Wearing Collection

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- To the Young Women of London
To the Young Women of London. Is your " Best Boy" wearing Khaki? Recruitment poster, one of thirteen produced in Britain between August 1914 - March 1916. 1914

WW2 Poster -- Keep mum, shes not so dumb

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- Whos Absent?
Whos Absent? - Is It You? Chromolithograph recruitment poster, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Printed by Andrew Reid and Company Limited, 50 Grey Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Blonde woman in a tree, wearing a black bikini and matching eyepatch, with a dagger in her hand. 1980s

Patriotic terrier circa 1915

The Baby Linen Shop
A Young girl lifts up her very young baby sibling outside the fron of the Baby Linen Shop, displaying little dresses and bonnets for little people. Date: 1902

Mules wearing nosebags, Western Front, WW1
Mules stabled in the open air wearing their nosebags, on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

Edwardian lady
Illustration of a voluptuous lady. Wearing a silk petticoat and pink hat she displays her beauty. Postcard illustration.Date: circa 1904

Girl with wild roses
Girl holding a bunch of wild roses and wearing a matching garland and dress. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: 1902

Girl withclover
Girl holding clover on a pole and wearing a matching garland and dress. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: 1902

Girl with violets

Selfridges window display, London
Pedestrians pass by a window display at Selfridges store in Oxford Street, Central London. Three elegant looking female dummies are wearing the latest Paris fashions. Date: 1958

Oxford University students coming out of lectures
Oxford University students coming out of their lectures. Several of the men are wearing duffel coats, which were very popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Date: 1958

Parisian artist with picture frame
A Parisian artist carries an empty picture frame on his shoulder. He is wearing a typical French beret and is smoking a cigarette. Date: 1955

Brother and sister sitting in their garden, close to a swing. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard Date: circa late 1940s

The Bustle & Motor Car
A lady wearing a bustle chats to a modern motor car driver through his car window! Date: late 19th century

Japanese man
A Japanese man (possibly a spiritual man?) in a studio wearing traditional costume and wooden geta footwear Date: Late 19th Century

Girl on some Steps

Radio Rabbits
Two rabbits wearing headphones, tuning into a radio station. Date: early 1930s

Aluminium Blonde by David Wright, featuring a fair-haired woman wearing a transparent night dress or evening dress. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during

1930S BRIDE

Dancing Model
A pretty model enjoys dancing with her partner. Not sure about wearing socks with high heels, though... Date: 1960s

Sheffield Pub Scene
A busy scene in a working class pub in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Note the women, most of them wearing headscarfs! Date: 1961

High Priority by David Wright featuring a woman wearing a yellow dress and red beaded necklace. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Deaf Cyclist
This cyclist is wearing a sandwich board reading beware, I am deaf. Date: early 1930s

Long Black Gloves
A pair of hands wearing long black gloves and jewellery. Date: late 1960s

Model with Skis
Female model wearing a bobble hat and holding a pair of skis over her shoulder. Date: late 1960s

A Good Vintage
A man wearing a knitted sweater holds up a glass of fine sherry or port he has just poured from a decanter. Date: 1960s

Everything Under Control by David Wright featuring a glamorous blonde wearing a head scarf or snood. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Homeward Bound
Two Dutch children wearing traditional costume chase a goose home. Date: c.1925

Good Understanding by David Wright showing a pair of shapely stockinged legs. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

A Sweet Little Trick by David Wright, a woman seated, naked apart from stocking. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Bustle Causes a Stir
Even in 1931, a lady wearing a Victorian bustle could still turn heads in Hyde Park, London, England. Date: late 19th century

Colour Sense by David Wright, showing a red-headed woman (his wife, Esme, who posed for many of his pin-ups) wearing a fur coat, wedding ring and checking her make up in a compact mirror

A Cushy Job by David Wright, featuring a semi-naked woman covered in a red satin sheet, wearing stilettos. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940

High and Mighty by David Wright showing a woman wearing a low-cut blouse and headscarf. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Fortune Telling Canary
A young woman with a hooked nose, wearing a cloche hat, asks an old gipsy woman if her canary can tell her fortune. Date: early 1930s

Anglo-Saxon by David Wright, featuring a glamorous and curvaceous blonde wearing a 1940s style white blouse. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during

A Mature Female Model
Head and shoulders portrait of a mature woman wearing a large beaded necklace. Date: late 1960s

Bustle & Plus Fours
A rather incongrous scene as old meets new and a man wearing plus fours and Argyll socks steps out with a lady wearing a bustle! Date: late 19th century

London Opinion 1935
A jolly looking woman wearing a party dress and paper hat opens the top of an old wireless set, ready to play some tunes perhaps. Date: 1935

Tan Talizing by David Wright featuring a woman wearing a yellow bikini, sunbathing beside her sunhat. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

OLD BOYS
Two old boys sitting on a doorpstep, both wearing flat caps, North Kensington, London. Date: 1960

Girl on a Wall
A little girl playing on a wall, wearing a warm winter overcoat and boots, North Kensington, London. Date: 1958

Japanese lady in winter
Japanese lady wearing winter costume with a scarf wrapped around her head and face Date: late 19th Century

BRA SKIER
A rash young woman braves the ski slopes wearing just her bra and slacks! Date: 1960s

Javanese Bazaar Scene
Two men wearing sarongs crouch down to chat to a little boy at a bazaar in Java, Indonesia. Date: early 1930s

SEXY MODEL
A sexy model with long hair, posing on a stool, wearing a bodystocking. Date: 1960s

Coax me a little bit by David Wright, showing a woman wearing a diaphonous evening dress and entitled in typically teasing prose

Streamlined Piece by David Wright, featuring a woman wearing a pale blue evening dress leaning against a chair. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during

Fighting Fit by David Wright. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

No Coupons by David Wright
A lady, half naked and wearing stockings, placing a hat on her head. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Eyes Left ! by David Wright
Eyes Left! by David Wright, showing a topless model wearing a blue head-dress. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Horses drinking at a water trough. Artist: Eileen Hood. Watercolour of carthorses wearing blinkers at a water trough Date: circa 1922

Model Sucking her Finger
A model wearing a nightie, sucking her finger provocatively. Date: 1960s

Shooting with gun dogs
Two hunters with shotguns stand awaiting the arrival of flying game. Both are wearing traditional hunting garb of tweed and flat caps and are accompanied by their gun dogs

Javanese Dancer
Profile of a native dancer wearing traditional costume, including an elaborate headdress and arm band, Java, Indonesia. Date: 1930s

Girls in Southam Street

Night Shift by David Wright featuring a cheeky red-haired woman wearing a diaphanous night dress, seated on a luxurious satin bed

Le Furet Corsets Poster
Art deco style poster advertising Le Furet corsets, depicting a slim and glamorous woman wearing the said item. Date: c.1930

Japanese lady
A Japanese lady in traditional costume and wearing the wooden footwear known as geta, carries a parasol and battles against the wind Date: Late 19th Century

Young blonde girl picks flowers
A young girl with long flowing blonde locks and wearing a sky blue dress, picks blooms of many colours in a lush garden. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

One D--n Thing After Another ! by David Wright

African Woman in London
A black African woman in traditional dress, walking down Southam Street, London, in front of a group of white working class women, one of them wearing a headscarf. 1956

Show a Leg by David Wright, showing a woman putting on her stocking Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Girl wearing warm winter clothing

Child carrying a Christmas Tree
A child in white winter clothing carrying a Christmas tree. c. 1900s

Children wearing warm winter clothing
Christmas card showing children wearing warm winter clothing circa late 19th century

Round tower in Devon countryside
A woman wearing a cloche hat stands in front of an old round tower somewhere in the Devon countryside. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts Date: 1920s

Cartoon illustration - boy and pet dog
A cartoon-style illustration of a young boy with his pet dog, wearing a flat cap and sat atop a tree stump. Date: circa 1980

Sixties Casual Fashion
Full-length photograph of a Sixties model wearing a checked shirt, cropped trousers and sandals Date: 1960s

Baby in Towelling Nappy
A baby wearing a towelling nappy looks up in astonishment Date: 1960s

Portly City Gent 1956
A City gent, wearing a bowler hat and overcoat and leaning on his walking stick, prepares to cross the road, London, England. Date: 1956

City Gents 1960
City gents, one of them wearing the obligatory bowler hat, with an umbrella and newspaper over his arm, on Throgmorton Street, London, England. Date: 1960

Anti-Flu Masks
A man and a woman wearing anti-flu masks. These masks cover the nose and mouth and are designed to prevent germs spreading. They may work but they look very curious! Date: 1920s

Hungarian Pageant
A proud line-up of Hungarian peasant men, war veterans, wearing their medals with their traditional costumes. Date: early 1930s

Making Shaving Brushes
A young man with curly hair and wearing spectacles, combing badger bristles for making into shaving brushes. Date: early 1930s

Bethlehem Bride
A young bride wearing her dowry and traditional wedding dress, Bethlehem, Jerusalem. Date: early 1930s

Beauty Treatment 1930S
A woman wearing a strange mask undergoing beauty treatment at a Berlin beauty specialists salon. Date: 1930s

Female Artist Painting
A fashionable female artist wearing a floppy hat, painting outdoors on a chair. Date: early 1930s

Guards Wearing Busbys
Guardsmen in black bearskin busby hats, marching on parade in Whitehall, central London. Date: 1930s

Girls at the Cinema
A group of extremely well turned-out young ladies, all of them with trendy Marcel Wave hair-dos, wearing headphones to watch a film at the cinema. Date: early 1930s

Delivering Milk
An old lady on the doorstep of her house ( Southbank ), pays the milk girl (wearing rather a short coat and long socks) for the pail of milk she has delivered, Margate, England. Date: early 1930s

Wedding Dress 1960S
A young bride in her wedding dress wearing a veil and carrying a bouquet of roses. Date: 1960s

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