Wallflower Dispatches

Jodhpurs Photograph Nr. 46 by Gwyneth Paltrow photographed by Mario Testino wearing Salvatore Ferragamo silk jodhpurs from his Spring 2010 RTW collection as seen in Vogue UK May 2010 issue

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Jodhpurs Nr. 44 by Kawashima Yoshiko
Kawashima Yoshiko (1906-1948) whose Chinese name was Aisin Gioro Xianyu, with the courtesy name Dongzhen (= Eastern Jewel).
Her father, Shanqui, was the tenth Prince Su, who briefly ruled the Manchu of Inner Mongolia.
As Shanqui’s thirteenth child, she was given to Kawashima Naniwa, a Japanese military advisor when she was eight [...]

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Jodhpurs Nr. 43 by Lady Amanda Harlech, Karl Lagerfeld’s collaborator for Chanel
See also  Teresa Cannatà’s interview and video with Harlech in Vogue Italia’s March 2010 issue

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Jodhpurs Nr. 42 by Audrey Hepburn in 1959 wearing jodhpurs and a classic black turtleneck jumper in preparation for the film “The Unforgiven”

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Jodhpurs Nr. 40 – 1930s Cowgirls

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Jodhpurs Nr. 39 by Laura Ashley (vintage) for an advertising campaign, Spring early 1990s

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Jodhpurs Photograph Nr. 38 sporting white jodhpurs by the 23rd Cavalry Polo Team in 1908 courtesy of the Mansell Collection

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Jodhpurs Photograph Nr. 36 by unknown model posing for the Kauffman & Sons* Catalogue in the 1930s. Tailoring by Nardi.
Funny how you can find similar riding boots at Hermès and shop Bottega Veneta for same-style belt.
*For years, Kauffman & Sons Saddlery was a New York Landmark. In 1875, the very same year the Coaching Club [...]

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Jodhpurs Photograph Nr. 35 by Daniel Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, Heir to the Second Earl of Stockton.
Seen in Vanity Fair in celebration of the painter John Singer Sargent who in 1922 painted Macmillan’s great-great-grandfather Maurice Macmillan  and his great-uncle Daniel Macmillan (whose brother Harold was Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963) in 1887.

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Jodhpurs Photograph Nr. 34 by three African girls in vintage jodhpurs, date unknown (note the perfect tailoring around the knee of the girl on the right)

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