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The Fashion Guide
to Season 4 (1965-6)

of

The Avengers
Page 1


Welcome to the Season Four Fashion guide!
This new guide includes Steed's clothes, a precursor of upcoming changes to Season Five perhaps.
The Fashions

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd
Black stretch cotton catsuit with vinyl facings front and back, fastened by buttons down the front. Usually worn with Edward Rayne's white boots with a black central stripe.
©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd


©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

Prince of Wales check jacket (grey with tan and green in the check), dark waistcoat with metal buttons, white shirt, dark tie, tan trousers, chelsea boots, bowler and umbrella
The bowler hats were exclusively made by Herbert Johnson & Sons, of 54 St. James Street - they now cost £300 each. The umbrellas (when they weren't prop substitutes to ensure a neat line) were James Smith & Sons whangee cane handle city umbrellas, now costing £165 each (you can see why they used props when necessary!).
This may have been one of Patrick Macnee's favourite suits - he wears it throughout the Cathy Gale seasons and on into the colour Emma Peel season.

Worn in The Town of No Return as described above.
Worn in The Gravediggers with a khaki shirt and a red paisley tie (right).
Worn in The Master Minds, The Murder Market and Quick-Quick Slow Death with a white shirt and red paisley tie, and dark bowler hat.
Worn in A Surfeit of H2O with a different paisley tie and a khaki or off-white shirt.
Worn in Dial a Deadly Number with a white shirt and dark tie, whangee handled umbrella and light grey bowler hat.
Worn in Maneater of Surrey Green with a white shirt and red paisley tie, dark bowler hat and Chelsea boots, briefly with the second overcoat.
Worn in Too Many Christmas Trees, briefly with the second overcoat.

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd


©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd
'TV' with mini skirt, stocking with a diamond pattern, patent leather pumps.

Worn in The Town of No Return.

©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd
'TV' with trousers

Worn in The Town of No Return.

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd
White dress with black stitching, long cuffs and padded shoulders.

Worn in The Town of No Return.

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd
Tan overcoat.

Worn in The Town of No Return and The Gravediggers.
Worn in Death at Bargain Prices with a black bowler and dark trousers and chelsea boots. Probably with a khaki shirt and dark tie.
Worn in The Master Minds over the grey three-piece suit and later on over the Prince of Wales check jacket and tan trousers with a white shirt and red paisley tie.
Worn in The Murder Market with leather gloves over a navy suit.
Worn in Maneater of Surrey Green over the brown suit. Worn in The Girl from Auntie with a brown bowler and brown suit
Worn in The Thirteenth Hole with a dark bowler
Worn in The Danger Makers over the brown suit with a brown bowler and black umbrella, briefly with a British Army helmet (near right).
Worn in A Touch of Brimstone with a brown bowler and black umbrella, over his dark suit, with a dark tie and white shirt.
Worn in The House that Jack Built over the brown suit
Worn in A Sense of History over his chalk stripe suit
Worn in How to Succeed at Murder over a dark suit.

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

She wears a thick woolen jacket with embroidered collar and cuffs, secured with frog and toggle, over a woolen sleeveless top and straight skirt. All with white court shoes and black leather gloves.

Worn in The Gravediggers.

He wears a brown serge suit, his waistcoat is high, with cloth covered buttons and wide lapels to match the jacket, which is single-breasted and double vented. Topped off with a black umbrella with whangee handle, black Chelsea boots and black bowler hat. A beige shirt and deep crimson tie with blue and orange flower pattern finish off the outfit.

Worn in The Gravediggers, The Cybernauts, The Master Minds, A Surfeit of H2O, Dial a Deadly Number, Maneater of Surrey Green, Room Without a View (also with a plain silk tie), The Girl from Auntie (with a plain tie), The Danger Makers and The House that Jack Built (patterned tie as described), How to Succeed at Murder (as described) and Honey for the Prince with a dark tie.

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd


©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd
Sleeveless blouse and pleated knee-length skirt with white shoes, worn outside with a black fur coat.

Worn in The Gravediggers.

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd
Suede-fronted cardigan, grey skivvy and slacks.

Worn in The Gravediggers, The Cybernauts (near right), Two's a Crowd

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd
Nurse's uniform

Worn in The Gravediggers.

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

Leather jumpsuit, zipped up the back with no breast, worn with leather boots and a black skivvy. Often worn with a matching leather jacket.

Worn in The Gravediggers, where it was briefly disguised by a surgical gown, cap and mask (below). See a colour image here.
Worn in The Cybernauts, both with and without the jacket.
Worn in Maneater of Surrey Green, in which the alien plant eats the jacket.

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd
Surgical gown, cap and mask. (Disguising the outfit above).

Worn in The Gravediggers.


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