Plumes Gallery

Edwardian hats using floral decorations 1909

Three Edwardian women wearing highly decorative spring hats in different styles with floral designs. (left) Toque hat is made of entirely of small flowers in three shades in the nid d'abeille shape, ver popular at the time, finished with a side loops of ribbon velvet. (middle) Leghorn straw hat with moderate brim and high crown, with three pastel coloured feathers trimming it, the brim is surrounded with pompadour roses in the same tone. (right) Black trimmed hat with roses and foliage, through which ribbon velvet in a lovely shade of hussar blue is cleverly threaded.
1909

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Mrs Patrick Campbell & Lady Randolph Churchill

An interesting photograph showing the acclaimed stage beauty, Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865-1940), born Beatrice Stellar Tanner (pictured centre), in the same photograph as Mrs George Cornwallis-West (Lady Randolph Churchill, formerly Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill). Lady Randolph married George Cornwallis-West, a man twenty years her junior, in 1900. George began an affair with Mrs Pat around 1909 and he and Jennie separated in 1912. She reverted to her old title of Lady Randolph Churchill and later married Montagu Porch. Picture shows the cast of His Borrowed Plumes, a comedy play written by Jennie. Left to right top row, Miss Winifred Emery, Mr Henry Ainley, Mr Dawson Milward, Miss Stella Patrick-Campbell and seated Miss Annie Hughes and Lady Randolph Churchill. Date: 1914

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Woman in velvet bonnet and long carrick coat with pelerines

Woman in velvet bonnet with plumes, long carrick coat in wool with two pelerines (shoulder capes). There is nothing lighter, softer and warmer than a cashmere shawl. The ladies dress down with heavy, bulky wool riding coats. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Woman in velvet bonnet with plumes, long carrick coat in wool with two pelerines (shoulder capes). There is nothing lighter, softer and warmer than a cashmere shawl. The ladies dress down with heavy, bulky wool riding coats. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Date:

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