Vanity Collection (page 6)

Vanity Fair Transformation Playing Card -- Two of Clubs. 1895

Advert for Truefitt & Hill - hair stylists & products 1937
Where Artistry Defies Comparison. Permanent wave, who are not mere slaves to fashion. 1937

Advert for Unwin & Albert fringes 1898
Made of natural curling and waving hair, not affected by the sea air! 1898

Advert for Edwards Harlene hair product 1902
Harlene for the hair, the great hair producer and restorer, World renowed remedy for baldness. Endorsed by Mabel Love, British dancer and stage actress, celebrated as a young woman of beauty. 1902

Advert for Thierry Schram, hair and beauty 1909
Hairstyles designed by Thierry Schram, Paris. Showing women with increased volume to the width and back, using small accessories to finish off the style. 1909

Advert for Marius Heng, hair and beauty 1909
Latest creations for Marius Heng, hair styles with accessories. 1909

Advert for Marius Heng, hair and beauty 1912
Advert for Marius Heng, lighter wigs with accessories. 1912

Advert for Noirat, hairpieces 1910
Advert for Noirat, pre-made fashionable wiglets for evening dress, an exhibition in Brussels, Noirat, won a prize for its hairpieces. 1910

Advert for Noirat, hair and beauty 1912
Advertisement for Noirat, showing women with increased visual width at the back of the head using wavy wigs, also wearing discrete headbands with feather and combs. 1912

Advert for William Cuverville wigs & decorative bands 1912
Advertisement for William Cuverville, womens wavy hairpieces and decorative bands with feathers. Photograph of women making wiglets, with male supervisors looking over them. 1912

Advert for Noirat, hairpieces 1912
Advertisement for Noirat, wavy hairpieces for women with elegant ornamented bands and hair combs. 1912

Advert for Marius Heng, Edwardian hair specialist 1906
Elegant woman with a pompadour hairstyle that would be fitting for a tricorn hat, low crown and broad brim, pinned up on either side of the head and at the back, producing a triangular shape. 1906

Advert for Marius Heng, hair and beauty 1905
Advert for Marius Heng, hair and beauty. 1905

Advert for B Henry hairpieces 1908
Pre-made small wiglets, curls and false buns to be incorporated into the womens hairstyles. 1908

Advert for Thierry Schram, hairpiece 1910
Flexible coiffure hairpiece with a twisted extension or wiglet available from Thierry Schram. 1910

Advert for Universal human hair extensions 1915
Transformations in any styles, extra is charged for light, grey, pale and auburn shades, guaranted only the finest quailty pure European hair used. 1915

Advert for Lanoline soap 1896
Lanoline soap, prepared from the purified fat of the lambs wool. 1896

Advert for Imperial hair dyes 1896
Permanent and odourless hair dye in 6 colours; black, dark and light brown golden brown or auburn, pure golden and brodies hair grower and restorer. 1896

Advert for Marius Heng pompadour hairstyle 1906
Advertiement for Marius Heng, showing an Edwardian woman wearing a pompadour hairstyle. 1906

Advert for B Henry hairstyles 1906
Advertisement for B Henry, hair specialist, showing two women wearing pompadour hairstyles that would be fitting for a tricorn hat, low crown and broad brim

Advert for Marius Heng fake hair grip 1912
Marius Heng, a lightweight and simple to use grip for keeping womens false hair in place. 1912

The Watchers by Tremator
A beautiful young woman sits at her desk and powders her decolletage as fate and a ghostly figure dressed a Mephistopheles lurk in the shadows watching her - a metaphor on the fleeting passage of

Advert for Neige des Cevennes, cosmetics 1928
A recognizable image by Maurice Milliere in an advert for Neige des Cevennes. Date: 1928

Advert for Mappin & Webb unusual presents 1936
If you or your friends are requiring smart and unusual presents.... remember Mapplin & Webb.... Date: 1936

Advert for Floreine cream
Floreine beauty creams and perfumes Date: 1919

Elizabeth Arden suntan kit, 1935
Advertisement for the Elizabeth Arden suntan kit, a case containing Sunpruf cream, suntan oil, Velva Cream, Ardena Powder, lipstick, comb, hairpins and a tiny phial of Blue Grass perfume

Advert for Asprey travel goods 1936
A selection of gentlemens and ladies luggage sets. 1936

Advert for Asprey dressing case 1935
Lightweight cases by Asprey. Obtainable in a variety of coverings and with a wide range of high quailty fittings, made from chinese lacquer. Also supplied unfitted. Special design to order. Date: 1935

Advert for Mappin & Webb vanity items 1934
Mappin & Webb advertising a variety of items. 1934

Ready to go out 1914
Fashionable women adjusting her hat in the mirror. 1914

Advert for Asprey dressing case 1934
Asprey dressing cases Date: 1934

Willem van Heythuysen (1585-1650), by Frans Hals (1580-1666)
Frans Hals (1580-1666). Dutch painter. Portrait of Willem van Heythuysen (1585-1650). 1625-1630. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Caricature of Henry Irving sweeping amateurs away
Caricature of the actor-manager Henry Irving (1838-1905) sweeping the amateur rubbish away from the theatre. 1883

Caricature of Thomas Gibson Bowles, magazine founder
Caricature of Thomas (Tommy) Gibson Bowles (1841-1922), founder of Vanity Fair and The Lady magazines. 1881

Mirror, Mirror
A young woman with a fresh complexion admires herself in her hand mirror. Date: 1930s

Advert for International Hair Co. 1913
Latest transformation in wiglets for women. 1913

Girl admiring a poppy
A girl dressed in imitation of a poppy in a polonaise dress and pantelettes shades herself beneath a parasol as she looks at a poppy with its head held high

Advert for Eugene permanant hair 1938
The secret of beautiful dressing is largely hair dressing! 1938

Jockey / Jh Martin Vf 1907
American jockey John Henry Martin wears top boots, a jockety cap & over his silks a grey overcoat (possibly fly- fronted) with a velvet collar, a large pocket. 1907

GREY SUIT
Earl Waldegrave in pale grey informal suit with single- breasted jacket worn with a wing collar & tie & a straw boater hat. Date: 1912

Evening Dress 1919
La Robe Dindon: barrel-line evening gown with narrow shoulder straps with a long train descending from them - the whole ornamented with plumes as is the high headdress. Date: 1919

20th Earl Shrewsbury
CHARLES HENRY JOHN CHETWYND TALBOT, twentieth earl of SHREWSBURY and fifth earl Talbot, motoring enthusiast who collected hansom cabs. 1860 - 1921

Cartoon, Trying on a new hat, WW1
Cartoon, showing a frivolous woman trying on a new hat. She complains: How long this war is taking! Her bored soldier husband replies: Not as long as it takes you to try hats on! Date: 1916

Children playing in a nursery
A large group of children play at a table in a nursery. One vain little girl, standing near the door, is in her finery. Date: 1859

Ice hockey woman does lips
Never mind the game; a female ice hockey player attends to her lipstick. Date: 1922

Advert for Marshalls & Snelgrove cami- knickers 1926
Marshall & Snelgrove advertisement for cami knickers. Date: 1926

15th Century Lady
Though she carries a devotional book, her sumptuous dress - robes et houppelande historiees - suggest a trace of vanity... Date: 15th century

Bret Harte (Vanity Fair)
BRET HARTE American author, noted for The luck of Roaring Camp Date: 1836 - 1902

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