Fashions Gallery

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

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Rosie Dolly and the Begum Aga Khan

Two personalities at the Super Elegance de Cote d'Azur held in Nice on the French Riviera wearing costumes elegant enough to win. On the left is Rosie Dolly (aka Mrs Mortimer Davis), one half of the famous cabaret act the Dolly Sisters, wearing the dress that dazzled at the Hotel Negresco. On the right is the Begum Aga Khan in another beautiful creation which was fashioned of home-made Bombay silk. Princess Andr饠Aga Khan (1898-1976), the third wife of Aga Khan III was formerly Andr饠Jos鰨ine Carron and married Aga Khan III in December 1929. Together they had one son, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. The couple divorced in 1943. Date: 1931

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Girls waving at an early Aviator flying overhead

The Aviator is the only man girls look up to A very beautifully drawn and interesting postcard, with strong leaning toward the Women's Suffrage movement during this period in the United Kingdom. These strong and confident women see that the only time it is necessary to look up at a man is when he is flying above in an aeroplane. Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection