Slim Collection (page 8)

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

Laceknit in Two-ply
A lightweight summer sweater with a tailor type collar and sleeve edging in plain garter stitch

Cotton for cocktails
A finely knitted evening sweater (made in Coats cotton) which achieves the illusion of lace

Kestos advertisement
Advertisement for Kestos brassieres giving reassuring and firm support under the most revealing of bathing and beach suits in 1933

Grand PrincessTatiana of Russia
Grand Princess Tatiana Nikolaievna (1897-1918), daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, granddaughter of Princess Alice

Female Type / Pearls 1928
A lady wearing pearls and a dress in the latest autumn fashion

Day Dress / Victor Stiebel
Couture design by Victor Stiebel (1907-1976) for a grey wool " neat-skirted" day dress, with a silk surah forming a larged bow attached to the belt on a slim waist

Sphinx Steamship
An early French paddle-steamer with elegant slim funnel

Thin Art Nouveau Flower
Very slim, very slender, somewhat anaemic, you could walk down Piccadilly with this in your hand and everyone would recognise you as an unquestionable aesthete

Jm Barrie / Young Man
SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Scottish novelist and dramatist, best known for writing Peter Pan

Frenchwoman 1694
A slim-waisted lady of the court of Louis XIV wears a high lace cap, and more lace on her low-cut gown

Creme Anik Make-Up 1928
An elegant young woman using her Creme Anik for whitening the skin

Advert / Abdulla Cigs 1931
Abdulla cigarettes - the romance of reincarnation!

Female Type / Exotic 1914
Woman in a theatrical pose, wearing an exotic dress and feathered headdress

Gibson Girl / Blue Dress
A fashionable Gibson Girl, with hair piled up on her head, long elegant dress and a slim waist

Dryden / Fashion / 337
Slim, long lined blue evening dress with a wide, low cut open collar to emphasise the slimness of the dress

Edward Vii / Slim Uniform
EDWARD VII, BRITISH ROYALTY as PRINCE OF WALES looking exceptionally slim in uniform

Robert Peel(Y) / Dickinson
SIR ROBERT PEEL (THE YOUNGER) British statesman in the 1830s

George Grossmith / Spy
GEORGE GROSSMITH (JNR) English actor, best known for his man-about-town roles

Alfred Deakin / V Fair 08
ALFRED DEAKIN Australian politician

Gwf Hyde / Clarendon / Vfair
GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK VILLIERS, 4th BARON HYDE, 4th EARL OF CLARENDON English statesman and diplomat

Cleo De Merode / Trade
CLEO DE MERODE French actress and dancer advertising a product called Lulu, which helps her keep light and slim

John Tyndall / Caldesi Cdv
JOHN TYNDALL Irish physicist and populariser of science

Franz Joseph / Cillot Eng
FRANZ JOSEPH Austrian emperor as a young soldier

Male Type / Dour Scot 1870
Bearded man wears a frock coat, waistcoat with roll collar, narrow fitting trousers, slim bowtie & lace- up boots

Female Type / Slimline
Slim young flapper type with bobbed hair

Frock Coat Photo
Young man in frock coat, high stand-fall shirt collar with rounded ends, slim patterned tie, pale coloured waistcoat, dark narrow trousers, top hat, cane & leather gloves

Costs / Men & Boys 1926
A selection of single & double-breasted coats including raglans, sacs & slim-fitting models with fly fronts

Coats & Suits for 1926
Coats: single or double- breasted raglans, double- breasted slim-fitting coat. Suits: single & double- breasted including a smoking costume with black tie

Female / Scanty Dress 1928
A slim woman wearing a bikini and a lot of white mink

Bile Beans Showcard
A lady in her slip weighs herself and is delighted to find that her bedtime treat of Bile Beans (yuk !) is keeping her healthy, happy and slim

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