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This is a photo which was printed on a postcard. I am related to one of these ladies. Although I know I am unlikely to ever find out which one, can anyone maybe put a rough date to the picture?
It comes from a collection of my Mothers photographs, so it would have been taken in the Scottish borders somewhere.....
Aren't the hats fabulous!!!
Thanks!
Tx
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Gadget
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The hair styles looks 1900-1908 to me but I think the hats look later. So I'll say 1905-1910 to be on the safe side 
Lovely photo. i'm sure I've seen the person back left before.
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mudge
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Hi Tx
Here is a cleanup, not that it needed much doing to it
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Gadget
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I'd say late teens and early twenties.
That face - I'm sure i've either seen on this site or have done a restore on
Did any of them go to Australia?
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There is a chance that one of them went to New Zealand.... as My g.grandmother and her sister (both about the right age for the photo but neither are in it) used to receive things from a sister/cousin in New Zealand.... clutching at straws arent I.......
Tx
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Suttonrog
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I go along with Gadget.
The hats are big, but not enormous and there is still evidence of the puffed up sleeves at the shoulder - 1905 +/- 3.
Rog
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Gadget
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She is very haunting - I'm sure I've seen a photo of her before:
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Suttonrog
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China,
That is my understanding also. These hats are not BIG though, just large, they got to shoulder width. So earlier than 1910. Also look at the shoulders, these had gone by 1910.
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Don't forget that these ladies are most likely mill workers living in the scottish borders. So money would have been scarce. The fashions at best may have been a few years out of date and the coats would not have been brand new. And who is to say that the hats weren't borrowed for the picture..... This would explain the loose coats also, maybe borrowed also as their own 'Sunday Best' may not have been good enough for the photograph.... Just a thought...
And there seems to be some family resemblance between the lady bottom left and the lady top right. Or am I imagining it?
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..... let me know if you remember.... maybe it would be too good to be true to find out who any of the ladies are.