Comments on: Women Of The Old East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/20/women-of-the-old-east-end/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:57:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/20/women-of-the-old-east-end/#comment-1202062 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:57:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164141#comment-1202062 A formidable looking group of women, wearing some wonderful fashions made from some pretty sumptuous materials

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/20/women-of-the-old-east-end/#comment-1196909 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 07:03:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164141#comment-1196909 I don’t really have a favourite but a few of them do remind me of the famous East End drag queen Dockyard Doris.

]]> By: Sue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/20/women-of-the-old-east-end/#comment-1196794 Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:31:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164141#comment-1196794 Wow, there is some serious corsetry going on there!

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/20/women-of-the-old-east-end/#comment-1196767 Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:56:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164141#comment-1196767 These ladies would have been the “posh” ones, the upper class people mainly lived in the large houses along Bow Road and Tredegar Square. The ordinary East Enders could not afford the luxury of photography, after the rent man had taken his money they had little left to live on.
Gary

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/20/women-of-the-old-east-end/#comment-1196763 Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:30:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164141#comment-1196763 The history-of-costume mavens applaud!
And my waistline and midriff ache, just looking at these constrained women.
Oh, just imagine how good it must have felt to get out of these corsets at the end of the day!?

All of that aside…….what amazing FACES. I wanted to know each and every story.
Thanks for shining a light.

]]> By: Liz https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/20/women-of-the-old-east-end/#comment-1196758 Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:43:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164141#comment-1196758 Wonderfull,what a differance it makes when things are in a collection and relate to one another. I spend time at Dimbola lodge,the former home of Julia Margaret Cameron now a study centre and museum, we are so lucky to be able to see the past through photography.

]]> By: Vicky https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/20/women-of-the-old-east-end/#comment-1196754 Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:16:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164141#comment-1196754 The evolution of the female smile. It began to appear about 1870, before then being very much frowned upon. By 1940 it had fully developed.

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