“Chiffon Evening Dress 1927”, Castle Howard Costume Museum postcard.

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1920s, 1927, Castle Howard, Castle Howard Costume Museum, Fashion, Postcard, vintage fashion

When I found this postcard I couldn’t recall seeing a Costume Museum at Castle Howard when I visited in 2004 and this afternoon “The Telegraph” on-line informs me that the costume collection was sold off in 2003 to help fund the restoration of the house, so I wouldn’t have seen it. What a shame! If this postcard is anything to go by, the collection must have been quite something.

On The Fence.

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bow ties, Edwardian, Fashion, flat cap, Hull, Hull City of Culture 2017, old photographs, Photography, Retro, Skinny trousers, Vintage

I’m loving this chap’s tailoring, flat cap and the rural idyll studio background; complete with rustic fence. The back of the photograph is blank, but I guess he is a Yorkshireman (as all the other photographs in the box I found it in had connects to Hull, Scarborough and Sheffield). Perhaps I should get myself some skinny trousers…