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Not since the Middle Ages have the ancient traditions of fancy dress been so potent.

Benjamin Wild | Published in History Today Volume 71 Issue 3 March 2021

Left: ‘Fine Gent Dressed as Red Indian Chief’, c.1910 © Grenville Collins Postcard Collection/Tom Gilmor/Mary Evans Picture Library. Middle: George J. Nicholls dressed as a side of bacon. Courtesy Benjamin Wild. Right: Dora Langroyd dressed as fireworks, the Sketch, 1898.© Illustrated London News/Mary Evans Picture Library.
Left: ‘Fine Gent Dressed as Red Indian Chief’, c.1910 © Grenville Collins Postcard Collection/Tom Gilmor/Mary Evans Picture Library. Middle: Dora Langroyd dressed as fireworks, the Sketch, 1898.© Illustrated London News/Mary Evans Picture Library. Right: George J. Nicholls dressed as a side of bacon. Courtesy Benjamin Wild. 

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