Fashion

Fashion in Jersey
over the decades

At the beach bungalow in Victorian times

As far as we know, all these pictures were taken in Jersey. They show the changes in ladies', mens' and children's fashion over the decades and are some of the best examples from our collection

See all the pictures in our slideshow and hundreds more in our review of Jersey fashions from the 1850s to 1930s - just click here

Fashion in the 1960s

At the pool in the 20s and 30s

Pictures from a 1935 holiday album, what the well-to-do were wearing on holiday in the 'thirties

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  Ladies of the Jersey Green Room Club in 1950s dresses in 1976
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  A fashion show by girls of Les Quennevais School in the 1960s

A 1968 fashion show by Simon Bernette, of Halkett Street

Beach fashions in 1922 ...

... and in 1923 ...

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... and in 1935 ...

'Bathing Beauties', a picture from the Jersey Leader

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On St Brelade's Bay beach

What smartly dressed holidaymakers were wearing for outings in 1959

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'Paris fashions', 1952

This set of photographs was sent to us labelled 'Paris fashion shoot in Jersey in 1952'. The photographs are not of sufficient quality, either the images themselves or the poses, for them to have been the work of a professional photographer, but they were definitely taken in Jersey and provide a fascinating glimpse of the fashions of the time.

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The model in a holiday snap taken at Snow Hill; perhaps her companion took the pictures above

De Gruchy fashion shows, 1970s

The annual fashion shows at A de Gruchy and Co's King Street store were always sold out in the 1970s. These pictures were taken in 1973 and 1975

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Advertising photographs from 1978

These photographs were taken by Jersey Evening Post photographers in 1978 for an advertising client

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General gallery

Dressed for the beach in 1906?

And another two ladies on the beach in this undated photograph from around the turn of the 20th century

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  On the beach in 1929
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  1929 beachwear
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  1937
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  An outing to St Malo in the 1920s
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  1925
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  Market women in 1856
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  A 'peasant woman' from an 1856 guidebook - would a 21st century guidebook dare describe a farm worker as a 'peasant'?
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  A group of Jersey ladies wearing French costumes in 1937
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  An 1862 bride
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  A Jersey couple in 1864
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  Pre-war fashion at West Park - picture taken in 1937
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  Bikinis in St Aubin's Bay in 1976 - Picture Jersey Evening Post
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  Traditional Jersey costumes
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  The traditional Jersey headdress
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  1875 fashion
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  Bridesmaids in the 1880s
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  1880s
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  Mrs Burne, photographed by Ernest Baudoux in the 1870s
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  1880s
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  1880s
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  Paddling at Greve de Lecq in 1920
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  A night out in 1955 - picture by Leica Shots, a successful business in this era
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  On the beach in 1958
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  1955 beachwear
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  1935 photograph in the Jersey Leader

On the beach at St Brelade's Bay in the late 1940s

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  1880s
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  1880s
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  Cricketers in 1890
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  A 19th century christening robe - these were handed down from generation to generation
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  Three photographs by Stroud of Victorian girls in their first communion dress
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  Miss D Godfray in Victorian dress
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  Miss A Beazley in Victorian dress
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  Dressed for the beach in Victorian times
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  At the seaside c 1870
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  At the seaside c 1870

Jersey bonnets in 1917

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  At the seaside c 1870
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  A fashionable boy in 1900
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  Sunday best for a tandem ride
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  A lady cyclist photographed by Albert Smith
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  Jersey bonnet
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  A picture by Edwin Dale of a woman on a swing
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  Lady cyclists on a country outing
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  Edwardian ladies in their best dresses
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  Le Cras sisters, 1895
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  What well-dressed young footballers were wearing in 1908 - George Bartlett and friends
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  1905
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  Corbiere, 1910
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  A Salvation Army couple in 1910
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  Few ladies drove in Edwardian times but many posed at the wheel for a photographer

A family group in the 1910s

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  All the ladies wore hats at this St Martin wedding in 1910
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  A picture by Edwin Dale showing what the well-dressed young Jerseywoman was wearing in 1912
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  Edwardian lady cyclists
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  Young passengers on a ferry in 1917:Note that all were wearing hats
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  On the rocks behind Mont Orgueil Castle, probably 1920s
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  Well-dressed ladies in the crowd at a 1920s race meeting
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  1920s swimwear
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  A 1920s family
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  On the beach in the 1920s
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  On the beach in the 1920s
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  Young holidaymakers meet a policeman in 1930
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  Swimwear in the 1930s - these three ladies were champion divers
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  Mini skirts were not an invention of the '60s. This picture was taken 30 years earlier ...
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  ... but not every woman was wearing short skirts in 1935
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  A fashionable young lady in the 1930s
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  1930s fashion at Mont Orgueil Castle
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  1936 summer wear
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  1938 holidaymaker
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  Mother and daughter on holiday in 1938
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  A 'Happy Snaps' photograph of a group of well-dressed people in Howard Davis Park shortly after it opened in 1939

1912 glamour picture by Edwin Dale

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  1920s
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  A wedding couple in the 1920s
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  1967 beach fashion
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  1962 at the Weighbridge
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  A 1967 magazine fashion photograph
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  A 1970s model
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  Transair hostesses in the 1950s ...
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  ... and British Caledonian girls in the 1970s
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  A Jersey Surf Board Club fashion shoot in 1974
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  A family group in the 1950s
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  Lily Smith posing for a formal portrait in 1895
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  At Havre des Pas Pool in 1936
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  1860s family portrait
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  Revlon Girls in 1974
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  All dressed up for a family portrait in 1910
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  1912
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  On the beach at St Brelade's Bay
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  1923
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  1930s at Gorey
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  A delightful photograph of 19th century children by Hamilton Toovey
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  1926
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  1950s holidaymakers' fashion
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  An egg-and-spoon race on the beach in the 1950s
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  A well-dressed young boy at Snow Hill in 1949
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  1930s dresses

The well-dressed crowd at a Coronation fete in 1911

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  Mrs Spofforth photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mrs Cave photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  A risque 1870s portrait byErnest Baudoux
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  Cornwell children photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Miss Beel photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Miss Miller photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Major George Simmons photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mrs Cardwell photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mrs Cane photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mr Cane photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mrs Woodward photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mrs Brown photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Masster Baker photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Misses Johnson photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Cardwell boys photographed by Ernest Baudoux

1946 beauty competition

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  Miss Seymour photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mrs Herabeth photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mrs Archer photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Miss Fraser photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Miss Woods photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Miss Pigott photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mrs Paquet and her children photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Miss Jerome photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mr Pearce photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Miss Pearce photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mrs Logan photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Sgt J F Baker photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  An unnamed bride photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Miss Williams photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mrs Brown photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Miss Harrison photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  James du Jardin photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mrs Nixon photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Miss Scott photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Mr and Mrs Lamb photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  General Bristow photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Miss Munn photographed by Ernest Baudoux
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  Holidaymakers in 1965
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  A family on the beach by de Faye

The only information we have about this fascinating picture is that the young ladies were Miss Makenny, Miss Amy, Mrs A Blatchford, M Hanley, Miss M le Feuvre, Miss J Boielle and Miss G Aldridge

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  Col James Draper
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  Constance Draper
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  What the well-dressed Jersey milkmaid was wearing in 1905 - or so we are told!
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  Captain Holt and Lucy, 1910s
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  Jack and Janet Wilson
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  Jack Smith, c1915
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  John Harvey, 1866
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  Lucie Holt, 1892
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  Mrs Brown, 1860s
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  Rosie Steen, 1892
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  Whittel family in 1919
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  E St John
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  A Masters, 1868
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  Miss Mainwaring, 1863
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  Lucy Borwing, c1875
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  1899
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  Hector Bourdert, by Baudoux
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  Robert Stevens
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  A priest in 1878, by Baudoux
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  Price family wedding in 1890

Smartly dressed for a group portrait in 1914

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  1920s
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  1900s
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  Larbalestier 'Beach Snap' from 1931
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  1931
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  On a see-saw in 1935
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  Percival Dunham photograph, 1910s
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  On the beach in 1905
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  Disco fashion in the 1980s
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  Hats were the height of fashion around 1900
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  A family dressed in their Sunday best for a 1910 portrait
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  Late 1950s
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  At Mont Orgueil Castle in the 1920s
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  At Mont Orgueil Castle in the 1920s
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  At Greve de Lecq in the 1920s
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  At Greve de Lecq in the 1920s
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  At Greve de Lecq in the 1920s
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  Mrs David Dumosch and Sambo in the 1920s
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  At Elizabeth Castle in the 1920s
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  At Grosnez Castle in the 1920s
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  1949

The latest word in 1949 fashions. Geraldine Garnier, nee Vautier, walking down Conway Street in a dress bought for her in Paris by her mother

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  1949
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  Bathing beauties in the 1930s
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  Bathing beauties in 1952
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  Beach fashion in the 1890s
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  A very posh wedding in the 1910s
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  A smartly dressed foursome outside an unidentified public house in 1921
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  1960 holidaymakers
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  1960 at Portelet
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  1950s
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  On the beach at Millbrook in 1925
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  On the beach at Millbrook in 1925
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  1925, apparently a fishing party
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  A family wearing Jersey bonnets
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  Jersey bonnet in the farmyard
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  Jersey bonnet in the field
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  Alicia Godfray at Paul Mill
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  White Edwardian dresses
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  Children on the promenade at St Aubin in 1939
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  1934 beach fashion
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  1934
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  At the sand races in 1962
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  1973
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  Denise Osborne, 'Miss Battle of Flowers' in 1971, modelling lingerie
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  Holidaymakers at Havre des Pas in 1933
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  On the beach in the ...
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Mini skirts in 1971 - Linda, Janet, Eileen and Davina at the Flamingo nightspot

1929 beach fashions

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  Eileen Tarrant
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  Eileen Tarrant
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  Sybil White
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  Sybil White