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Highland Dress.

03 Wednesday Dec 2014

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur in Ephemera., Hull and Hullness

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Anlady Road Hull, Antiques and collectables, Ephemera, Fancy Dress, Grannies Parlour, Highland dress, Hull, Hull City of Culture 2017, J J Payne, kilt, old photographs, Photography, portrait photography, sporran

Note the feather in the cap.

Note the detailing on the jacket, especially on the cuff.

On my last visit to “Grannies Parlour“, an antique shop on Hull’s Anlady Road, I found quite a few photographs worth adding to my collection, including three studio portraits of young ladies in Highland dress of varying degrees of authenticity. The largest is on thick card and show a girl with a feather in her glengarry cap. Sadly the photograph doesn’t have the name of the photographic studio on it anywhere.

Kilt.

Is this the same girl from the first photograph, do you think? But a couple of years older.

In the second photograph the costume is more fancy dress than highland dress, but the pose more than makes up for it; a young highland dancer perhaps? This photograph is post card size, but, like the first, it doesn’t bear the photographers name. I’m assuming it was taken in a photographic studio, because the wall in the background is suspiciously bear for somebody’s house!

The kilt is a little short!

The kilt is a little short!

The third photograph does have a name and address on it, “J. J. Payne, 106, Anlady Road, hull“, printed on the back. Sussex Postcards. info informs me that Mr. Payne is listed in the trade directories of Bexhill-on-Sea as a photographer in 1903 and 1904. He then appears in the Withernsea census of 1911. The studio backdrop is very elaborate; the young lady looks like she is having her photograph taken on the battlements of a castle!

I find these interesting because, I think, they are about cultural identity. As an Englishman, whose late-Grandfather was a very proud Scotsman, I never went as far as dressing in a kilt, but I inherited a lot of his likes and dislikes (in fact the last vinyl album I added to my record collection was by the Pipes & Drums of the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) and a feeling that I need to keep my Scottish heritage alive, even if it sometimes seems that no one is interested! Perhaps these photographs were a way for families in Hull to maintain that Scottish heritage; a heritage that has now sadly been forgotten.

Man Eating Shark Costume, Fancy Dress Fanatics, Bristol. 18/08/14.

19 Wednesday Nov 2014

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur in Out and About., Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion.

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Bristol, Fancy Dress, Fancy Dress Fanatics Bristol, lobster, mermaid, shark, window shopping.

...or do you fancy a lobster costume instead?

…or a lobster costume perhaps?

A close up.

A close up.

The things you see from the top deck of a double decker bus! It seems that the Fancy Dress Fanatics have got every thing you need for that “under the sea” themed fancy dress party you’ve been invited to. I don’t think I’d suit a mermaid costume and the lobster is out of the question, so it would have to be the man eating shark costume for me (apologies if you live in a part of the world where the chances of being attacked by a shark are much higher than they are in Bristol and you find that distasteful). You can find the Fancy Dress Fanatics at 212 Cheltenham Road, Bristol, BS6 5QU or on-line at http://www.fancydressfanatics.co.uk/. 

Photo Archive: Dalek, Castle Arcade, High Street, Cardiff, July 2012.

24 Thursday Apr 2014

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur in Photo Archive.

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Arcades, Cardiff, Cardiff Castle, Castle Arcade, Coffee Barker, Dalek, Doctor Who, Fancy Dress, fancy dress shop, I C Fancy Dress, Sandwiches, tea.

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I met this employee of I C Fancy Dress in Cardiff whilst searching for something for breakfast (having refused to pay the extortionate price of bed and breakfast at the hotel). After roaming Cardiff city centre for what seemed like an age I ended up having a cup of tea and a doorstep sandwich in Coffee Barker across the Castle Arcade from the fancy dress shop and it’s Dalek doorman.

CNV00130The Castle Arcade runs from the High Street (if you enter from the High Street end you will confront the Dalek head on, as I did) and then it takes a right turn towards Castle Street and Cardiff Castle. I can recommend Coffee Barker for a nice brew and a thick sandwich, but I didn’t go in the fancy dress shop, so you’ll have to investigate that yourself.

Both of these businesses have Facebook pages: Tea and sandwich:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Coffee-Barker/147298511987541 

Fancy dress: https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-C-Fancy-Dress-I-Claudius-Vintage-Clothing/210078215696412

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