#FestiveClothes
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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December 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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 😆❄️
December 12, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Today's theme is #FestiveClothes, so time for some Winter Woolies. 😂

(Sorry for the awful pun. 🫣)

Date: JAN 1982

Ref: GD/X1384 Dundee City Centre Tray 1

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #Dundee #Archives
December 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Party dresses for Christmas celebrations at the Lea Bridge Gas Works, c.1945. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #FestiveClothes @arascot.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 6:59 AM
December 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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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December 12, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Don't forget when it's chilly outside, and you are driving around in your open top car (campaigning for Winston Churchill), to remember your driving mittens!

Date: December 1910

Ref: GD/X1020

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #FestiveClothes
December 12, 2024 at 8:15 AM
During carol services nurses used to turn their wool capes inside-out to show the red lining at Christmas #FestiveClothes #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 12, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Janis Ian's stage boots, worn presumably during the Christmas period???

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #FestiveClothes @arascot.bsky.social www.berea.edu/janisian
December 12, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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
December 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #FestiveClothes
December 12, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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.

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #history #WW2 #WW2
December 12, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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
December 12, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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.

#WhitchurchHospital
#HospitalChristmas
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
❄️ #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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December 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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
#hospitalpanto
#whitchurchhospital
December 12, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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.

#FestiveClothes #ArchiveAdventCalendar
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Please enjoy this image of Santa and Frosty the Snowman which for a little while had been mis-described on our catalogue as "ghost costume"

#Archives #HistMed #FestiveClothes #Costumes #Snowman #Santa
December 24, 2023 at 11:01 AM
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!).

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #FestiveClothes

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December 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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
December 12, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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.
December 12, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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
December 12, 2024 at 11:00 AM
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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
December 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM