MPX5080724: Clothing Fashion. A colourful new look now seen around Air Canada ticket counters is the result of a two year fashion project conducted by the airline and it's uniformed sales personnel. The final choice of colour style and material was based on answers to a 22-page questionnaire circulated among more than 1,5000 passenger agents and other uniformed employees. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5081513: One of the six student mountaineers making a horizontal attempt on Oxford Street today, was John Phipps who comes from the College of Estate Management, Kensington. He inched his way from Marble Arch using cracks between paving stones to pull himself along - all in aid of the Cancer Research charity. John Phipps doing his climb up the Pavement November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080442: Teachers in the Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne schools, if they were to casually walk near wayside Benwell, any afternoon after 4 p.m. would soon find the cause for that extra bit of unrest and anticipation towards the end of the days schooling... for "Uncle Andy" the toy man is at the kerbside displaying his Xmas fare. Andy Bell of Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, is "Uncle" to hundreds of kiddies in the area. Each afternoon his little black Van is packed to the roof with dolls, train sets , blackboards, modeling sets, mouth organs and everything the Toddlers could wish for. October 1949 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5075179: Fashion 1960s. The moll flanders look. All demure and frilled up to the eyebrows. That's the new look for bedtime as seen at the Angela Gore show of nightwear in Mayfair yesterday (15-9-64). "We were inspired by Moll Flanders - heroine of Daniel Defoe's novel - in her mobcap", says designer Angela Boyes, whose latest ideas include floor-length housecoats and dressing gowns in fine spot or check lawns in easy-care synthetics with nighties to match. And, of course, the mobcap matches, too. Seen here, a full length housecoat in green and white check Dacron that will be in the shops later this year at 12 guineas. September 1964 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5075144: Fashion 1960s. On Tuesday (5-12-67) Lord John presented a collection of 1968 hats named "Young trendsetting" by Denham and Hargrave. Lord John has literally shouted "old hat" to the conventional look in men's headwear and lauched the attack by creating a revolutionary 'new look' that younger men will go for in a big way. Made exclusively by Denham and Hargrave in Warwickshire, these designs will be sold throughout the world. (right) Trevor Flemming wearing a wool felt Regency hat with compartment for cigarettes. Price 47/6d. approximately and Peter Gregery in wool felt Regency trilby hat with transistor radio (inclusive) Price 90/- approximately. December 1967 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5075169: Set for Tennis - in a paper dress!. Look a tennis dress you wear once, then throw away! It is made of a "paper-plus" fabric The dress, which will be on sale in mid-March, startled an audience that included Christine Truman and other Wimbledon stars at Teddy Tinling's tennis wear show in London's West End yesterday For the time being there is just one style in this "paper-plus" fabric - the brief, button through Princess-line dress. The dresses are trimmed with lemon, lilac or sunshine orange colours with buttons dyed to match. Two of the new "paper" tennis dresses - which you wear once then throw away - being modellled in London yesterday January 1961 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5075238: Lovely Jenny Clare looks a real Southern belle in a full-skirted party dress by Kati. The tight-fitting bodice is plain red moire taffeta. The big puff sleeves and skirt are white taffeta splashed with big red roses. Price £29. Her straw hot, decked with red roses, is from Fenwicks. Bond Street, London, £5.50. Escort Derek Wayland wears wears a beige safari-style suit with flared trousers, in all-wool double jersey, price £27. His silk neckscarf costs £2.10 and broad-brimmed olive-green hat £4.50, all from Horne Bros. May 1972 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5075321: Hundreds of blind workers today staged a protest in Belgrave Square, London, for better wages. They want an increase of £1.5. a week on the £14.5s. Basic pay of 3,500 blind workers. At No. 41, Belgrave Square, a meeting was being held to discuss their wage claims. The Blind workers with their placards during the protest in Belgrave Square. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5075357: actress Francis Dean who lives in Fairfax Road, N.W.6., wears a maxi-coat and it is made of synthetic fur by astraka. She was out today with daughter Belinda (2) and Belinda found maxis very cosy indeed especially with today's weather. They were waiting for a No. 31 bus where the pictures were taken. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images