Suits Collection (page 5)

Group at Surgery Date: 1875

People at Beach Date: 1929

Princess Mary, Prince Edward and Prince Albert
Date: 1902

Prince Albert, Princess Mary and Prince Edward
Prince Albert George (1895-1952) (later King George VI (on left)), Prince Edward (1894-1972) (later Edward VIII (on right)) with their sister Princess Mary (1897-1965)

Our Boys Clothing Company, teenagers jacket suits 1895
Young gentlemans dress or dinner jacket suit (Figure 104), youths dress suit, showing white dress vest (Figure 105), morning coat with checked trousers (Figure 106), vacation suit

GIRL IN SAILOR TOP
A little girl wearing a neat navy blue skirt and jumper with a sailor collar. Date: 1930s

CLEANERS DELIVERY VAN
Achille Serre is THE cleaner for LOndons fashionable crowd, and this is the van in which your gowns and dress suits will be brought to you. Date: 1912

Girls paddling clothes 1885
A girl paddling wears a half Scottish half nautical costume of tartan kilt & Tam-OShanter teamed with a sailor blouse. Two ribbon rosettes are pinned to her kilt. Date: 1885

OBEYING THE LAW
A law-abiding American bather, seeing a notice warning that one-piece bathing suits must not be worn, dutifully takes hers off... Date: 1924

BOYS IN SAILOR SUITS USA
Two brothers in sailor suits from Paola, Kansas. Date: circa 1890

RAJ FASHIONS LATE 1910S
Raj clothing. The men wear cool pale coloured suits and slim ties. The ladies wear white, ankle-length dresses with soft ruffles or broderie Anglaise. Date: late 1910s

MEN PLAY CARDS 1930S
Four men wearing suits play cards around a table whilst two others look on. Date: 1930s

CHILDRENS COSTUME 1795
Two young, well-dressed boys stop to buy cherries from a street vendor. They appear to be wearing skeleton suits which were worn from the 1790s to the 1830s. Date: 1795

DANCE FLOOR FASHIONS
Dance floor fashions include winklepickers, suits and liberal amounts of brilliantine, bouffants, stilettos, chain belts & abstract print frocks. Date: 1962

HAT SHOP DEBACLE
The female attire includes a fox fur stole, over-coat, court shoes & a dress with puffed sleeves made of a heavy (?knitted) fabric. The men wear single- breasted suits & spats. Date: 1930s

EXCHANGE TRADERS 1960S
Traders in spotless suits, ties and the occasional top hat, check the prices of well established British stocks (including Rolls Royce) Date: 1960s

Princes Henry, Edward and Albert of Wales
EDWARD VIII as Prince Edward with his brother Albert (later George VI), and his brother Henry (later Duke of Gloucester) Date: 1905

Girl in Sailor Suit
A girl in a nautically inspired costume of sailor blouse, box pleated skirt & broad brimmed straw hat prepares to take her dolly for a ride in a pram. Date: circa 1909

Woman wearing suit 1930s
A dirty-pink dress with a tie at the neck. Date: 1930s

Bathers on Jetty - 1905
Two girls in bathing suits sitting and chatting on the jetty. Date: circa 1905

Bathers on Diving Board
Two girls in bathing suits one about to dive into the sea from a diving board. Date: circa 1905

MALE TYPE / MEN ABOUT TOWN
Men about town - dressed up for the evening ahead Date: 1927

Three boys in sailor suits on beach
Three boys in sailor suits on the beach. Date: circa 1880

Four couples posing for a photograph in a suburban garden
Four very smartly-dressed couples pose for a jolly photograph in a smart suburban garden. circa 1905

Two Couples having jolly countryside japes - the men are wearing the womens clothing and vice versa! Date: 1920s

Anna Zinkiesen - Johns Noah and Jack Tars! The Chelsea Arts Club Ball. It was Noahs Night at the Royal Albert Hall, with a Noahs Ark designed by Augustus John. Date: 1930

Margate, Kent - Jolly bathers having fun in the sea. Date: circa 1920s

Four Fine Chums
Four very elegant Gentleman pose for their Group Studio Portrait. The two on the right are sporting very precise waxed moustaches and all four are keeping the UK Starch industry in business

Interior of a London West End Boutique, specialising in Gentlemans formal wear. Date: circa 1950s

Fashionable bathing suits of the 1920s
The cover illustration of The Spheres womens section features an array of fashionable outfits. The woman on the right sports an American wasp-stripe bathing suit

Mr Dale Bourne & Mrs Beryl Mills at Monte Carlo Beach
Mrs Beryl Mills in a yellow bathing suit and Mr Dale Bourne, golfer pictured by the Monte Carlo pool. They were both guests of Lady Hindlips house part at Cap Ferrat. Date: 1932

The Cult of Nudity - sunbathing fashions, 1930s
Page from The Sphere reporting on the growing vogue for sunbathing fashions, particularly backless swimsuits - a style that began at the fashionable French resorts of the Riviera

Female diver returning to dry land
A female diver returning to dry land, warming up with a hot drink from a vacuum flask top. 1970s

Elsa Schiaparelli Pour le Sport advertisment
Advertisment for Elsa Schiaparellis first shop, Pour le Sport, in 4, Rue de la Paix, in Paris. Her first collection consisted of knitwear

Prince David, Princess Mary, Prince Albert & Prince Henry
Four eldest children of George V and Mary of Teck, (left) Prince David, sixteenth birthday titled Prince of Wales (future Edward VIII for one year in 1936 and then Duke of Windsor), (1894 - 1972)

Queen Victoria with her four great-grandchildren 1900
Queen Victoria with her four great-grandchildren taken at Osborne House, eldest standing next to Victoria, Prince David, future Edward VIII for one year in 1936 and then Duke of Windsor (1894 - 1972)

1960s swimwear
Model on the left wears a matelot blue stretch Enkalon, hip-pocketed and stitched in white with cutaway sides. On the right a bold black and white Helanca bib-top

MELANCHTON, Philipp Schwarzerd, called (1497-1560). Theologian and Luthers collaborator. DURER, Albrecht (1471-1528). Renaissance art. Engraving. FRANCE. PICARDY. OISE. Chantilly

Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745-1827). Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Oil

Illustration of the Genji Monogatari Emaki (The Tale of Genji) by Murasaki Sikibu. Japanese art. Momoyama period. Drawing. JAPAN. HONSHU. Kyoto. Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation

Raphael (1483-1520). Portrait of a lady. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Painting. Private Collection

GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos鮠Women Undressing
GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos頨 1886-1945). Women Undressing. 1933. Contemporary Art. Oil on canvas. Private Collection

Andrea Vesalio. De humani corporis fabrica
Vesalius, Andreas (1514-1564). Brabantian anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica. Oil

1960s knitting crochet pattern for dress modelled by Twiggy
Front cover of a crochet pattern for a quick crochet suit in Twilleys Stalite wool, worn here by archetypal sixties model, Twiggy. Date: c.1966

Princess Mary, Prince Edward and Prince Albert
Photograph showing (from left): Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood only daughter, (1897 1965), Prince Edward of Wales (future Edward VIII) and Duke of Windsor, (1894 1972)

Duchess of York with her first three children
Duchess of York later Queen Mary consort, with her first three children, (left to right) Prince Edward (1894 1972) later Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor

Ulysses and the Sirens by Wilmot Lunt
Three bathing belles in brightly-hued swimsuits, sunbathe on a rock and catch the attention of a young man in a passing speedboat. Date: 1927

Man in suit and bowler hat, 1962
A smart gent in a tailored Heptons suit, carrying a cane and wearing a bowler hat. Date: 1962

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