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Here is a charming photograph of the marriage of Beatrice Oldham and Jack Clark in Blackpool, Lancashire on 26th December 1919.
I feel the significance of the
date after the First World War is not lost in this photograph, where
there is a certain air of informality and lack of ostentation, with a plain hat and a shorter skirt and the groom carrying a trilby hat. It contrasts with the
very formal opulent dress style at Beatrice's sister Sarah's wedding nine
years earlier in 1910.
Sarah and Beatrice were the aunts of my mother's second cousin Elsie Oldham. Sarah's
husband George worked for the Oldham family coal merchant business in Blackpool.
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But to return to everyday fashion wear in hats|:
My husband's great aunt Pat King, nee Hibbert, on the beach with her little daughter Annette, born in 1919.
The
formal engagement photograph of my husband's parents Ivy White and John
Robert Donaldson of South Shields, County Durham. They married in 1929.
A very fancy large hat for a little girl - Florence Mason. c.1905, pictured here with her father. She was my grandfather's cousin on his mother's side of the family, and the youngest of twelve children, six of whom were born in Brooklyn, New York.
A photograph in the collection of my Great Aunt Jenny, and presumed to be a friend's daughter.
rather glum.
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I think these hats are gorgeous and it's a shame we've stopped watching them.
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a collection of hats! The little daughter of a friend holding her teddy is beyond adorable! :)
ReplyDeleteQuite a selection of hat photos! Your husband's mother's hat and the little white hat on the daughter of Great Aunt Jenny are my favorites.
ReplyDeleteToo bad the millinery profession has disappeared. Although I’m grateful we don’t wear them anymore. I feel for your mother at the parade.
ReplyDeleteA very interesting array of hats. I always discover new useful clues from your dated photos on how to estimate the time frame of unmarked photos and postcards. The one female hat trend that still mystifies me is the brimless helmet fashion of the 1920-30s which seems like an abrupt change from the wide flat brims and floral hats of the 1900-1919s. I suspect it was brought on by both the influence of magazines/newspaper reports on film stars and the new fashion for shorter hair styles.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos!
ReplyDeleteI hope that gloomy group was trying to look gloomy and didn't actually feel so gloomy!
ReplyDeleteI thought there was something wrong with my comments folder, as unusually I was not getting any responses to,this post . It was only today, I checked my Comments Awaiting Moderation, and for some reason, they were all there. I was delighted to see them, so thank you all.
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