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Title: Period Dress ?
Post by: alan w jones on Thursday 10 May 18 07:08 BST (UK)
Hello ,I wondered if anyone might have an idea about the date of this photo judging by the clothes and hat please ?
Regards
Alan
Title: Re: Period Dress ?
Post by: Viktoria on Thursday 10 May 18 08:55 BST (UK)
I`d say around  early 1900`s to early  1920`s,The next style had  short simple shift-like dresses and cloche hats."Flappers"- after WW1.
A younger woman may have been a bit more in fashion so it could have been taken as late as 1920`s.
I`m thinking of wedding photographs when the more mature women were still in the  style fashionable before the wedding date. There are some in my family ,the bride in a 1920`s tube dress  also the bridesmaids but the mature women dressed in the style fashionable some years before.Hope this helps you to have at least some idea of the time.
                                                                     Viktoria.
Title: Re: Period Dress ?
Post by: Mowsehowse on Thursday 10 May 18 08:58 BST (UK)
As no one else has had a punt so far, and bearing in mind it is difficult to tell having no skirt or footwear to help, I would go for early 20th Century..... Edward VII.   :-\

When I make this kind of comment it always opens the flood gates for people telling me I am wrong, so watch this space.......
Title: Re: Period Dress ?
Post by: mckha489 on Thursday 10 May 18 09:15 BST (UK)
Think Mary Poppins.
Early twentieth century. I’m going for 1910.
Title: Re: Period Dress ?
Post by: alan w jones on Thursday 10 May 18 09:16 BST (UK)
Thank you both , really helpful , I see the number 462 above and below her , do you think it might be a passport photo or maybe one from a booth ?
Regards
Alan
Title: Re: Period Dress ?
Post by: Treetotal on Thursday 10 May 18 09:19 BST (UK)
I would say late Edwardian as hat size started to decrease. It could be a passport photo or some form of ID card.
Carol
Title: Re: Period Dress ?
Post by: alan w jones on Thursday 10 May 18 09:36 BST (UK)
Thanks , any idea of her age ?
Regards
Alan
Title: Re: Period Dress ?
Post by: mckha489 on Thursday 10 May 18 09:54 BST (UK)
Not passport, not allowed to have a hat on, and I don’t think you ever were.
In any case I don’t think, someone may know better, that passports were commonly held until after WW1
Title: Re: Period Dress ?
Post by: alan w jones on Thursday 10 May 18 09:56 BST (UK)
I was wondering if this could be her as well ? or same era ?
Regards
Alan
Title: Re: Period Dress ?
Post by: mckha489 on Thursday 10 May 18 10:21 BST (UK)
No. Look at her ear lobes
Title: Re: Period Dress ?
Post by: McGroger on Thursday 10 May 18 11:03 BST (UK)
A different - younger - lady, but certainly the same era: as Carol indicated for the first photo, late Edwardian, and I think the hair style worn by the second lady started in about 1907.
Peter