SBHX8/2052 - Black and white photo showing a group of nurses standing round a piano whilst one of them plays. They are wearing their uniforms and little Xmas pudding hats on top of their caps.
Caps are an integral part of the nursing uniform, and these St Bartholomew's nurses have added party hats to accessorise their uniforms 🎄🎄
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #HistNursing #FestiveClothes #Archives
Black and white photo with Mental Health Nurses and children in front of a Christmas tree and large window
Black and white photo with children in front of a Christmas tree and large window
Today’s #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
#FestiveClothes
Thanks to Carol for these lovely photos from Christmas time at Whitchurch Hospital. The date is December 26th 1969.
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#HospitalChristmas
Smiling woman standing outside wearing a cloche hat and a dark-colored coat with a fur collar that wraps around to the sides
Woman standing outside in a light-colored brimmed hat and a dark, full-length black coat and dress shoes. She's wearing a large fur collar.
Sepia-toned photo of a little girl in a black wide-brimmed hat, dressy coat, and black tigths. She has a large fur collar and muff
On the Great Plains, festive clothes need to be warm. We love these pics of people in their fancy, warm best. They're from a primarily-1920s photo album from a Nebraska teacher who worked in Wyoming and western Nebraska. #FestiveClothes #ArchiveAdventCalendar #fashion #archives
No Christmas would be complete without a paper crown! Men of the 1st Battalion can be seen wearing theirs at their 1955 Christmas dinner in Malaya. 👑
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1935 Brewers' Society advert for the London evening papers. It includes the slogan: 'For a merry Christmas we all agree that beer is best', and a photo of five slightly inebriated looking people with pints and party hats.
In the aftermath of the office Christmas lunch, we're taking festive hat inspiration from the archives
This collection of unposed looking seasonal revellers featured as part of the Brewers' Society's long running 'Beer is best' ad campaign
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #FestiveClothes
Historic embroidered gloves
It's #FestiveClothes for today's #ArchiveAdventCalendar with @arascot.bsky.social. These beautifully embroidered gloves (c.1600) belonged to our College founder & surgeon, Peter Lowe. We probably wouldn't recommend wearing them to make snowballs though 😆❄️
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Photograph of George and Nora, both wearing cloaks. Nora is in a trolley pulled by George and carrying a sak of gifts with her.
A line of Treveylan family children in height order.
A photograph of Florence, Hugh and Nora.
A family portrait of all the Trevelyan family members present.
As we're well into Christmas party season, here are several photos from our Trevelyan Family Photograph Albums of the Trevelyans posing for their 1924 festive photographs in their festive outfits (some more festive than others!).
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A young girl dressed as a fairy
We love a festive fairy! Discover the story of Muriel Kathleen Sydenham, the young girl photographed here at a children’s fancy dress ball at Reading Town Hall in 1892 in our two part blog. The first blog shares her early life and the second looks at her WW1 story: bit.ly/3XBpzuB #FestiveClothes
A Victorian Christmas card with an illustration of four little girls in a row. They are all wearing white outfits of bonnets with bows, and fur trimmed long coats. The card is cut out around their outlines apart from the bottom of the card which has the words “A Christmas full of fun”.
These young ladies are dressed in their finery for a Christmas full of fun! This lovely #Victorian Christmas card from the 1890s was special enough to be kept and pasted into a scrap book.
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What are your favourite #FestiveClothes ? Tricorner hat or powdered wig? #ArchiveAdvent #Advent #Christmas2025 @arascot
❄️ #WinterWonderland or Snow Queen chic this #FashionFriday? Anna Neagle brings the glitz & glamour with #festiveclothes for @arascot.bsky.social's #archiveadventcalendar. From Film Pictorial Annual 1937.#filmhistory #filmarchives #EYASparkle
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#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 12 is #FestiveClothes. Who remembers festive outfits, widely reported, worn by Dunblane’s famous sporting sons, Sir Andy Murray and Jamie Murray OBE?
🚶Visit Dunblane Museum on Saturdays until 20 Dec
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited
#ArchiveAdventCalendar theme 12 is #FestiveClothes. Here’s the portrait of Robert Leighton which is in Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library given a transformation into the garb of Father Christmas 🎅
🚶Leighton Library is now closed for the winter, except for opening by special arrangement for groups
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#day12
Team #glasgowroyalinfirmary embracing the season with all the #festiveclothes
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Christmas party at the Lea Bridge Gas Works, c.1945. Families are gathered around a decorated Christmas tree in front of a tall window in the centre, with paper chains and star decorations above. Photo from VHM collection, available in our Searchroom.
Party dresses for Christmas celebrations at the Lea Bridge Gas Works, c.1945. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #FestiveClothes @arascot.bsky.social
Colour fashion photo. Model wears ankle length brown fur coat with tall conical fur hat.
Now this is my idea of #FestiveClothes (as long as it's faux) snuggly and warm with a tall gnome hat! #XmasVogue, 1985.
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Velvet damask embroidered coat with gold, purple, burgundy, and a woven reddish trim. From the Danbury Museum Collection of Marian Anderson costumes.
Photo of Black contralto Marian Anderson in a velvet damask robe, 1944. Photo is sepia toned.
There’s not much more #FestiveClothes for #ArchiveAdventCalendar than a gown/dress/coat worn by Marian Anderson. This beautiful coat is one of several pieces of Miss Anderson’s that are within our collection. She wore this piece for decades, and it was loved.
Black and white photo of a ballroom decorated with tinsel and many dressed up people dancing
What better reason to put on your fanciest clothes than a Christmas dance? Students and faculty at University of Nebraska at Kearney c. 1955 enjoying the dance, complete with live music and all the festive decorations. #FestiveClothes #ArchiveAdventCalendar #archives #tbthursday
Janis Ian's stage boots, worn presumably during the Christmas period???
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During carol services nurses used to turn their wool capes inside-out to show the red lining at Christmas #FestiveClothes #ArchiveAdventCalendar
On Day 12 of #ArchiveAdventCalendar we present these splendid Slippers for Christmas - useful presents for every member of the family which could be bought at Treadwell Bros in Pier Road #Erith. (Kentish Times newspaper Dec. 1926). #FestiveClothes
A pair of light brown leather gloves with elaborate embroidery in faded gold and silver thread
It's #FestiveClothes for today's #ArchiveAdventCalendar with @arascot.bsky.social. These beautifully embroidered gloves (c.1600) belonged to our College founder & surgeon, Peter Lowe. We probably wouldn't recommend wearing them to make snowballs though 😆❄️
Black and white photo showing a group of nurses standing round a piano whilst one of them plays. They are wearing their uniforms and little Xmas pudding hats on top of their caps.
Caps are an integral part of the nursing uniform, and these St Bartholomew's nurses have added party hats to accessorise their uniforms
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #HistNursing #FestiveClothes
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A Victorian era print of a fashionably dressed lady. She wears a yellow silk dress with subtle details and white lace cuffs and collar with a red rose in the centre. She also has two large gold necklaces and dangling golden earrings, with red and white roses in her elaborate hairstyle.
A Victorian print of a fashionably dressed lady. Her blonde hair is in a thick plait at the top of her hair adorned with a large white rose. A golden cross on a black ribbon hangs round her neck with a larger golden necklace below, and dangling gold earrings hang from her ears. Her dress is a mid indigo colour with white stripes on the sleeves and elaborate white collar and cuffs.
These ladies are ready for Christmas party season in their gorgeous #FestiveClothes! Found in a Victorian scrapbook, the colour on these prints is still amazingly vivid. We're glad to live in a era of less elaborate hairstyles, though. #ArchiveAdventCalendar
Photo of Woman’s Own magazine with an illustration of a woman dressed in a red and white Fairisle cardigan, bonnet and mittens.
Hoping to see our visitors kitted out in matching Christmas jumpers with matching hats and gloves today! Take some inspiration from the lovely set on this 1950 issue of Woman’s Own from our collection ❄️ #FestiveClothes #ArchiveAdventCalendar
Bronze sculpted bust of trade union leader Tom Mann, in the Modern Records Centre exhibition space. He is wearing a large red and black knitted hat and some white tinsel as a scarf.
Nothing escapes the festive decorators here
The supervisor of our exhibition space, Tom Mann, is currently sporting a winter hat (in colours appropriate to his early political writings) and tinsel scarf
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Two ladies dressed in fancy dress, large top hats and bow ties
Four ladies dressed in fancy dress with a pantomime background
Two ladies with a pantomime horse between them
Seven people on stage in fancy dress
Day 12 #ArchiveAdventCalendar
#FestiveClothes
All these wonderful photos of various productions are thanks to Eve. Dates are from the days she trained at Whitchurch Hospital (1948-1951)
#EYAFestive
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Red printed cover of a 'Clothing Book'. It is dated 1947-48 and the holder's name has been filled in as H H Hobson from Belper.
A page of clothing tokens with the title 'Magenta Coupons'.
During clothes rationing everyone would have needed to be very inventive in order to dress up in #FestiveClothes. This clothing ration book dates from 1947-48 and belonged to H H Hobson from Belper.
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Brrr, its cold outside. What #FestiveClothes can we put on to keep warm? Today is also #ChristmasJumperDay. Are you wearing one in the office?
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