In 1914 he helped found the Design and Industries Association, dedicated to the improvement of industrial design. William Arthur Smith Benson was a metalwork designer and a founder-member of the Art Worker’s Guild, which gave birth to the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society in 1886. His 'Portraits of Many Persons of Note' fills three volumes with nearly 200 portraits and comprises a pictorial Who's Who of late Victorian and Edwardian celebrities. Hollyer was the photographer of choice for the artistic set of the late 19th century. Beards were now reserved for mainly older men, and most young men sported neat moustaches and short hair. Some men wore their collars turned down, with rounded edges and modern knotted ties. Most collars were starched and upstanding, with the corners pointing downwards. Jackets were narrow with small, high lapels. Men wore three-piece lounge suits with bowler or cloth caps.
This hairstyle was worn under vast, broad-brim hats with low crowns, and adorned all over with flowers, lace, ribbons and feathers. Hair was worn in a centre parting, often looped around pads and false hair to create a wide 'brim' of hair around the hairline. Separates were popular, with skirts fitted over the hip and fluted towards the hem. It thrust the hips backwards and forced the chest forward into a fashionable pouter-pigeon shape, emphasised with puffed, frilly blouses that were often embellished with decorations like lace collars and broad ribbon ties. The S-bend corset was fashionable during the 1900s.
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