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Shrink Collection

Background imageShrink Collection: Lever Brothers Advertisement, Lux

Lever Brothers Advertisement, Lux
An illustrated advertisement for Lever Brothers Limited, promoting Lux, a product for washing dainty fabrics, a box of which can be seen in the hand of the central woman in the picture

Background imageShrink Collection: Lux Advertisement

Lux Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Lever Brothers Limited, promoting Lux, a product used for washing dainty fabrics. The main oval framed picture shows a woman being told that her lace fabrics

Background imageShrink Collection: Lever Brothers Lux Advertisement

Lever Brothers Lux Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Lever Brothers Limited, promoting Lux, a product used for washing dainty fabrics. Pictures include a woman happily washing her clothes

Background imageShrink Collection: Lux Soap

Lux Soap
Lux won t shrink woollens. Why don t they use Lux? Depicts child crying because his vest has become too tight. Date: circa 1907

Background imageShrink Collection: ADVERT / VIYELLA 1890

ADVERT / VIYELLA 1890
Viyella, for day and night wear - does not shrink Date: circa 1890

Background imageShrink Collection: CHASTITY ALLEGORISED

CHASTITY ALLEGORISED
CHASTITY PERSONIFIED A chaste girl walks through the wicked world, shy but confident, while the unchaste (dark-skinned) shrink away, and other girls admire her Date: circa 1850

Background imageShrink Collection: Advertisement for Lux Soap

Advertisement for Lux Soap - Why don t they use Lux? Date: early 20th century

Background imageShrink Collection: Mermaid / Octopus Rackham

Mermaid / Octopus Rackham
The Polyps shrink back from the little mermaid in terror. Date: First published : 1836

Background imageShrink Collection: Advert for Imperial Chemical Industries; shortage of paper

Advert for Imperial Chemical Industries; shortage of paper
During World War Two, the growing shortage of paper from overseas meant that the daily papers shrinked in size. Britains public was encouraged to save every scrap of paper

Background imageShrink Collection: Mens Collar Advert

Mens Collar Advert
The COL MINERVE detachable collar is made out of a special fabric - it does not shrink! Date: early 20th century

Background imageShrink Collection: If you Don t Go

If you Don t Go
If you don t go, we must... In Londons Trafalgar Square patriotic British girls parade as soldiers, to shame any cowardly men who shrink from enlisting in WW1

Background imageShrink Collection: Alice Stretches

Alice Stretches
ALICE SHRINKS AND STRETCHES Alice stretches... Date: First published: 1865


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