Posting for Louise ~ Date and Restore Please ~ Jane Oxley Ingham

[Treetotal]

I am very interested in getting a dating of this photo. If anyone would like to also do some restoration, that would be lovely as well. It's a photo of Jane, who was the wife of a wealthy timber merchant. She's dressed to "the nines" and although I can't really see all the details, I do see beading on her dress, the silver handle of what may be a parasol, and fine kid gloves. This extreme dress elevates this rather "plain Jane" to another level. She was born 1836 and died 1922.


Thank you,
Louise in California

[jim1]

I think the caption for this is, if you've got it flaunt it.
A heavily stylised 1880's outfit.
Her hat called a Toke was very popular during that decade.

jim

[en2gen]

Do you think Jane would be approaching age 50 then (being born in 1836/37)? She looks younger to me. I suppose all that "beady" stuff is attached to the dress. How heavy and uncomfortable this must have been. Give me a cashmere jumper and leggings any day. I would not have made a good Victorian woman!

Louise

[madpat]

I would have thought she was in her thirties perhaps forties but certainly not fifty!

[en2gen]

That's pretty much the age I had estimated as well; so if she was born in 1836 she would be age 30 in 1866 and age 44 in 1880. Does this help further fine tune the date of the photo?

Louise

[Treetotal]

I thought you might like to see where she took her afternoon tea...photos of Headingly Hall courtesy of Louise.

Carol

[Treetotal]

...and where she would have entertained....Beautiful 
Carol

[terry h]

Couple from me.....what an outfit, it's got everything

Terry

[en2gen]

Oh lovely....thank you. Very nice and clear now. And that's exactly what I thought but you have started it so well. This outfit "has everything". Can you imagine going to the seaside (Scarborough) in a getup like this?!!!

Louise