Original WW1 era portrait, group of pretty young women, all of similar age, in their late teens or early twenties, quite possibly college students, maybe teacher training, probably from the middle classes. They wear their hair up in chignon bun hairstyles, at the nape, so that hair looks short, a style typical of the WW1 period, each wearing a variation on the fashion for a blouse worn with a long skirt - different white blouses all with a brooch. Studio of Bagley, 44 North St. Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, Circa 1917-1919.
Embossed in the postcard is Bagley, 44 North St, Ripon. Other examples of photographer's work at this address are from WW1 era. As the girls are all of similar age, they are possibly students of the teacher training college at Ripon (moved from York to Ripon in 1862). Source: Wikipedia. Since opportunities for working class girls were limited well into the 20th century, it is probable these are middle class girls. Following the Education Act of 1918 which raised the school leaving age to 14, women were better educated. The Sex Disqualification Act of 1919 made it somewhat easier for women to go to university and take up professional jobs as teachers, nurses and a few even qualified as doctors. Middle class women benefited from these increased opportunities Source:
Size: 6753px × 4312px
Location: Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © ThislifeThen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: .., 1, 20, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1st, 20c, 20th, academic, academics, academy, adult, adults, archival, archive, archives, attractive, black, blouse, blouses, britain, brooch, brooches, byegone, bygone, career, careers, century, class, classes, classic, clothes, collar, collars, colleague, colleagues, college, colleges, curriculum, curriculums, dressed, educated, education, educational, educations, england, era, europe, european, europeans, fashion, fashionable, fashions, female, females, friend, friends, friendship, friendships, gb, girl, girlhood, girls, graduate, graduates, great, hair, hairstyle, hairstyles, harrogate, higher, historic, historical, image, images, job, jobs, kingdom, ladies, lady, ladys, middle, north, nostalgia, nostalgic, occupation, occupational, occupations, people, person, photo, portrait, portraits, pretty, profession, professions, progress, retro, ripon, shirt, shirts, student, students, studies, study, studying, style, styled, styles, styling, teacher, teachers, times, trained, training, twentieth, uk, united, vintage, vocation, vocational, vocations, war, wars, white, woman, womans, women, womens, working, world, ww, ww1, wwi, yorks, yorkshire, young, youth, youths
