Plaid Collection

Cardboard advertising sign for Exide Batteries
A delightful cardboard sign advertising Exide Batteries - the long life battery. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Striped Bathing Costume
Edwardian bathing beauty in a striped one-piece bathing costume & espadrilles with embroidered linen uppers & ribbon lacing

Clan Sinclair
Clan SINCLAIR a young barefoot woman wears a long tartan plaid

Bon Ton Skiwear
For Chamonix: sensible yet stylish clothing includes gaiters & leggings, fringed scarf, knitted jumper, flat cap with earflaps; belted jacket & plaid skirt

Tartan Accessories 1902
Tartan accessories including silk handkerchiefs, mufflers, neck ties, scarves, tartan cravats, silk knit motor wraps, drawstring work bags & satchels

Sergeant in the Paraguayan War
Sergeant Gonzales, a soldier in the Paraguayan War in 1865, stands at rest dressed in a military shirt and plaid long loincloth. Date: 1865

Boyish look: comment on the masculine cut of contemporary fashions & fashionable physiques. She wears black tie & dinner jacket, fox fur stole, top hat & cane. Date: 1926

Distracted by Butterfly Date: 1944

Brittany, France - Traditional male costume - Douarnenez
Brittany, France - The traditional costume of a man from Douarnenez. Date: 1906

CLOTHES FOR MOROCCO 1924
Man: plus fours, flat cap, knitted vest, plaid or tartan socks & brogues. Women: cloche hats, tubular shaped skirts with jacket or belted tunic & spectator/co-respondent shoes. Date: 1924

OUTDOOR GIRLS 1832
Girls: white knee-length dress ornamented with tucks, black velvet spencer with imbecile sleeves, pantalettes, pelerine with vandykes; red & black plaid mantle with a cape. Date: 1832

CHILD FASHIONS 1931
American fashions: a little boy wears a short & shirt set, the girls wear frocks reminiscent of their mothers. The eldest girl wears a shirt & tie with a skirt & jacket. Date: 1931

MADRAS CHECK FROCK 1940S
A young woman, wearing a madras check dress with short puff sleeves, paints her nails. Date: 1940s

Girls Plaid Dress 1930S
A tailored dress for a teenage girl cut in panels to make clever use of the plaid fabric. Worn with a plain fabric Peter Pan collar & geometric belt. Date: 1930s

Danish Schoolgirls 1903
Two Danish schoolgirls wear double-breasted coats (one with plaid cuffs), woollie scarves & lace up boots. One wears a peaked cap the other a flat straw hat. Date: 1903

Pin-Up in Shorts 1950S
A smiling blonde girl poses on a striped towel wearing shorts, her boyfriends checked shirt with the sleeves rolled up & high heeled, peep-toe mules. She holds a straw hat. Date: 1950s

Viyella Nightwear 1890S
Nightgown with a shirt front, bishop sleeves & broderie anglaise, plaid night dress with flounce & striped bed jacket, dressing gown with quilted detail & stand collar

BOY IN FROCK 1850S
A small child (probably a boy) wears a tartan costume of short skirt & short sleeved bodice with shaped basque, lace tucker & narrow ribbon trim & shoes with ankle straps Date: 1850s

Evening gown and bodice by Elsa Schiaparelli
Illustration of an evening gown and bodice by Elsa Schiaparelli, on a fashion page by Winifred Lewis. The outfit is described as

A young boy sitting on a stool
A watercolour painting of a young boy seated on a four-legged stool by Raymond Sheppard

Fur Coat & Hat 1930S
A diagonal plaid / check dress worn with a 3/4 length coat in grey fur & a tall, brimless hat with a flared crown trimmed in the same fur

Pin-Up & Autumn Leaves
Cheesy blonde, grinning insanely, sweeps autumn leaves with a besom broom, wearing nothing more than a short checked shirt, belt & white knickers

A Little Irish Colleen With an Oul Plaid Shawl - a view of an Irish colleen and male tinker on a road. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Backless sun dress from Harvey Nichols, 1934
Two views of a backless sun dress in uncrushable cotton showing a broken plaid and check design in a variety of pastel colours, worn with a snappy little coat. Date: 1934

Polonaise Dresses 1882
Polonaise dresses: cross-over bodice, horizontal drapery & loosely pleated skirt with tucks & bow; bodice with velvet collar & cuffs & plaid under-skirt. Date: 1882

Girl on Rock 1950S
Fifties brunette, standing atop a barnacle encrusted rock in the sea, recreates the Birth of Venus wearing a plaid swimsuit & hiding her modesty with a towel. Date: 1950s

Mother / 2 Children 1914
Pill box hat, cape with tiny buttons & high stand collar, kilted tunic, sash or girdle, white muff. Boy: smock & shorts. Girl: plaid skirt, blouse with Peter Pan collar. Date: 1914

Art Student Fashion 1918
Art School Fashion: a student carrying canvases wears a spotty smock like blouse, large artistic beret, a short voluminous plaid skirt, bangles & court shoes. Date: 1918

Three Frenchwomen in fashionable outfits, WW1
Three Frenchwomen in fashionable outfits. High Empire waists, short full skirts and high hairstyles. Gingham dress: plain sailor collar

Visiting Dress 1899
Fawn coloured dress, bodice composed of alternate panels of lace & plaid fabric, tight sleeves gathered into a puff at the shoulders, diagonal insert of lace on the skirt. Date: 1899

Coat & Tartan Dress 1899
Full length coat, the front sloping away revealing a tartan skirt. Tight sleeves, slight puff at the shoulder. Lace jabot, high upright collar, self-coloured trim. Date: 1899

Fashions / Lefranco 1892
Tartan blouse, gigot sleeves, sleeveless bolero with passementerie. High necked lace blouse, coat bodice with long basques simulating an over-skirt, gored skirt. Date: 1892

Tartan Frock 1826
Black velvet beret with red tassel; tartan silk dress with double vandyked hem worn with a pale grey cashmere manteau or cloak with a cape collar. Date: 1826

Beret with Peacock Plume
Flora A Scottish girl with a peacock feather in her beret. Date: circa 1840

Advert for Viyella dress by Digby Morton, 1941
Advertisement for Viyella frocks designed by Digby Morton during the Second World War. The advert urges women to find time to be gay and that Viyella wears tirelessly and washes like a kittens ear

Wetherall advertisement 1959
Advertisement for Wetherall coats in a variety of houndstooth and plaid patterns - just the thing to ensure elegance on a rainy day at the races. Date: 1959

Studio portrait, woman with Pekingese dog, photo by Edwarde, Southampton. Date: circa 1920s

Scottish inspired fashion, 1915
A new spring fashionable fancy in tartan, the result, The Tatler decides, probably of the popularity of the Scottish soldiers in Paris. Date: 1915

A Scotch Military Suit - fashion for women, 1915
A Scottish military style suit of navy blue suiting and blue and white plaid, suggested in The Tatler in February 1915. Date: 1915

A distinguished Country Gentleman in a very dashing coat and holding a riding crop. Date: 1895

Dutch Fashion Model
A very striking 1940s Dutch Fashion Model, wearing a plaid jacket and floppy hat and smoking a cigarete, whilst leaning nonchalantly on her elbow. Date: 1943

French view of an English Gent in London
Spectacularly stereotypical French view of an English Gent in London, complete with plaid trousers, pith helmet, sinister expression (!) and a background of dark satanic mills!!! Date: 1901

Belinda Belville suit, 1962
A box pleat skirt in blue plaid wool worn with a matching jacket and a white felt cloche hat and white sleeveless blouse, by Belinda Belville

Petit Parisiens 1929
D-B jacket & shorts; gingham / plaid frocks; party frock with high waist, gathered skirt, ribbon trim & cape & a tricolour pinafore with pleated skirt, blouse & gilet. Date: 1929

Alphabet education, 1955
A sweet, studious little girl at Harwich Road Primary, Colchester, with two large plaid ribbons in her hair sits and arranges letters of the alphabet into the words, Father, Mother, Sister, Brother

Costume / Children 1855
Girls: broderie Anglaise jacket, plaid skirt, dress with 3 flounces, pantalettes, open body & bands over the chest. Boys: black trousers & round jacket & belted tunics

WOMEN & GIRL 1852
Girl: pantalettes, dress trimmed with tartan. Brown dress: pagoda sleeves & black ribbon applied in a geometric style border. Blue dress: basquin body trimmed with lace

Winter Fashions 1871
Polonaise costumes (made from 1 fabric only) with double skirts. Plaid: over-skirt cut in long points, short fringed mantle. Black: jacket body with pagoda sleeves

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