Profession? Location? & Date Please.

[hastevenus]

I shall ask my oldies in the family, but i am sure that when they gave me the pics, they said that one was my nan and the other was unknown....   shall be intouch........

[terry h]

I was thinking of you this morning Terry, actually I'm reminded of you everyday as I pass Hastie St
Caz

Caz

Poor you, reminded of me every day  

So I have a  claim to a street  ........Some of mine did go to Australia, infact 2 seperate branches of my Hastie's had family go to there in the 1800's.... you never know

On the left handed theme my grandson is a leftie and for over a year now (his first year at school) they have been determined to make him right handed even after son and DIL have repeatedly told them he's left. Finally sorted now but he was one confused wee boy 

Terry

[jim1]

Have to say it looks the same to me too.Found this from 1918.

jim

[Gadget]

That's a match, Jim 

Where did you find it?

I've just found some of the restores that I did on this yesterday or Sunday and, since Christian seems to quite like us repairing, here are a couple - one straight and one with a bit of woven texture 


Gadget

[scrimnet]

I've seen that type of stocking before on period pics...

Now...I just need to remember the book they were in!

[Gadget]

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,411156.0.html


 



added - I think the Venus Family is the connection:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,184565.0.html

 

[Iggy]

I had a great aunt who had a pair of stockings very similar to those shown in the picture.  She was born in 1881 and assuming she wore them around age 20 or later, this would put the time frame around 1901- ?. 
Hope this helps.
Iggy

[IgorStrav]

I was just struck by the similarity of the dress, shoes and pose in this photo of mine (beautifully restored/coloured here on the Photo Restoration Board).

This is my great aunt Winifred Pay in about 1918.

 

[Phodgetts]

I have been wondering about the similarity of the dresses (which look to be variations on a theme) and wonder if they have been home made dresses made from book / paper patterns. The WI had books at the time with patterns in them;

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1918-dressmaking-made-easy-vintage-book

and the Girls Own Paper and Annual had style / fashion  advice and dress patterns in them in the 1800's. The paper ran from 1880 to 1941. Some might find the link below interesting

http://www.uea.ac.uk//~h720/GOP/

http://www.uea.ac.uk//~h720/GOP/images.shtml

The image is of my 1891 copy. I wanted one to see what my Great Aunts would have been reading when they were young. The paper was for young girls and young women, house keeping tips and wrinkles. Makes for fascinating reading especially the agony aunt columns. Some of the questions and answers are just so laughable. One such example was a young woman asking if it would be alright to give a male friend a nightdress case. The agony aunt was horrified at the suggestion with such an intimate kind of gift and even more worried that the recipient might even use it for his nightdress! How times have changed.