Worn Collection (page 4)

Top hat with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card
Battered and shabby top hat with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

English ladies swimming team - Stockholm Olympics 1912
The English ladies swimming team at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912, winners of the 4 x 100m race, wearing surprisingly revealing swimming costumes

Schiaparelli Gown 1950S
Red satin evening gown from Schiaparelli with a full skirt & partially strapless, asymmetric tunic with one shoulder strap. Worn with short gloves. Date: early 1950s

Hanging Sleeves 1930S
A gown somewhat mediaeval in style with a deep V neckline, slender trained skirt & hanging sleeves worn with a belt composed of two rows of silver beads. Date: 1930s

Italian Costume 1380
Italian costume: garments worn with armour include parti- coloured soled hose, gipon or doublet, tight-fitting garment without sleeves or with short raglan sleeves & buckles. Date: 1380

German Costume of 1400
Ornately patterned, short, sleeveless super-tunics worn over doublets & chain-mail. Footwear: buskins or soled hose. Headdress: hoods or caps. NB: pouch & cloak with brooch. Date: 1400

Costume of C15Th
Clothing includes: a houppelande with hanging sleeves, pouch hanging from a belt; plumed fur hat worn over an undercap; high buskins & a cape, cote-hardie, piked shoes Date: 15th century

Burgundian Dress 1470
Short jacket or jerkin with hanging sleeves & collar worn over a doublet, hose & piked boots (cracowes), jerkin with a heraldic eagle worn over armour, fur hat with feather. Date: 1470

Florentine Costume C15Th
Fur-lined and edged houppelande or gown with funnel sleeves & a hood; fur- trimmed huke worn over a doublet. Both wear hose, piked shoes (cracowes) & caps. Date: circa 1425

Suffragette W. S. P. U Suffrage Fete 1908
Suffragette W.S.P.U Suffrage Fete 1908. W.S.P.U leaders in front of the Votes for Women stand at the Suffrage Fete. Earls Court, 25th July, 1908

Pierrot Hat
A Pierrot fancy dress hat, with pom-poms on it, worn with a neck ruff, is a look of which one never tires; it is always becoming, gay, and easy to make! 1930s

Making a Fez
Making a fez or tarboosh (from the Persian sar, meaning head and poosh, cover) worn by East Mediterranean Muslim men, which originated in Fez, Morocco, North Africa. Date: 1930s

Greek Theatrical Masks
Masks were worn by the actors in ancient Greek theatre which evolved from the cult of Dionysos : all actors were male, so masks were especially necessary for female roles

Evening Dress / Photo 1890
Bodice with natural waist level defined by a scarf, deep V neckline, shoulder straps descending in pleats to a point at the waist, soft short sleeves & roses worn at the bosom

Hat & Mask in One 1929
Dual purpose headwear: cloche hat worn so low over the eyes that it doubles as a mask. Eyeholes are cut in the crown. Perfect hat for hiding upper facial flaws

Girl in Headscarf
A girl poses wearing a head scarf (quite fashionable in the 1950s and not just worn by the Queen)

Redingote of 1824
A pink redingote trimmed with swans down. Worn with a white ruff collar, broad-brimmed hat trimmed with red plumes & pink shoes trimmed with swans down. She holds a handkerchief

Evening Dress / Poiret
Tunic dress by Paul Poiret: tubular skirt in a green spiral motif print, bronze coloured sleeveless tunic worn with a belt across the hips. Accessories: armlets & pearls

Theatre Coat 1913
Fur-trimmed kimono style evening manteau / coat in an oriental floral (peonies) fabric. Worn with a V -necked gown with a high-waisted cord belt & a toque with a feather

Monkey Fur Coat 1922
A barrel-line coat trimmed with monkey fur has a low waist, pouched bodice, high stand collar & large bow detail at hip level worn with a broad brimmed hat

Fur Coat & Hat 1930S
A diagonal plaid / check dress worn with a 3/4 length coat in grey fur & a tall, brimless hat with a flared crown trimmed in the same fur

Merry Widow Hat C. 1908
Actress Phyllis Le Grand as Diane in " The Quaker Girl" wears a hat in the style of that worn by Lily Elsie in " The Merry Widow", with a large crown & ostrich plumes

Utchet Talisman
UTCHAT TALISMAN worn by the Ancient Egyptians, this incorporated the powerful Eye of Horus

Campaign cloak belonged to Duke of Wellington
Campaign cloak; 1803 (c)-1815 (c). Belonged to FM Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Believed to have been worn by the Duke during the Waterloo campaign

Skirt, Queen Alexandra?s Imperial Military Nursing Service, worn by Sister A Stewart Wyatt, 1902 (c). Grey serge. Date: circa 1860

The American actress Dorothy Dickson reveals the mystery of how to wear lovely clothes, London, 1926. All frocks desinged by the fashion house of Larue

Styles of hair worn in the Roman period
Hairdressing from antiquity to the present - Style of hair worn in the Roman period Date: circa 2nd century AD

Lady in court dress worn on the Kings birthday (George III, 4 June 1808). 1808

Hilton, the Unicursal Maze
Hilton, Cambridgeshire - the Unicursal Maze - during WW2 (where there appears to have been an understandable drop in upkeep!). Date: 1941

Battered old boot-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card, pair of shabby shoes
Greetings card in the shape of a pair of shabby shoes. circa 1890s

Five patients and two nurses outside Quex House
Five patients and two nurses photographed on the front doorsetp of Quex House. Four of the patients are wearing the hospital uniform of hospital blues worn by Imperial military hospital patients

Four VAD patients at Quex House front door
Four patients are in front of the main door to Quex House. One, whose left leg is amputated is sitting on a chair. Another is sitting on the arm of the chair. The other two are standing alongside

Photograph of three VAD patients at Quex Park VAD Hospital. The man on the right is Artieme Mettrie who was a patient at the hospital between 14th November 1914 and 13th May 1915

John Bright as a Lord
JOHN BRIGHT, statesman, depicted - improbably ! - as seated in the House of Lords - which he had criticised as a refuge for worn-out members of the House of Commons. Date: 1811 - 1889

Matching Dress & Jacket
Simple yet elegant dress with large motif at the neck line created using braid embroidery is worn with a white jacket with matching motifs, roll collar & padded shoulders. Date: 1930s

Chess Board Frock 1930S
A silk dress with a high neck line and full, 3/4-length sleeves in a brown and white chess board check design. Worn with gauntlets & a belt with pointed ends & button fastener Date: 1930s

Coat with Chain Motif
A stylish, 3/4 length coat with wrap-over front, large revers, self-coloured belt & padded applique chain motif running down the bodice. Worn with a brimless hat. Date: 1930s

Skirt & Cape Suit 1930S
Navy blue suit, in a heavily textured wool, composed of a long line skirt & short cape worn over a beige angora jumper. N.B clutch handbag, leather gauntlets & felt hat. Date: 1930s

Model with Fox Terrier
Military style tunic in lime green with epaulettes & button detail worn with a box-pleated skirt in pale lime & bottle green & a tiny hat with veil. N.B Wire haired fox terrier. Date: late 1930s

Cocktail Gown 1930S
Gown by Lucien Lelong in black & red jersey with a heavily textured (possibly knitted) jacket with contrasting revers & cuffs. Worn with a belt & chinese style cap. Date: 1930s

State Habits of C14Th
State Habits: cote-hardie with fitchets & long tippets to the sleeves, sideless surcote worn over a kirtle, tabard style sleeveless surcote with side slits. 14th century

Dress - Early Christians
Clothing worn by early Christians. 1st century

C13th German Costume
Women: tabard style super- tunic (surcote) worn over a gown, loose flowing hair, ornamental fillet (circlet), veil, barbette & fillet. Man: tunic, mantle & cape. Date: 13th century

German Nobles C14Th
Hood-turbans, fur-lined & trimmed houppelande with bagpipe sleeves, a voluminous garment cape-like in shape but belted & worn over a gipon (the buttoned sleeves visible) Date: 14th century

Italian Costumes 1488-90
Italian costume. Woman: bold striped gown, the sleeves decorated with ribbon bows, hair worn in a long plait. Men: fur -trimmed tabard or huke, soled hose. Date: 1488 - 1490

German Costume Early C15
Men: garments with hanging sleeves worn under armour, chaperon with liripipe. Woman: houppelande (gown) with hanging sleeves, ermine borders, a rosary & a barbette Date: early 15th century

German Noblewomen C15Th
German ladies of rank: gown with deep fur hem & falling collar over an ornate kirtle. A loose belt is worn. Or a gown with a square neckline, wide funnel sleeves & girdle. Date: late 15th century

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