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Rough date of photo

Donna

master brummie
Hello, can anybody date this photo of George Arthur and Theresa Howell, my gt grandparents (on left) and their daughter Olive's parents-in-laws, Mr and Mrs Harvey. George and Theresa born roughly 1890's.
Thanks
Donna
 
Nice photo Donna. Going by clothing and hairstyles I would say late l930's maybe early l940's.
 
howell photo

Thanks for this. Do you know if lots of people had fox furs or did you have to be money people?
Thanks
Donna
 
Hi Donna: Many women owned fox furs years ago and they weren't "moneyed" people. Perhaps the fashion started with more expensive varieties
of furs.
At my church in Erdington,as a child I sat behind several women on Sundays who had fox furs on their coats complete with one or two fox heads.:Aah: My own Mother had such a "collar". I once kidnapped it and took it for a ride in my dolls pram. Scary things though.
 
Here's one of my Grandma and Granddad about 1920 just look at her fur whatever it is!
 
I re jigged your photo Donna.

I agree with Jennyann, 1940's They didn't wash the furs, uness they were coats, and they could be sent away for specialist cleaning. I have my mother in laws little 'tippet' that I found when she died in the 90's.She had kept it for so long that I couldn't throw it out. It sits in our hall on the hall stand by the side of my father in laws bowler hat.
 
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Moma P....that looks like an oversize muff in the photo you posted. I remember at winter weddings after the war bridesmaids often sported muffs.
I remember having one. It wasn't real fur and was threaded on a silken cord
so that you could wear it round your neck. I was very young at the time.
 
Jennyann I thought it was a muff but it's so big I suppose it was fashionable then. I had a muff when I was bridesmaid at my brothers wedding. I also have a couple of fur collar tops that my mother wore on her wedding day I couldn't throw them out but they seem a bit gory now!
 
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