Identity area
Reference code
IE LMOD 289
Title
1950s Fashion shoot on Baggot Street by Colman Doyle
Date(s)
- Twentieth Century (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
Photographic paper, ink. 50 x 58 cm
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
06/07/2011
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Print of a black and White photo of three models Dorothy Flynn, Peggy Cullen and Betty Whelan around a car taken on Baggot Street by Colman Doyle.
Models Dorothy Flynn, Peggy Cullen and Betty Whelan strike a pose for Colman Doyle at the top of Baggot Street. Betty Whelan, who had modelled for Christian Dior, founded her own modelling agency here in 1952. She was Arnotts’ regular hat model, the lady who launched a thousand hats, and a regular guest on the Late Late Show.
