Burmese beauties visiting London 1935

Burmese beauties visiting London 1935. The above photo depicts exotic Burmese beauties who had visited London in 1935. In this vintage black and white photograph a policeman in London is directing the three giraffe necked women along Elgin Avenue, London, 1935. The photo of General Photographic Agency.

A Burmese woman, with traditional neck-extending rings, celebrates her twenty-first birthday with a cake in Folkestone with her friend. They are both part of Bertram Mills Circus, where they are billed as the “giraffe-necked Burmese ladies”. 25th August 1936. (Photo by A. J. O’Brien)

A Padaung, or Kayan woman. Originally a Mongolian tribe, the Padaung have been assimilated into the Karen group native to Myanmar (Burma), circa 1950. (Photo by Three Lions)

A Padaung, or Kayan woman. Originally a Mongolian tribe, the Padaung have been assimilated into the Karen group native to Myanmar (Burma), circa 1950.

Burmese beauties visiting London

Three Burmese women members of a circus play cards as they wear the brass neck and leg rings traditionally worn by Padaung women since childhood and which cannot be removed, London, January 4, 1935. (Photo by Keystone).

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