Slim Collection (page 7)

The Captain
Harlequin illustration, showing the Captain standing in a typical bragging pose. Date: 1923

Business card design, woman in purple dress
Business card design, depicting a woman in a stylish purple dress with black spots, and matching hat. Date: 20th century

Two women at a tennis club, with a tennis court behind them

Cover design, My Shopping Addresses
Cover design for an address book, My Shopping Addresses, depicting a young woman sitting on a low stool reading a letter

Tall slim cricketer
A tall, slim cricketer with two bats, wearing shinpads

Three women outside a building
Three rather tall, slim women outside a building

Two evening gowns by Sarah Jane 1936
Two women in slender evening gowns by Sarah Jane. Date: 1936

Illustration to the story of Ali Baba
Design or illustration to the Arabian Nights story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, featuring a slim woman in eastern costume, discovering men hiding in jars

Label design with girl in fancy dress
Label design featuring a girl in fancy dress, carrying a bowl containing clubs, spades, diamonds and hearts

Woman in goggles outside hotel
A smiling young woman wearing a woollen dress and goggles on her head stands outside Brighton House, a private hotel

Fashion for spring 1934
Two women wearing floral linen dressses, one with knife-pleated underskirt made from black marocain, detachable cape on the shoulders

Fox Terrier
A Fox Terrier, seated at the end of a sofa. Date: 1928

Fashion for summer 1934
Both women have three quarter length frocks made from printed crepe, frock on right has cowl-like drapery to the edge with knife-pleats. Light weight coats with frills to edging. Date: 1934

Fashion for winter 1934
Three women wearing vivid printed evening dresses, dress on the left made from crepe-de-chine draped neckline and frilled sleeves, tied at the back with a long sash

Advert for Wolsey underwear 1947
Advertisement for Wolsey slimsets underwear showing a very elegant woman in her bedroom showing the foundation garments off to their best advantage. Date: 1947

Fashionable Women

Advertisement for Crane boilers -- female model (M Colbrook) with red roses. 1959

Abplanalp exercise regime advertisement
Advertisement for Abplanalp, a Swiss system of exercise and weight loss, showing a before and after photograph of a man whose waistline has improved considerably in the space of just two months

November - A Temperamental Study by Geta
A lean woman in a red jumper and skirt, lolls in a window seat, kicking off one shoe. Outside, the fading light shows up the skyline of a city in November. 1929

Silhouette of a woman playing tennis

Silhouette of hotel commissionaire
Full-length silhouette of a commissionaire of The Cairn Hotel, in his uniform

Silhouette of a fashionable woman on her travels. A man in the background is lifting a bag of golf clubs

German couple bathing in a pool
To enable Fritz and Frau to cool their portly persons -- a plump German couple bathing in a swimming pool, watched by two slimmer people sitting on a diving board

Advert for Leichners slim figure bath 1928
Keep slim and fit. Safe, simple and convenient reduction in weight - better health - a clearer skin - all yours bedtime bath a packet of new and wonderful Leichners slim figure bath No.1001

Couple kissing on a chaise longue
A young couple kissing on a chaise longue -- " There are moments when we like to be alone". Date: early 20th century

Evening dress by Patrick Perrott, 1934
An evening dress by Patrick Perrott, designed for Liberty, composed of sequins made from the shavings of tortoiseshell combs with rayed straps at the back giving it an enviable distinction. Date: 1934

Two men on a street, one tall and slim, the other short and plump. Horace asks: Got such a thing as a spare fiver on you, old chap? The reply is unprintable. circa 1916

Sketch of a young girl with self-portrait
Sketch of a young girl, with a self-portrait

Slimmer Extraordinaire! Before & After
Before & After - the remarkable results of going on a diet and how it affects ones choice of corset.... circa 1909

Knife-Thrower Assistant
The knife-throwers assistant Date: 1928

Keep Fit Squat
An exercise designed to slim legs and ankles, improve posture and add spring to your step. Date: late 1930s

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Windbag
Windbag. (Boanerges Mowther, Esq.) His rotund body and slim legs casting the perfect shadow of a pair of bellows. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H

David Wright woman with silky patterned hood
Elegant woman with blonde hair and dark mascara, wearing a silky patterned hood and a black bolero-style top. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Young Edwardian woman in a garden, Mid Wales
A young Edwardian woman with long wavy hair in a garden, Mid Wales

Middle aged man with spaniel, Mid Wales
A middle aged man sits on a large felled tree trunk in a country house garden somewhere in Mid Wales, with a spaniel at his side

Young man in studio photo, Mid Wales
A pale young man in a suit that looks too big for him, in the photographers studio, Mid Wales

Young man standing by a gate
A young Edwardian man in a smart suit and flat cap, standing by a gate. He has a watch chain across his waistcoat and a flower in his buttonhole

Music cover for The Real Irish Polkas, as danced at Her Majestys Balls, Almack s, and the Opera Houses of Milan, Paris, Vienna, London, etc

Music cover for Valse a Deux Tems (Temps)
Music cover for Valse a Deux Tems (or Temps), meaning Waltz in Two Beats or Two-Step Waltz, a popular style of waltz in the mid-19th century

Delineator page, January 1927
Illustration showing elegant people on the ski slopes

Miss UK regional finals, St Ives, Cornwall
One of the contestants in the Miss UK regional finals poses in St Ives harbour, Cornwall in a revealing one-piece swimsuit

Forest near Lake Kochel, Bavaria, Germany
Scene in a forest near Lake Kochel (Kochelsee) in Bavaria, Germany, on a sunny autumn day

Young Victorian woman holding a folded fan
A young Victorian woman poses in the photographers studio with a folded fan in her hands. The two-tone tailored bodice of her dress is decorated with buttons and buttonholes

Young woman in 1960s interior
A young woman sits reading a magazine in a typically 1960s interior. The garden outside is covered in snow

Delineator cover January 1927
Front cover illustration featuring a slim and elegant 1920s woman with a swan-like neck wearing a fur-collared coat and an elaborate and vertiginous cloche hat

And So To Bed by David Wright
Illustration by pin up artist David Wright featuring one of his trademark Lovelies wearing a diaphanous night dress through which you can see her shapely legs and pert figure

Patou cape and skirt suit, 1954
A striking outfit by Jean Patou of a swaggering civet lined cape topping a narrow skirted suit

Bear Brand stockings advertisement
Advert for Bear Brand superfine stockings with a slim and elegant lady, wearing a full skirted evening dress, pulling up her skirt to reveal shapely legs clad, of course, in Bear Brand

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