B Road Collection (page 6)

Carl V / Hre / Titian / Selma
CARL V / KARL V Holy Roman Emperor, also King of Spain as Charles I, seen here with his dog

Rj Seddon / Vfair 1902
RICHARD JOHN SEDDON known as KING DICK New Zealand politician born in England

Oxford / Broad Street 1934
Oxford: Broad Street

Summer 1915 / Bon Ton
Summertime fashions for women & girls by Paquin, Doucet, Beer etc. N.B tunic dresses, short voluminous skirts & small vertical hats & feathers or broad brims & flowers

Modes De Paris 1830
Gowns of mousselaine, with wide lapels bodice en schall made by Madame Boussard. The ornate, broad brimmed hats are of gros de Naples

Satire on Fashions 1869
A satire on the fashions of the day include flashy, tight trousers & fancy broad shouldered jackets. The polonaise, short skirts, panniers & false hair of the ladies are also mocked

Fashions May 1868
White paletot with peplum points. Girl: habit shirt with a puff at the sleeve top, skirt with pyramid trim, tunic with peplum skirt ends. N.B use of broad ribbon trimmings

Purple Bonnet 1865
Blue: demi-train, silk cord at hem, neck & as a device to loop up floating ribbon ends. Grey & purple: button & flat ribbon trim down the front & in points at the hem

Costume Mrs Hunter 1860S
Plain dress with bishop sleeves & reversed cuffs composed of folds. A string of large beads falls between the stand-up collar & belt. N.B broad bracelet with disc motif

Racial / Norway / Lady 1821
Red dress: square neckline & short, puffed sleeves ornamented with cord trim, tucker & cuffs possibly of muslin & a broad black belt with a silver clasp

GIRLs FASHIONS 1846
Pink dress: four scallop edged flounces, tight fitting sleeves with volans & worn with a net pelerine. Hair: covers the ears. Green dress: worn with a shawl & bonnet

Walking Dress 1840
Grey dress with a single flounce & bouillon (puffing) on the skirt, lace ruff & brown fur muff & fur-trimmed pelerine-mantlet, broad brimmed bonnet with plumes

Musical Ladies 1851
Skirt with 5 flounces, black lace jacket & broad floating ribbon ends descending from the waist. Green redingote: bow trim, undersleeves with reversed vandyked cuffs

Coat / Fur Collar 1924
Design by Madeleine Vionnet: 3/4 length wrap over coat with broad grey fur roll collar & deep cuffs, a brimless hat with fur band & textured red crown & a large posy of red flowers

Lido Pyjamas 1930
Marcel Rochas designs for the Lido show casual wide legged trousers or beach pyjamas, a blouson jacket, a long gilet or waistcoat & broad floppy brimmed straw hats

Costume / Photo / Men / R Day
A man seated on a stile wears a short S-B coat with rounded borders, collar & long lapels, narrow fitting trousers & a low square crowned hat with a broad hat band

Photo / Costume / Fratelli
Photograph showing the rear view of dress in watered silk with the sleeves ornamented with lace, a broad band of ribbon hems the skirt. Hair: dressed in a chignon

Child in Frock 1860S
A small child wears a frock with short sleeves ornamented with full rosettes of narrow ribbon, volans & ribbon trim on the skirt, broad belt with buckle & button boots

GIRL & DESK 1860S
Girl: dress in a large check print, full skirt & vandyked falling collar & sleeves, trimmed with both narrow & broad velvet ribbon. Hair: chignon with hairnet

Sailor Suit / Franchomme
A boy in a nautically inspired costume with gold braid, open bottom or Danish trousers, sailor collar, broad leather belt, black ribbed stockings & buttoned leather boots

Doffing Top Hat 1834
Velvet D-B coat with broad M -cut collar, cut-away in a shallow curve, spurs, striped waistcoat, wool cloth & leather strapped pantaloons buttoning over the boots

Striped Cossacks 1823
Straw hat with broad brim & spreading crown, loosely tied plaid cravat, grey frock coat with roll collar, blue striped cossacks with fly front, white waistcoat, yellow fob ribbon

D-B Suit / Burton 1938
A businessman in smart grey, striped double-breasted suit with broad, long lapels & loose fit trousers

Overcoat / Burton 1938
Smartly attired city gent models the double-breasted Pinnacle overcoat with broad, long lapels in a herring bone tweed with window pane check. N.B trilby hat

French Fashions 1891
Wrap-over jacket bodice with gigot sleeves & long basques forming an over-skirt, broad belt & high necked blouse. Gored skirt, plaid blouse & sash worn as a belt & braces

Grey Hat with Feather
A fetching grey & black felt hat with a low flat crown & broad up-turned brim ornamented with a dyed & shaped feather & a jewelled device for holding it

Theatregoer in Big Hat
A woman in a large hat with a broad brim & ostrich feather plume is serenely unaware that her choice in millinery is obscuring the view of her fellow theatre goers

20S Hat Selection 1929
Designer hats: yellow felt cloche with irregular brim, black capeline with chevron hatband, beaded helmet, a broad brimmed picture hat & a hat with an assymetric brim

Hat Styles for 1787
Hats profusely ornamented with feathers, bows, ribbons & flowers. Stripes are very much in vogue. Some have broad flat brims, others have a brim that tapers outwards & downwards

Ermine Stole, Scarf, Hat
A young woman wears an ermine muff, hat and scarf to keep out the winter chills while out foraging for fir tree branches to decorate her home at Christmas

FUR MUFF 1913
Tango dress with V -neck, broad green cummerbund / sash, green toque & black aigrette & a large fur muff with ruffle lining drawn in at the centre with a band of roses

Social / Danish Women 1913
A striped tailored costume with a slightly flaring skirt contained at the knee by a buttoned strap & a waisted jacket with turned-back cuffs, button detail & broad lapels

D-B Varsity Suit 1907
American suit: D-B Varsity with broad lapels, shaped cuffs, double pocket flaps & loose-hip trousers tapering at the ankle. A tad too elaborate to be considered elegant

American Short Top-Coat
American short top-coat: sac shape with fly front, pocket flaps & broad-leaf lapels. Worn with trousers with a front crease, deep turn-ups & which taper at the ankle

Frilly Seaside Bonnets
Three little girls at Blackpool keep their complexions fair by wearing large lacy broad brimmed bonnets which secure under the chin with a bow

Vichy Fashions 1915
Girls: loose smock or drop waist. Women: styles ranging from a single long skirt to the fashionable voluminous skirts. Also Louis heeled shoes, hats - broad brims or vertical feathers

Bearded Man 1860S
A bearded man with one hand on his hip wears collarless waistcoat & jacket with braid on the cuffs, broad silk faced lapels & with the fronts sloping away from above waist level

Duke of Kent & Scouts
Prince George (Duke of Kent) at a jamboree of Norfolk and Suffolk scouts in Salhouse Broad, near Wroxham, England

Trouser Suit 1939
Madeleine de Rauch design: masculine cut trouser suit in striped linen with broad padded shoulders, deep revers & wide leg trousers with turn- ups (cuffs) & loafer shoes

Jumper & Flower Brooch
A hand-knitted jumper in a lacy ribbed stitch without a collar or welt is worn with a broad belt & a knitted flower brooch

Tunic Dress 1912
Column-like Directoire or Empire line revival: corsage of translucent fabric with a deep V back, broad cummerbund & a narrow trained skirt with gathered tunic

Picture Hat
Ascot hat: broad brimmed straw picture hat laden with a profusion of fruit, flowers & feathers including roses, grapes & ostrich plumes & secured with a net veil

Wife and Rolling Pin
The lady is saying, in a broad Yorkshire accent which I ll spare you, that she doesn t need Votes For Women, her rolling-pin is all she needs to get what she wants

Ballarat Street Scene
Sturt Street, Ballarat - a majestically broad thoroughfare : a wagon loaded with wool is drawn by a team of four horses

Boy Scouts 1930S
Washing up does not seem such an irksome task after all, to this group of boy scouts. They are part of a scout camp at Selhouse Broad, Wroxham, also attended by Lord Baden Powell

Blunt / Cetus / Plate 53
The constellation of Cetus: the animal is based on a whale, but has elements of a quadruped, with webbed feet and a broad tail

Costume / Man 1955
Frenchman in a formal pin- striped suit with a double- breasted jacket with long lapels which end at the second button & a trilby hat

Plants / Orchis Latifolia
Broad-Leaved Orchis

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