Costume
Man: doublet with rosette trim, short cape, breeches with rosettes at the knee, shoes with roses. Woman: decollete gown with a double skirt & petticoat. Date: mid 17th century

Male Attire C16 & C17Th
Landsknecht: a form of decorative slashing. Also garments form C16th & C17th: petticoat breeches, peascod- bellied doublet, jerkins, copotains, cross-gartering... Date: circa 1530

Costume / Townsfolk 1796
A working class woman wears a buffont, a checked apron over a quilted petticoat & skirt draped to create a polonaise. The man wears a bicorne hat & short boots. Date: 1796

French Costume Men C17Th
Farmer: wears his own hair, petticoat breeches, ribbons at his throat & on his uncocked hat. Gendarm: Jack boots, a cocked hat, a sash, gauntlets & plaits in his wig. Date: circa 1690

WELDONs LINGERIE 1930S
Floral print cami-bockers, a princess petticoat (or slip), a petticoat with an opera top & a yellow nightdress with lace edged epaulettes. Date: 1930s

Petticoat Lane / Photo
PETTICOAT LANE A very busy day at Petticoat Lane market; crowds of market shoppers throng the street Date: 1930s

Costume / June 1814
Evening dress: blue sarsnet with crape draperies, short full sleeves. Morning dress: of muslin trimmed with lace, coloured petticoat with fringing & an oldenberg bonnet. Date: 1814

Jovial Party Goers / Sie
Jovial guests at a party. Date: circa 1908

Lady Loughborough as Weeping Willow - Elspeth Phelps
Sheila Chisholm, Lady Loughborough, later Lady Milbanke, pictured on the front cover of The Sketch wearing her costume for the part of Weeping Willow in the Nymphs of the Forest tableau performed at

Lillah McCarthy in Elspeth Phelps -Nymphs of Forest tableau
Actress Lillah McCarthy pictured in a dress designed by Elspeth Phelps for the Nymphs of the Forest tableau performed at the Petticoat Lane Fair at the Albert Hall in 1917

Mrs Morrison-Bell as Oak for Nymphs of Forest tableau
Mrs Morrison-Bell pictured wearing a gown designed by Elspeth Phelps for the Nymphs of the Forest tableau featuring a number of society women

The 1958 Season - Gay companions to sparkling debut
Double page spread from The Tatler suggesting various accessories required by the debutante to ensure a sparkling season! Clockwise from top left

Celanese utility slip, 1943 - WWII fashion
Advertisement for Utility lingerie made from Celanese, 1943. Date: 1943

Night and Day fashions
Night and day fashions from the 1960s. From left to right: A Debenham & Freebody empire line nylon nightdress in which a 15 denier in the colours shown is mounted over a toning 30

White pique dress from Horrockses
A white pique dress from Horrockses. The full skirt is supported by a stiffened new petticoat, shoe-string shoulder straps and neckline edging are of narrow fondant pink cotton

Finding Nemo. Saltburn by the Sea 1970s 1970s

Woman in revolutionary fancy dress.. Lithograph with pochoir stencil handcolouring from Our Fancy Dress Costumes, Paris, 1928

French merchant, 16th century, in yellow robes with green waistcoat, with sword and dagger.. From a manuscript given to Louise of Savoy by the brotherhood of Notre-Dame-du-Puy d Amiens

French peasant farmer, 14th century.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834

Woman in a chiffon dress, and tall striped taffeta hat called the Theodore.. Handcolored lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885

Woman in bottle-green petticoat and felt hat. Man in grey riding coat.. Handcolored lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885

Woman in puce taffeta caraco over a petticoat of pink taffeta.. Handcolored lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885

Woman wearing an English-style dress with peasant
Woman in pierrot, pouf bonnet, apple green petticoat, with Jeannette ribbons on her shoes.. Handcolored lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset

Female dance student, Paris, 19th century.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from Tradeswomen of Paris, Paris, 1823

Biscuit or cookie seller, Paris, early 19th century.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from Tradeswomen of Paris, Paris, 1823

Female cook, Paris, early 19th century.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from Tradeswomen of Paris, Paris, 1823

Costume of Cherbourg The bonnet has short papillon wings
Costume of Cherbourg. The bonnet has short papillon wings.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux, 1827/1885

French woman wearing the fashion of July 1790.. French woman wearing the fashion of July 1790. She wears a straw hat with feathers and cockades, full wig, fichu (neckerchief)

French woman wearing the fashion of August 1791.. French woman wearing the fashion of August 1791. She wears a liberty cap with ribbons, large wig, fichu (neckerchief)

French woman wearing the fashion of December 1790.. French woman wearing the fashion of December 1790. She wears a liberty cap, full wig, striped bodice over full petticoat

French woman wearing the fashion of June 1790.. French woman wearing the fashion of June 1790. She wears a royalist top hat with cockade, full wig, large fichu (neckerchief)

French woman wearing the fashion of July 1792.. French woman wearing the fashion of July 1792. She wears a hat with flowers and ribbons, wig, fichu (neckerchief)

Indian sepoy of the Bengal Army in helmet, jacket and shorts
French woman wearing the fashion of October 1791.. French woman wearing the fashion of October 1791. She wears a bonnet with flowers and ribbons, large wig, fichu (neckerchief)

French woman wearing the fashion of March 1790.. French woman wearing the fashion of March 1790. She wears a large bonnet over a full wig, huge fichu (neckerchief)

English woman in the fashion of October 1797.. English woman in the fashion of October 1797. She wears a headdress with cut-out sections, a grey gown tied with ribbon under the bust

Dress of the reign of King Edward I, Longshanks.. She wears a green mantle over a purple dress over a white petticoat, with a jeweled headdress

Dress of the reign of James I, 1601-1625, based on Lady Lucy Percy.. She wears a dress with jeweled bodice, double lace ruff, puff sleeves, embroidered petticoat, hat with pearls and veil

Dress of the reign of King George II, 1727-1760.. She wears a pink hat with plumes and ribbons, a tight bodice with lace cuffs, and a full crinoline petticoat

Dress of the reign of King George III, 1780.. Gown and petticoat of pale lilac lutestring trimmed with gardenia or jessamine. Handkerchief and apron of chequered gauze

Cloth Market - Goulston Street, Petticoat Lane, London
Cloth Market - Goulston Street, Petticoat Lane, Poplar, near Whitechapel, County of London, England. Locale made infamous by the Whitechapel (Jack the Ripper) Murders Date: 1900s

Petticoat Lane, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
View of Petticoat Lane, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, looking east from Main Street. Date: circa 1908

Lingerie & nightwear, 1915
A page of intimate luxuries of crepe, ribbon and lace suggested including (top left), a Leewig petticoat with detachable flounces of net and ribbon from Charles Lee & Son, (top right)

Raising a Toast - Can Can Dancer and smart gent
Can Can Dancer (performing on a chair, somewhat precariously!) and smart gent raising a Toast ! Date: 1905

Petticoat Lane Market, London, 1903
Illustration showing a large crowd of shoppers and sellers at the Petticoat Lane Market on a Sunday in 1903. This market, actually in Middlesex Street

Petticoat Lane haberdasher
A haberdasher sets up his stall of goods on a rickety table at the Petticoat Lane market on a Sunday morning Date: 1945

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