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How the British dress for work and play

Can't think what to wear this weekend ....Here's a few ideas !

 

Cumberland and Westmorland fighters

Wrestlers at the Grasmere Lakeland Sports & Show, 1903

 

Popular during 18th and 19th century but thought to have originated with the Vikings.

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Newhaven Fishwives - The Watt Girls

©  Reproduced with acknowledgement to LIz Grieve, Bristol, Avon, England

 

 Tenby Prawn sellers and fishwives

William Powell Smith.

National Museum of Wales

 

Wigan pit brow lassies

 

Tyneside keelmen

 

Filey flither pickers Bait gatherers

 

Fisherwomen of Fife, Scotland

 

Canals.

 

Pearly Kings and Queens

 

Gypsies