The Fashion Guide
to Season 4 (1965-6)

The Avengers
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The Fashions

Red/deep pink and black woolen jacket with black fur (possibly fake) collar and hem worn with matching skirt and black gloves, with black high heels (inside right). The jacket is fastened with three frogs.

Worn in The Cybernauts.	©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved

How do I know it's red and black? The jacket turns up again next season when Gabrielle Drake wears it in The Hidden Tiger. Here's a picture of it. Note that the fur hem has been removed.

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Pale grey single breasted three-piece suit, two vents, felted collar, with matching bowler hat (maker's mark near right), cloth covered buttons, slanted pockets. Worn with a white shirt and a pale knitted tie.

Worn in The Cybernauts.
Worn in Two's a Crowd with a pale metallic grey tie (later with a large pin which was a camera) and pale grey shirt.
Worn in Room Without a View with a pale metallic grey tie, grey bowler and gin coloured shirt, briefly with a red carnation in the lapel.
Worn in The Girl from Auntie with a pale metallic grey tie with glass pin, grey bowler, gin shirt and grey Chelsea boots.
Worn in The Danger Makers with a dark grey silk tie.
Worn in A Touch of Brimstone and What the Butler Saw with a pale grey bowler, grey umbrella, pale knitted tie and white shirt.
Worn in How to Succeed at Murder with a pale grey shirt, dark silk tie and grey bowler, and later with a pin striped shirt with city collar.
Worn in Honey for the Prince with a metallic silk tie and white shirt, with grey bowler.

©1961-9
CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved

Tailored wool suit with skirt. The jacket is tight at the waist with large chevron pockets over the hips, shoulder pads, fastened with four cloth buttons, and the hem forms a continuous curve from the button holes to the buttons. The skirt is also tight, and knee-length, Worn with black high heels, black leather gloves and a grey (?) roll-neck skivvy.

Worn in The Cybernauts, Too Many Christmas Trees [near right, where we have a good picture of the sweep of the skirt of the jacket back over the hips].

©1961-9

This is the outfit above, without the jacket and gloves.

Worn in The Cybernauts, Too Many Christmas Trees (with Steed's navy and white striped apron).

Karate pyjamas with pale belt (white or yellow?).

Worn in The Cybernauts.

©1961-9

Navy chalk stripe three-piece single breasted suit, single vent in jacket, three cloth buttons on chest, slit pockets. Matching waistcoat with six buttons. Worn with a white shirt and dark tie, with gemstone tiepin, and Chelsea boots.

Worn in The Cybernauts as described above.
Worn in Death at Bargain Prices with black bowler and molucca handle umbrella in addition to the above. [top two right]
Worn in The Murder Market with a dark paisley tie, black bowler and molucca handle umbrella.
Worn in Dial a Deadly Number with a navy tie with pin, then with a pale horizontally striped navy tie.
Worn in Two's a Crowd with the horizontally striped tie.
Worn in Room Without a View with a navy tie with pin.
Worn in Small Game for Big Hunters with a black bowler and umbrella, khaki silk shirt and regimental tie (diagonally striped, see the same tie and shirt with a different outfit here).
Worn in What the Butler Saw with a white shirt, black bowler and gunmetal tie.
Worn in A Sense of History with a white shirt, black bowler and dark tie, briefly with an academic gown.

Chinese jacket with straight skirt, gold pin fastening to top of the jacket.
the jacket has no collar, vent slits on the hips, and reaches to just below the waist. It is unfastened at the front and held at neck with a gold pin. Worn with a knee-length dress (long sleeved, probably also red, with a thin belt), and black stiletto heels.

Worn in The Cybernauts.

She wears a black textured double breasted coat, six brass buttons closing it, worn with a knee-length tight cotton skirt, dark court shoes and a black head scarf. A thick black pullover is worn under the coat.

Worn in The Cybernauts.

©1961-9

He wears a variation on his favourite tan overcoat, this one is grey with a contrasting upper collar in black, over his grey suit. (By the way, if anyone can identify the car he's sitting in, I'd be much obliged. I think it's a Talbot but I'm no expert).

Worn in The Cybernauts as above.
Worn in Dial a Deadly Number over the grey suit [bottom left].
Worn in Maneater of Surrey Green over the Prince of Wales check [near & bottom right].
Worn in Too Many Christmas Trees over the Prince of Wales check with a forest green cravat at the neck [see here for a colour picture].
Worn in The Danger Makers
Worn in How to Succeed at Murder over the grey suit.

©1961-9
©1961-9 CANAL+IMAGE UK Ltd All Rights Reserved

She wears a black textured single breasted coat, large black buttons closing it with a fur collar, worn with a knee-length tight cotton skirt.
This ensemble is briefly worn with a black bowler hat.

Worn in Death at Bargain Prices.

He wears a navy single breasted three-piece suit, only two buttons on the torso, high waistcoat with six buttons, no visible pockets; with black bowler, white shirt and dark tie with a white spot.
The bowler is briefly replaced with a grey fur hat. [above, right]

Worn in Death at Bargain Prices [top left and far right].
Worn in The Master Minds [left] and The Murder Market with a horizontally striped tie without a pin (later with a solid tie with a pin, and briefly with a pigeon-grey top hat as a disguise [near right]).
Worn in The Hour That Never Was. This suit was made in a single vent and double vent version, both of which were mistakenly used in this episode [lower right pictures].
Worn in Dial a Deadly Number with a dark tie with pin.
Worn in Two's a Crowd as described at top, with variations on the buttonhole.
Worn in Silent Dust with a dark tie and white shirt.
Worn in Room Without A View with a dark tie, light shirt and black bowler.
Worn in Small Game for Big Hunters with a dark tie and light shirt, briefly with a dark green surgical mask.
Worn in Quick-Quick Slow Death with a silk tie and light shirt with double cuffs and links.
Worn in A Touch of Brimstone with a dark tie, black bowler and white shirt; and again in What the Butler Saw (although in one scene he's wearing a dark khaki shirt with the ensemble), sometimes with the overcoat above and tan bowler, later still with a brown cravat.
Worn in the House that Jack Built with the flower pattern tie, white shirt and bowler hat.
Worn in How to Succeed at Murder (with the two vent version of the jacket).

©1961-9

A simple straight black skirt, knee length with a thin leather belt is coupled with a flounced fine silk blouse, cloth gathered at the tight cuffs and with a daringly plunging neckline - flounces down to the navel, and only Diana's slender black bra prevents her modesty from being completely destroyed (see at right). Patrick Macnee cheekily avails himself of the opportunity to glimpse her treasures.

Worn in Death at Bargain Prices.


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A high collared white silk blouse (probably in response to Patrick's wandering gaze!), the material gathered in radiating folds into the collar, and the cuffs ruffled. Worn with a (probably) green man-style waistcoat complete with watch chain, the waistcoat coming in under the bosom (now hidden by a white bra), and with black trousers. Later worn with the double breasted coat first worn in The Cybernauts.

Worn in Death at Bargain Prices.

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The Fashion Guide to Season 4 (1965-6)

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The Fashion Guide
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