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Two gentlemen at the Opera Ball, 1835
Fops in coat with tails, waistcoat, tight pants and white stockings. People in fancy dress and masks behind them. At the Opera Ball 1835. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Mother and child playing in the Champs-Elysees, 1832
Woman and child with hoop playing in the park. In the Champs Elysees, 1832. She wears a lace collar, dress with leg of mutton sleeves, bonnet and muff

A winter stroll in the Luxembourg Gardens, 1830. Woman in large bonnet with plumes, dress with sleeves en beret trimmed with velvet, high lace collar, and fur scarf. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Woman in tea gown, sheath dress and turban, 1912
Woman in tea gown of aubergine velvet with peacock-eye pattern, grey sheath dress and turban with plume. Robe de The en velours aubergine ocelle d oeils de paon, fourreau gris d acier

Woman in visiting outfit with fur muff giving sweets to a child. Bonbons from the Comte du Plessis-Praslin. Toilette de visite, bonbons du Marechal, duc de Praslin

St Gabriels Childrens Home, Westgate-on-Sea - Schoolroom
Windows open wide in the schoolroom of St Gabriels convalescent home and open air school, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. Date: Date unknown

Music cover, Tenderly, Joan Crawford
Music cover, Tenderly (from the MGM film Torch Song), Joan Crawford. Lyrics by Jack Lawrence, music by Walter Gross. 1947

Beach pyjamas from Robinson and Cleaver
A sunsuit in printed Irish linen featuring a bold cretonne design, comprised of trousers, coat and a matching parasol. Available from Robinson

Beach and garden suits from Liberty, 1931
On the left, a pyjama suit of Japanese silk enriched with stencilling and on the right, a three-piece outfit also in Japanese silk. Date: 1931

Riviera fashion on the Victoria Embankment, London
Woman in a wide-brimmed hat and sleeveless outfit strolling along the Embankment during a heat wave in July 1932. The Sphere comments on the fashions in London giving the city " the atmosphere

View of Whitford Avenue, Nutley, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Avenue Vittorio Emanuele, Pesaro, Italy, with a fountain in the foreground. Date: 1930s

Young woman in the era of King Francis I, 1515-1547. She wears a chaperon headdress that has the form of a bonnet, purple velvet dress with wide sleeves, pearl belt and peacock feather fan

View of Broadway, Mattoon, Illinois, USA
View of Broadway (looking east), Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois, USA. Date: 1927

New Post Office, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Date: 1935

Whose Your Hatter Song and Polka, by W Wilson
Promotional music sheet for Whose Your Hatter Song and Polka, arranged by W. Wilson. The sheet shows a lady wearing an enormous brimmed hat which was the fashion at the time

Victorian charades party - the first syllables. 19th century

Lady in Court dress worn on His Majestys birthday (King George III), 4 June 1808. 1808

Costume - German Lady. 19th century

Emigration - on the wide and boundless sea. 19th century

That Oxford Cut - Oxford Bags cartoon
Shorty: " D yer mean ter say, Ginger, you ad an offer o a pair of them Oxford trousers once? Why didn t you take em?" Ginger

French Caudron biplane after beach landing
French Caudron single-seater biplane after a beach landing, with the pilot and a large crowd of onlookers, with a Grand Hotel in the top right. Date: circa 1912

Grand Avenue, Escondido, San Diego, California, USA. Date: circa 1906

Entry of General Forey into the City of Mexico
The triumphal entry of French General Forey into mexico City. A 6 horse military procession parades down a wide avenue surrounded by crowds of people

Mrs Satterthwaite at Eden Roc
Phyllis Helen Satterthwaite (nÚÑáCarr; 1886 1962) female tennis player from Great Britain who was active from the early 1910s until the late 1930s

Princesse de Faucigny-Lucinge in polka dots at Venice Lido
Princesse Jean de Faucigny-Lucigne, formerly Baba D Erlanger pictured taking her dogs for a walk at the Venice Lido with her husband and mother, Baroness D Erlanger

Sketch cover - Lady Burghley by Madame Yevonde
Mary Theresa (nÚÑáMontagu-Douglas-Scott), Lady Burghley (1904-1984), First wife of 16th Baron of Burghley (later 6th Marquess of Exeter)

Sonnenspektrum in Berlin
A German revue. Scene from Sonnenspektrum (The Solar Spectrum) based on the work of Frank Wedekind, which ran at the Kurfurstendamm Playhouse, Berlin in 1928

Claude Hulbert and Vera Lennox in Tell Me More
Claude Hulbert and Vera Lennox performing in Tell Me More at the Winter Garden in 1925, significant because of the fashionably wide Oxford bags trousers worn by Hulbert. Date: 1925

Breton musician playing bagpipes, Brittany, Northern France
Breton musician playing a form of bagpipes (the biniou), Brittany, Northern France. Date: 1922

Breton peasant, Brittany, Northern France
Breton peasant in traditional costume, Brittany, Northern France. Date: 1922

Musicians seated on barrels, Brittany, Northern France
Two musicians seated on top of barrels, Brittany, Northern France. They are playing the native bagpipe or biniou (right) and a flageolet (left). 1922

Mayor signing documents, Brittany, Northern France
Mayor signing legal documents, Brittany, Northern France. His traditional costume includes pleated breeches and heavy wooden clogs. 1922

Beach pyjamas and large sunhat by Jaeger, summer fashions of 1931. 1931

Princess Street, Machynlleth, widest street in North Wales
Princess Street, Machynlleth - the widest street in North Wales, July 1937. 1937

Barbara Cartland leaving Highland Brigade Enclosure, Ascot
Barbara Cartland leaving the Highland Brigade Enclosure at Ascot. 1930

Womens swimwear 1909
Woman wearing a daring swimming costume for the time, with criss-cross ties to the sides. 1909

Large Hat, little girl - Mabel Luci Attwell postcard
" It would be nice to see more of each other!" - Large Hat, little girl - Mabel Luci Attwell postcard. Date: circa 1938

Newcastle Road, Stamfordham, Northumberland, circa 1920s
Street scene showing a wide road with an early motor car and houses at Stamfordham, a village in Northumberland. Date: 1920s

Peasant of Majorca. 19th century

Little girl at the seaside in a wide-brimmed straw hat

Sports
Cross country. A brook. Men in 1930s sportswear jumping a wide brook. Artist G D Rowlandson. Date: c.1930

Advert, Thomas Cooks Tours, excursions and general travelling arrangements, with a wide range of destinations all over the world. 1880

Street in Boulder City, Kalgoorlie, Australia. Date: circa 1930s

Monument in Avenida da Liberdade, Lisbon, Portugal
Monument in Avenida da Liberdade (Liberty Avenue), Lisbon, Portugal, marking the beginning of the Portuguese Restoration War against Spain (1640-1668). Date: circa 1930

Procession in Luz, near Lagos, Algarve, southern Portugal
Religious procession of Nossa Senhora da Luz (Our Lady of Light) in Praia de Luz, near Lagos, Algarve, southern Portugal. Date: circa 1905

Cambridge students wearing Oxford bags
The youth of Cambridge displaying the latest university craze for excessively wide trousers, called Oxford bags, originating at Oxford University in the mid-1920s. Date: 1925

Aerial view of Paseo de Cristobal Colon, Seville, Spain. Date: circa 1930

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