See the weirdest Edwardian fashions on these more than 100 year old trade cards of glamorous showgirls of that time.
The Roaring 20s is normally thought of as the decade that changed the world of fashion but many of the changes started years before in the 1910s. The 1910s seems to be a bit of a no man’s land, sandwiched between the Edwardian Era and the Jazz Age. There are many different names for the 20s but very few for the 1910s, as if society has chosen to forget that decade and all the doom and gloom that happened in it.
Ironically, it’s the very darkness of WW1 and disappointment of the sinking of the Titanic that created the catalyst for creative change in the first place.
Series Title: Beautiful Women
Issuer: Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd
Issue Year: 1915
Includes: Flora Allan, Nancy Alwyn, Hilda Antony, Pearl Aufrere, Madame Balachova, Clara Beck, Violet Beryl, Gwenddlen Brogden, Geraldine Bruce, Lily Bruce, Maysie Burlingham, Ivy Close, Patricia Collinge, Winnie Collins, Gadys Cooper, Elsie Craven, Maude Darrell, Vera Davis, Teddie Gerrard, Gaby Deslys, Lily Elsie, Isobel Elsom, Diana Eustage, Mdlle Flory, May Flower, Mirian Gaskin, Teddie Gerrard, Agnes Glynne, Zoe Gordon, Evie Greene, Violet Hawkins, Martha Edman, Raven Hill, Mirabelle Hillyer, Iris Hoey, Joe Howard, Sonia Ivanoff, Gadys Ivery, Julia James, Julia James, Hellie Keene, May Kinder, Peggy Kurton, Gertrude Laarhoven, Lily Legros, Dorma Leight, Ethel Lewis, Marian Lewis, Eileen Molyneux, Moya Mannering, Lily Maxwell, Dorothy Minto, Phyllis Monkman, Rena Parker, Cyllene Moxon, Pretty Myrgle, Shirley Noel, Denise Orme, May Picard, Gabrielle Ray, Peggy Rush, Elsie Scott, Ivy Shilling, Hilda Sim, Madame Sobinoff, Blanche Stocker, Sadrene Storri, Ellaline Terriss, Kathleen Vincent, Florence Walton, Dorothy Ward, Irene Warren, Patty Wells, Vivienne West, Constance Worth
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