Society in fancy dress at a costume ball held at the Savoy Hotel on 23 May 1912. Photographed at a time of great popularity for fancy dress balls, various well known members of society are pictured in costume. From left: 1 Miss Dalzell in prehistoric garb, Mrs George Edwardes in a dress of 'one hundred years ago', Miss Alice Crawford in an Othello costume, Mr Somerset Maugham as a character in Othello, the Hon. Mrs Cecil Bingham in a Louis XIV dress, Lady Violet Charteris as Jane Seymour, Lord Vernon as Henry VIII, Baroness von Kuhlmann in a Lely dress, Peggy from the Sunshine Girl and Viscount Dangan as a character from the same play, Baron Hoesch in Lely costume, Lady Diana Manners in a Lely dress and Mrs Hwfa Williams in a Georgian costume after Sir Joshua Reynolds. The ball was held in aid of the Middlesex hospital.