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The Fashion Guide
to Season 4 (1965-6)

of

The Avengers
Page 7

The Fashions

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd

Black long sleeved top with black hipster pants and black and white boots, worn with a honeycomb patterned head scarf and snakeskin jacket.

Worn in Silent Dust

The jacket is worn in The Danger Makers over both the vinyl-faced stretch jersey catsuit and a shorter length version of the jacket is also worn with leather pants and a dark top (see image bottom near right for the jacket length); both times with Edward Rayne's black & white boots.

©1961-9
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©1961-9
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Dream sequence:
He is dressed as a Western Sheriff, dressed only in his long johns, with his star pinned to them.
She is dressed as a Western town saw-bones - complete with rose-tinted glasses, bottle of rotgut and bowie knife.

Worn in Silent Dust

©1961-9
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©1961-9
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Mrs Peel wraps herself in a sheet when she poses for Clare Prendergast, and hoiks it up a few times as it threatens to reveal all.

Worn in Silent Dust

©1961-9
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©1961-9
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She wears formal women's hunt gear: khaki jodhpurs, black blazer and riding helmet (female type, with elastic), white blouse and woollen mittens with knee-high riding boots. Initially she wears a Burberry. [near right, bottom]

He wears his riding pinks, with a silk topper, white shirt and cravat, white riding breeches and tan-topped black riding boots.

Worn in Silent Dust

©1961-9
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©1961-9
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Two-tone salmon jacket with crenellated hem fastened by a single frog across the sternum, worn with a matching knee-length skirt, bright pink scarf and pale pink blouse.

Worn in Room without a View

©1961-9
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©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd
Vinyl jacket with synthetic fur collar and hem, worn over a thigh-length grey marle dress, accompanied by black leather gloves, and her hair up.

Worn in Room without a View

©1961-9
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©1961-9
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White fine cotton blouse with loose long sleeves with long tight cuffs, three buttons down them. The blouse is buttoned up the back. Worn with plain black trousers and black heels.

Worn in Room without a View

©1961-9
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©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd
Waiter's uniform - white double breasted short skirted jacket, white shirt, black bow tie and straight black trousers.
The picture on the left shows both Steed in disguise, and the waiter he took it from. Does anyone know the name of this extra? He turns up everywhere but is never credited.

Worn in Room without a View

©1961-9
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©1961-9
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Cream or bone cotton hipster pants with two black stripes at the cuff, worn with a white PVC raincoat with metal fastenings, a sleeveless black top, black and white driving gloves and matching beret, topped off with Edward Rayne's black and white boots.
This outfit is a variation on Bates' "Target".

Worn in Small Game for Big Hunters and The House that Jack Built (with the honeycomb head scarf).
The PVC jacket was worn in How to Succeed at Murder with a white rollneck top and herringbone hipsters, accessorised with her two-tone driving gloves and black & white boots.

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd


©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd
The outfit above, without the coat and beret, revealing a thick white belt being worn with the cream hipsters.

Worn in Small Game for Big Hunters

©1961-9
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©1961-9
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Another variation on the outfit above, here worn with a black belt and cream long-sleeved roll-neck blouse with unfastened cuffs.
The jacket is piped with a contrasting black, chevrons around the button holes and a false belt with black diamonds either side of the buttons. the jacket's cuffs have two black stripes to match the hipsters.

Worn in The Danger Makers and What the Butler Saw [briefly with sunglasses, bottom right]
The coat was also worn in How to Succeed at Murder with herringbone hipsters with a thick white belt, and the black sleeveless top above.

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd


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