Skirts Collection (page 6)

Lady with flowers on a greetings card
Lady with flowers and a three-dimensional skirt made of paper on a greetings card. (3 of 3) circa 1890s

Racial Types France
Strasbourg costumes including a bride: skirts with gathered yokes, bodices pointed borders, ornate stomachers, large lace hat or close- fitting cap or toque. Date: 1670 - 1690

Walking Dress 1864
The vogue for short, hitched- up skirts revealing brightly coloured petticoats & boots was originally an English fashion later adopted by the French. Date: 1864

Cartoon, Sheltering from a squall
Cartoon showing a couple sheltering from a squall under a leafless tree. The wind blows her skirts up, giving him a revealing view of her legs. Date: 1916

Autumn Winds 1928
The winds of auutumn blow up this young ladys skirts in a revealing manner, but does she care ? Not she ! Date: 1928

Girl Shows a Leg 1908
A young woman lifts her ample skirts & petticoats in order to check her stockings. 1908

High-Waisted Frocks 1918
The silhouette at the close of decade: skirts have become less full but narrow at the hem, waist-lines remain high. Hats: high crowns & narrow brims. Shoes: high heals & bows. 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

Cartoon, The Fashionable Shape, WW1
Cartoon, The Fashionable Shape, a comment on the changing fashionable style from the narrow long skirts with tunics and drooping feathers to short, bell-shaped skirts, vertical hats and high boots

Swedish Frocks 1927
Rather matronly low waisted dresses: two with pleated skirts, also a two-piece dress with blouson top, an open robe in a bright pattern & a blue dress with a tiered skirt. Date: 1927

Frocks / Red Parasol 1899
Blue tunic dress: 3 pointed upper skirts draped up at the back, gauged lace edged yoke. Grey mohair costume with orange lace bodice & simulated tunic. Date: 1899

Princess Lind Dress 1880
French fashions: princess dresses with tie-back skirts ornamented with embroidered panels, flounces & gauging or in lilac with lace, gauging & a quilted & trained skirt. Date: 1880

Girls Hockey 1890
A group of young women wearing long skirts, hats and gloves play hockey. Date: 1890

COSTUME 1895
Enormous gigot sleeves with epaulettes, large skirts (possibly 7 gored skirts), tiny waists, broad belts, high necked blouse with yoke, huge hats ornamented with flowers. Date: 1895

Women fashions of 1931
Two suits comprised of jackets and skirts and worn with matching hats. Both are designs by Mlle. De Ste-Claire Date: 1931

Evening Dress ?1882
Low cut with pointed bodices, decorative plastrons, epaulettes & trained skirts. Black: checkerboard fabric, jet & diamante trim. White: pearls & artificial flowers. Date: ? 1882

Brown or Blue Dress 1882
Front buttoning cuirasse bodices with 3/4 length sleeves & tie-back skirts with bustles. The brown dress has an apron front & checkerboard border, the blue has a peplum Date: 1882

Blackpool Ballroom
Ladies in long skirts swirl across the spacious dance floor of the Palace Ballroom, Blackpool : skilful retouching gives the scene an authentic feel. Date: circa 1910

Cartoon, Gossiping in the background. The older ones watch the younger ones dance. One of the men is still in uniform, for the war is only recently over. The other man is in evening dress

Paris fashion plate 1878
Silk Christmas and New Years party dresses. Hair arranged high, the front parted and waved, or the ends curved forward in crescent shape on the forehead, chignon on the nape of the neck. Date: 1878

Noblewoman 1390
A French noblewoman holds up her skirts as she walks through the muddy streets of Paris Date: circa 1390

St James Theatre 1900
Theatregoers, mostly women, leaving the theatre after a matinee. A couple of policemen are on the beat. Date: 1900

Court Dress
English court dress stills employs the use of hoops to hold out the elaborately ornamented skirts even though they had fallen out of use for fashionable dress. Date: 1800

Palace Minos Crt Ladies
Interior of the Palace: Frescoes of seated court ladies

Summer patterned dresses 1929
Late 1920s evening dresses and blouse, with fashionable swirling patterns. Date: 1929

Cool frocks for hot days 1929
Women wearing fashionable clothing with either floral or abstract design patterns. Date: 1929

Tennis gowns, 1906
Tennis gowns for sporty women in 1906. On the left a sleeveless zouave to allow the arm full swing in playing. The other has a full blouse bodice with elbow sleeves

Skirts favour a circular cut 1929
Three women wearing casual day-time clothing. Date: 1929

Little girls dancing in a row
A line of little girls in party dresses dance in unison. Date: 1901

From Small Beginnings - the Wimbledon Leg by Fitz
The Girl Who Started It! Cartoon by Fitz charting the rise of the shorter skirts at Wimbledon. Date: 1927

Girls seaside costume 1886
Loose jacket of tennis striped flannel, dark blue triped with red saikor collar and cuffs in plain ficelle material matching the vest, embroidered anchors on the vest and cuffs

Model wearing spring clothing 1937
Model wearing clothing available from Debenham and Freebody. The black marocain suit on the left consists of a belted dress and trimmed silver fox cape

Womens Edwardian skirt with belt 1907
Edwardian women wearing tailored-made simple skirts with high necked embroidered blouses with deep collar and cuffs. Date: 1907

Pocketed skirts 1914
Two models with their hands in their pockets modelling the latest trend. Date: 1914

Advert for Braemar knitwear 1933
Two women wearing identical jumpers in two different colours, with high collar and button on the shoulders. Date: 1933

Blanche Stocker, modelling suitable attire for playing tennis. 1906

Zena Dare (1887 1975), English singer and actress, modelling suitable clothing for cricket. 1906

Two Stylish Belgian girls on the beach with Paper Umbrellas
Two Stylish Belgian girls (both wearing spotty skirts) on the beach with hand-painted Japanese Paper Umbrellas. Date: 1932

Swimwear for the sea and sun 1933
Models wearing three different style woollen swimsuits by Jantzen. Date: 1933

Model wearing tartan skirt and jacket
Model wearing tartan skirt with a black jacket reinforced with matching cape and buttons. Date: 1933

Advert for Braemar Scotlands knitwear 1933
Two women wearing same style different colour Botany woollen cardigans and flared skirts. Date: 1933

Andalucian Dancer - Seville (Sevilla), Spain - Ole _La Gracia. Date: 1911

Wartime fashion article, Britannia and Eve magazine, 1941
A double-page illustrated article from Britannia and Eve, April 1941, reporting on women outfits for any occasion, from regular working days to a week-end out in the countryside

Fashion Illustration, 1966
Fashion illustration by Shuna Harwood featuring dresses by Nina Ricci, Harvey Gould, Yves St Laurent, Louis Feraud and Hildebrand. Date: 1966

Edwardian style 1960s evening dresses
On the left, a long black velvet skirt and white silk ruffled shirt from Harrods worn with black patent ankle strap shoes from Charles Jourdan

Reldan Digby Morton tweed suit, 1965
An Edwardian style suit in oatmeal tweed with patch pockets below a high waistline designed by Reldan/Digby Morton. Burnt sugar straw boater by Moriot. Date: 1965

Womens clothing in 1910
Photographs of women, wearing the latest fashion in 1910 1910

Circassian man carrying a musket, curved sword
Kamtchadal woman in coat decorated with hair, holding a basket.. Handcolored woodcut from Auguste Wahlens Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World, Brussels, 1845

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