Could someone date the Davies family, please?

[HollyMM]

I have attached an image of the rather large family ("rather" being an understatement, as my great-great grandparents Charles Davies and Agnes Menase had 13 children!), and from the clothes, I am assuming something like the 1910s or early WW1, but I just wanted to be extra sure I had my guess right of the approximate time era this photo may have been taken.

Also: is the woman in the 2nd row, 2nd from the left (the lady with the pudding bowl shaped hat) wearing a shawl, or is it some sort of cardigan?

Thank you for any help you can offer!

[chinakay]

Hello Holly...I'd say right about 1910-ish, judging by the hats and the rest of the outfits. The "pudding-bowl" hat is actually a mushroom hat, pinned to the surface of a puffed-up hairdo called a pompadour, and not actually touching the head at all 

But I think she's just wearing a white blouse...

Cheers,
China

[PrueM]

I can't see a pudding-bowl shaped hat 

Anyway, the lady you point out is wearing a white blouse with some kind of necktie/shirtfront attached to it (I don't know the name) that sort of hangs down the front.

[HollyMM]

Hello Holly...I'd say right about 1910-ish, judging by the hats and the rest of the outfits. The "pudding-bowl" hat is actually a mushroom hat, pinned to the surface of a puffed-up hairdo called a pompadour, and not actually touching the head at all 

But I think she's just wearing a white blouse...

Cheers,
China

Thanks for that interesting info on the hat. Yeah, I'd agree about it being 1910-ish as well.

I can't see a pudding-bowl shaped hat 

Anyway, the lady you point out is wearing a white blouse with some kind of necktie/shirtfront attached to it (I don't know the name) that sort of hangs down the front.

Yeah, it looks like she's wearing something like that, something similiar to a shawl.

[Dave Hall]

Quick crop and tidy, plus the lady in question
Dave

[PrueM]

Yep, definitely a white blouse with some kind of necktie/cravat/bib thing tied around the neck and hanging down the front    Thanks for the closeup, Dave 

[Dave Hall]

Only here to help.
I bow to your knowlege Prue.
Dave

[Tom-Allan]

My Grandmother Ethel Mary Davies is the girl in the middle of the photo.

[chinakay]

Cool! Welcome to Rootschat, Tom-Allan.

The original poster hasn't been on the site for five years, but if you make two more posts (anything at all) you can send her a PM and she might get an email notification.

Cheers,
China