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Fashion in blitzed London

A model, wearing a brick red suit and black velvet blouse by Jacqmar, trimmed with propeller shaped buttons stands incongruously among the bombed ruins of a London street during World War Two

Picture No
14029733
Media ID
47840899
Size
3915px x 5129px (1.9MB)
Credit
© The Estate of Nancy Sandys Walker / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Nancy Sandys Walker (1910-1988) for Harper's Bazaar, July and August issue, 1941
Date
1941

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