1950s Fashion show on glasses. The models appear in different wardrobe, adapted to the glasses models. Wonderful 50s hat fashions, costumes and makeup in the trendy colors. Pearls of elegant… Read More
Traditional India Panka-Wallah costume. Indian servant.
Dress of a Panka-Wallah (पङ्खा वाला), Indian servant. A punkah, from Hindi Pankha ‘fan’ in Sanskrit पकशक pakśaka, refers to a large piece of cloth or other material hanging from the… Read More
Sarojini Naidu. Indian feminist and poet. The Nightingale of India.
Sarojini Naidu “The Nightingale of India” was a confidant of Mahatma Gandhi and a key figure in the independence movement and had repeated in captivity.
Young Ladies from Bombay in native costume
Group of girls from Bombay (Mumbai), c.1900.
Traditional India Coolie in 1897. Hindu girl.
Traditional Indian Coolie in 1897. Hindu girl.
Hindu priests 1897. North Indian Brahmins clothing.
Hindu priests in 1897. Traditional Hindu priest costumes. North Indian Brahmins clothing.
Hired laborer. India Man and Wife Coolies in 1900.
Hired laborer. India Coolis. Man and wife in 1900.
Traditional Jewish women dress.
Jewish girl from Morocco in 1869. Original by Émile Vernet-Lecomte (1821–1900) Titel: “Beauté orientale”.
A Singing Girl of Kashmir c. 1910.
A female Singer from Kashmir. Indian traditional costume c. 1910.
A retainer of the Maha Rao of Kutch.
Traditional costume of Gujarat state in western India.