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Tailor-Made / Fur CollarA tailor-made costume with long-line jacket with a luxurious collar of clipped beaver, a small hat & veil worn on one side & an elegant clutch bag. Date: 1930s
C12th Dress / WomenSuper-tunics with pendant cuffs, long ornate girdles, mantles, hair worn uncovered or with a veil & an ornamental fillet or diadem. Date: 12th century
Boy & Girl / Groom / BrideA small boy and an even smaller girl, dressed up as bride and groom. Date: circa 1920?
Anglo-Saxon LadyAn Anglo-Saxon lady of rank in full dress, wearing a double veil and perforated mantle, embroidered gown over her undergarment. Behind her is a hammock-like carriage. Date: 850
Womens Costume Mid C17Mourning Dress with a pointed bodice & a cloak-like garment with hood; a bodice with tabs, large slashed sleeves, lace falling collar, hitched up over-skirt & floral petticoat Date: mid 17th century
Ladies headdress 1896Ladies bonnet with veil Date: circa 1896
The Norwegian-Swedish Royal WeddingPrince Olaf of Norway pictured with his bride Princess Marthe of Sweden on the occasion of their marriage in March 1929. The Duke of York was best man to Prince Olaf, his cousin
The Duchess of Connaught on her wedding dayPrincess Louise Margaret of Prussia in her wedding attire. She married Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn at St. Georges Chapel, Windsor. Date: 13th March 1879
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on her wedding dayLady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002), later Queen Elizabeth, and then Queen Mother, pictured leaving her parents house in Bruton Street on her wedding day
Britannia and Eve front cover, May 1932Front cover of Britannia and Eve magazine, featuring a blushing bride with a full veil holding a large bridal bouquet of lilies
Britannia and Eve magazine, August 1934Front cover illustration featuring a 1930s woman with piercing green eyes, looking through a veil attached to her black cap, and holding a Guide to London
Britannia and Eve magazine, June 1938Front cover illustration featuring a beautiful bride, wearing a long white veil with floral detail and clutching a bouquet of white roses and gypsophila
Britannia and Eve magazine, June 1939Front cover illustration featuring a beautiful bride clutching a bouquet of calla lillies
Lady Cynthia Asquith (1887-1960 nee Charteris), author and notable survivor of the Titanic. Shown here as a young woman following her marriage to Herbert Asquith in 1910
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as a bridesmaidLady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as a bridesmaid at the wedding of her future sister-in-law, Princess Mary (the Princess Royal) to Lord Lascelles (the Earl of Harewood) in 1922
David Wright woman with black net veilElegant woman with red hair, wearing a black net veil and a low-cut V-shaped black top. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour
Two couples sitting on a cliff topTwo middle class couples sitting on a cliff top. The women are dressed identically, and could be sisters or even twins. Their hats have dark veils which cover their eyes and noses
A man and Woman of Saudi Arabia. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century
Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Woman and childA Bosnian Turkish Muslim woman, her face completely covered by a white veil and her son, who wears some incredible floral trousers and a surprised gaze
Queen Mother at the Royal Cornwall ShowThe Queen Mother makes a presentation to the winner of a Ridden Class at the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show, which takes place at the beginning of June each year, at Wadebridge in North Cornwall
Turkish lady in ConstantinopleA veiled turkish woman in house clothes from Constantinople
The Tatler Bride & home Number, 1 May 1957Front cover of The Tatler Bride and Home Number featuring a bride with unfeasibly sharp cheekbones surrounded by blowsy roses
Wartime wedding groupA wartime wedding group, with the groom wearing his air force uniform. The happy couple pose with their pageboy and bridesmaid
Bosnia - Drinking Water PumpBosnia - Roadside drinking water pump
The Earl and Countess of DalkeithThe wedding of the Earl and Countess of Dalkeith; shown here emerging from St. Giless Cathedral, Edinburgh where they were married in the presence of the Queen
Wedding PresentsA bride and her maid-of-honour admire a piece of jewellery, a wedding present from her prospective husband perhaps?
Veiled Moorish Woman out walking - Algeria. She wears a remarkably voluminous costume with a headdress which folds up from her waist, an enormous bunched skirt and wide sleeves
Saint Genevieve in ParisSaint Genevieve (d.500) - Patroness of Paris. Took veil at 15 after the death of her parents and moved to Paris. Made a personal sortie to gain supplies for the City during the siege of Paris by
Princess Victoria and Prince Olaf of NorwayPrincess Victoria (the fourth child and second daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) (1868 - 1936), wearing a veil or thin headscarf - with the future King Olaf V of Norway (1903 - 1991)
La Belle OteroCarolina Otero, Spanish actress and dancer seen here as La Dominicaine, the very successful piece in which she is appearing at Parisiana
Veiled Egyptian LadyA fine portrait of an Egyptian woman, wearing a very elaborate veil and a small tassled round hat, decorated with crescent moons. She holds an interestingly shaped ceramic vessel in her lap
Fortune teller - ConstantinopleA female street fortune teller in Constantinople
Riding through Constantinople on donkeysA husband and wife ride through Constantinople on a pair of donkeys, with the ladies steed being led by a young servant
Egypt - Turkish WomanOttoman Turkish Woman in Egypt, in a very fine and elaborate costume and leaning on the end of a sofa
Turkish woman with parasolTurkish woman standing with an open white parasol in traditional street costume
Veiled Turkish Woman and child - Sarajevo
Turkish woman from ConstantinopleVeiled turkish Woman from Constantinople, Turkey with a star in her hair and her scarf/veil covereing a bow on top of her head
Turkish woman from Smyrna (Izmir) clutching an umbrella
A Turkish Woman - portrait photographA studio portrait of a veiled woman resting her arm on the back of a wooden seat
Patriotic pro-Turkish card depicting a veiled Turkish woman in flowing see-through white robes, carrying and waving a large Turkish flag
Grand Turkish LadyA Grand Turkish Lady with fine wall decoration behind
Turkish woman with long white veilA postcard from Egypt depicting a Turkish Ottoman Woman wearing a long white veil
Veiled Turkish Lady from a good Family with fine gloves and a fan
Turkish woman in EgyptA Turkish Woman in Egypt
Lady of the Smyrna (Izmir)Elegant lady from Smyrna (Izmir), veiled and seated
Turkish veiled beauty and BattleshipA veiled Turkish beauty in a decorative inset oval, above an illustration of a Turkish World War One era Battleship
Bosnia - Summer evening musicMusician playing to two Turkish women in Bosnia on a summers evening
New meets old - IstanbulPicture from a set of cards issued to reflect the fact that soon after Ataturk took over in Turkey in the 1920s, there was liberation by women from the old modes of dress