Straw Collection (page 26)

Lido Pyjamas 1930
Marcel Rochas designs for the Lido show casual wide legged trousers or beach pyjamas, a blouson jacket, a long gilet or waistcoat & broad floppy brimmed straw hats

Female Type / Beige Dress
Close-up detail of a jacket bodice with fringed basques, narrow stand collar & funnel sleeves. Her hair is dressed in a chignon with a small straw hat worn tilted forward

Green Lady in Cafe 1909
An elegant woman in a long green coat sips her drink through a straw

Man & 4 Ladies / Costume
Composite image based on fashion plates. Man: top hat, pantaloons, cut-away coat with M-cut collar, cane & striped waistcoat. Women: white muslin dresses with puffed sleeves

London Fashions Men 1829
Boy: straw hat, blue D-B coat, gold buttons, shirt with falling collar, neckcloth in green, white trousers. Men: black tights, cut-away coat, D-B frock coat & pantaloons

Striped Cossacks 1823
Straw hat with broad brim & spreading crown, loosely tied plaid cravat, grey frock coat with roll collar, blue striped cossacks with fly front, white waistcoat, yellow fob ribbon

Costume Men Spencer 1806
Top hat, brown spencer with stand-fall collar & sleeves gathered at the shoulder, blue cut-away coat with narrow tails, white breeches & silk stockings, black laced pumps

BON GENRE NO. 20 C. 1805
Une soiree de Coblentz - French emigres flee France, and take refuge in Coblentz just across the German border, where they wait for the Revolution to blow over

Group Afternoon Tea 1904
A typically Edwardian group of men and women have afternoon tea around a table outdoors

Boy Fishing / Riverbank
Young lad sitting alone fishing

Our Little Sailor 1890
Blonde sailor boy in red & white striped shirt, white sailor blouse with blue collar & a red sash sits on a wave break with a toy boat & spade waving his straw sailor hat

EDNA MAYs HAT 1905
Edna May wears a neat, little hat with a high crown, the brim cocked up at the back & swathed with chiffon tied decoratively above her face

Girl Lying on Haystack
A girl in a straw hat lying on a haystack and staring dreamily into space

Rumpelstiltskin / Ford
Rumpelstiltskin offers to help the millers daughter spin straw into gold, but on conditions

Costume / Photo 1904
Audrey in 1904 wears a large flat straw hat, a box pleated skirt & a blouse with bishop sleeves in a pretty floral print. A lace fichu is pinned round her shoulders

Stevenson / Poems / Hay-Loft
The Hay-loft: " Oh, what a joy to clamber there, Oh, what a place for play, "

Man in White Suit C1905
Farren Soutar in a lightweight casual 3 piece suit: straw boater, all-round collar, trousers with front crease & turn-ups, short jacket with single button & braid trim

Picture Hat
Ascot hat: broad brimmed straw picture hat laden with a profusion of fruit, flowers & feathers including roses, grapes & ostrich plumes & secured with a net veil

Pig & Two Admirers 1912
A pig and his two admirers

Social / Britain Vicar 18C
A farmers wife wears a white gown & apron, black pelerine, shoes with pointed toes & vamps, a mob cap, straw hat & pink belt. Her son wears a smock & blue stockings

Straw Hat 1786
A young woman, " Louisa", wears a pretty straw hat with a large, soft brim & edged with lace. A pink hatband & large bow decorate the brim

Boy in Muslin Frock 1789
A young boy, Master Henry Hoare, wears a high-waisted, white muslin frock with tucks at the hem, a blue sash, white stockings & lightweight brown lace-up shoes. N.B straw hat

Girl in a Meadow 1889
A blonde child in a large straw hat with a cocked brim & blue ribbon rosette picks an enormous bunch of meadow wildflowers including poppies, cornflowers & ox-eye daisies

Portugese Wine Pruners
Portuguese vine pruners in traditional straw coats and hats, which throw off the rain like a thatched roof, Douro Valley, Portugal

Victorian Lets Hair Down
Victorian young lady in an emerald green gown wears her long straw-coloured hair down. She holds a book closed on a finger to mark her place

A Magpie Drinking Whisky
An old man in a straw boater giving whisky to a magpie! Date: early 1930s

Horsewoman 1892
Mrs Penn Curzon in riding dress with a straw hat and a riding crop

Sickness / Laying of Straw
Straw is laid outside a sick persons house

BURNING OWD BARTLE
Burning Owd Bartle, West Witton, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England, when an effigy stuffed with straw is burnt as thanksgiving to the Harvest God. Date: 24 August

Modern Zodiac - Libra
The Modern Zodiac: An Artists Almanac of English Society. A woman in straw boater & sailor blouse surrounded by seaside & hunting scenes & a couple out sketching in oils

Rhinos at Play
A black rhinoceros with straw on her face, playing with her baby rhino!

Boy Tickles Sleepy Girl
A naughty little boy mischievously tickles the ear of a sleeping girl with a long straw. A naughty kitten mirrors his behaviour as it torments a bird in a cage

Hoffmann / Flying Robert
THE STORY OF FLYING ROBERT Robert out in the rain with his red umbrella, gets carried away by the wind

Hoffmann / Fidgety Philip
THE STORY OF FIDGETY PHILIP Philip pulls the tablecloth & the evenings supper over himself

Hoffmann / Story Inky Boys
THE STORY OF THE INKY BOYS The white boys are now as black as the black-a-moor

Hoffmann / Inky Boys / Tale
THE STORY OF THE INKY BOYS Tall Agrippa & his inkwell

Struwwelpeter / Hoffmann
STRUWWELPETER Title page

Fairy tale, The Three Little Pigs
The three little pigs build their respective houses out of bricks, straw and sticks

Walking Dress 1861
Shot silk dress, waistcoat corsage, trimmed with green shamrocks & bands. Grey & black plaid paletot bound with black silk over a lilac dress with 2 fluted flounces

Boy in a sailor suit offers flowers to a girl holding a doll
A boy in a sailor suit with a hoop and stick, offers flowers to a girl holding a doll

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