Fashion & Design - Fashion

To Dress Extravagantly in War Time

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Join the Wrens - and Free a Man for the Fleet

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Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring

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Women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in flying kit at Hatfield, 10 January 1940.

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A Cecil Beaton portrait of a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service equipped for gardening duties.

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War Weapons Week in a Country Town

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Why Not Wear Something White Instead?

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Women Wanted as Ambulance Drivers

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Pauline Gower, Commandant of the Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Section, waving from the cockpit of a de Havilland Tiger Moth at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, prior to a delivery flight, 10 January 1940.

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A Cecil Beaton portrait of a cook in the Women's Royal Naval Service.

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Please Get There ... and Back! - Be Careful What You Say or Write

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Make-Do and Mend

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Go Through Your Wardrobe - Make-Do and Mend

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Join the ATS

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Make Do and Mend

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Camouflaged Cooling-towers

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Mrs Redmond of Orford in Suffolk wearing her late husband's medals. She was also a member of various Civil Defence organisations, as can be seen from the badges she is wearing.

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Mrs D Cheatle from Sheffield operating a capstan lathe at a munitions factory in Yorkshire during 1942.

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A group of women enjoy a drink and share a joke at the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon, Benbighshire, Wales, 1944.

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Mrs Edith Digby, an Air Raid Warden on duty in Bermondsey, London during the Second World War.

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A member of the Women's Royal Air Force at a plotting board at an RAF station, circa 1960.

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A female member of Air Raid Precautions staff applies her lipstick between emergency calls.

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Gladys Wilburn, a motor boat driver with the Women's Royal Naval Service, in her boat, the 'BALMACAAN', with her spaniel dog, Southwick, Sussex, 1918.

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A sister and a matron from Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service during the First World War.

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