Pictures of Ordinary People and Children in Britain in Everyday Clothes
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com
These are original family photographs of ordinary people in everyday clothes and taken between 1922 and 1955. They show fashion as it was worn and are an accurate record of fashion history of the early and mid-twentieth century.
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1923 - 4 sisters and a brother. Later another 8 brothers and sisters joined them, but with one stillborn. The simple everyday clothes were changed for velvet outfits on Sundays, when the children attended church 3 times a day.
A school photograph of children taken in South Wales UK in 1945. Bows were used to keep girl's hair tidy and a fresh hair ribbon was a treat when new clothes were unlikely.
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Here two of the children play walking with sticks and poles. Note the crispness of the girl's starched cotton pique frock. Probably taken about 1946.
Phyllis wearing a fashionable wool crepe dress circa 1940.
Florrie with her brother Will 1940s. Note his very wide leather belt called a Sam Browne belt. Her wet look shiny top has a look about it that says it could be worn today.