Historical Fashion Admirer Gifts

"Temperatures are expected to rise throughout the day, sir. May we remove our frock coats?"

1950's Lady.

Ladies' Mile

The Three Musicians - Illustration to Beardwell's Poem (Published Version)

'Why couldn't you just have dandruff like everyone else?'

"So have you been watching Bridgerton?"

Two Victorian men dancing

Countess with a letter

Lady in a pink dress

Victorian Lady

"Oh to be young and in love and wear things cut on the bias."

Blue Dress and Feather

A Macaroni in 1772

"I'm just saying, maybe we wouldn't need the swords if we didn't wear these clothes."

Blue Dress

Blue Haired Lady in Ballgown

Lady in a pretty dress

I want to hold your hand

Women's Fashion

Analysis of Beauty - Plate II.

A man wearing a ruff and a feather cap

An opera singer

Girl who had a bowl of trifle spilt over her dress at her court presentation party the night before

"Of course it sends your message digitally. If you want analogue we'll have to saddle up old Bessie."

Ambrogio

Josephine Baker

"This is one of those subway stations they've restored to their original state."

Servant running after a couple dressed up for a fancy ball with the door-key

"I predict that men's fashions will remain relatively stable throughout the next century and a half, whereas women's will evolve continuously, and with the speed and illogic of a juiced-up tribe of rampaging Darwinian monkeys."

Duchess

Classical Fashion Changed Rapidly and Distincly the Very Moment That Jerky Teenagers Were Invented.

A Head-Dress in 1777

Trilby - 'Confession

Paris Fashions, Winter 1863-64

A design, showing how the pretty hoods worn by ladies might be made useful as well as ornamental.