Have a Merry Christmas
DECEMBER 2023 If you need inspiration for this year’s Christmas card look no further. Thought to date from around 1877...
A fan and his dog
NOVEMBER 2023 Laurette Laman Trip from Leiden in The Netherlands has an eagle eye that saw the image on a fan in...
Never mind the width feel the quality
OCTOBER 2023 This interesting pair of Pinkham gloves turned up recently in Cambridge. What is so interesting is the cream card label attached...
A touch of elegance
SEPTEMBER 2023 The saying coined by Leslie Pinkham in a 1950s advert A touch of Elegance could not be better exemplified than by this...
The age of chivalry
AUGUST 2023 Captured on this postcard is the era when kind behaviour, especially by men towards women was not unusual....
Start spreading the news
JULY 2023 Not vagabond shoes but Pinkham Gloves in these 1955/6 adverts from the New Yorker Magazine. The mid 1950s was one of...
Rings and things and buttons and bows
JUNE 2023 ...well bows at least. This fabulous pair of Pinkham gloves in black Helanca with cream bows is surely the company’s manufacturing at...
The Coronation of King Charles III
MAY 6th 2023 “When all at once I saw a crowd with hands adorned in gloves, O that I were...
Fashion beyond gloves
MAY 2023 This Pinkham blouse made in the early 1960s turned up in a charity shop in Huddersfield and then laid in...
The lost glove – we’ve all done it
APRIL 2023 This delightful cartoon titled The Lost Glove from the February 1932 edition of Punch Magazine must resonate with many people. There's a...