Fashion Gallery

Cottages at the head of the creek, Ruan Lanihorne, Cornwall. Around 1925

Glass lantern slide from a lecture, entitled Some Historic Cornish Beauty Spots, given by Cornishman and amateur photographer, Major Arthur William Gill, in around 1925. He was well known in Cornwall and elsewhere during the 1920s and 1930s for his presentations of stills and cine film to many groups including The Royal Institution of Cornwall, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the London Cornish Society. The quarter plate slides which he took prolifically with his ordinary camera are, in many cases, colour. These were painted by his own hand to great effect

© From the collection of the RIC

Fashions for 1954

On the left, a caramel coloured restaurant suit in heavy silk shantung, its melting shoulder line, vertically seamed jacket, slanting pockets "are all allies for your pleasant evening". On the right, a New Look dress by Christian Dior in black paper taffeta with an alluring bell skirt and the tiniest of spencer jackets curving into an enormous draped collar

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10418219

William Hogarth Four Times of the Day - Morning

Vintage engraving of showing a scene from William Hogarth's Four Times of the Day. They are humorous depictions of life in the streets of London, the vagaries of fashion, and the interactions between the rich and poor. In Morning, a lady makes her way to church, shielding herself with her fan from the shocking view of two men pawing at the market girls. The scene is the west side of the piazza at Covent Garden

© duncan1890