When Grannie Was a Girl!

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

144

Date Released

6 Mar 1924

Length of issue (in feet)

850

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

Pathe Intertitles - "We hear so much (and see so little) of "flappers" clothes today - what about the things which Grannie used to wear in the saucy ‘seventies?" One shot
"Imagine hugging Grandma when she wore sleeves like these -!" One shot
"And when you had a bustle, sitting on a tack was painless!"

Researcher Comments

A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.

Keywords

Fashion and costume

Written sources

J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001) p129.
Pathe Eve 131-169 Boxfile Issue sheet

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Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

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