Advertising poster promoting the Ypres Ball held on November 20th 1922. The poster was printed by the Haycock-Cadle Company located in Camberwell. The Ypres Ball was a fancy dress ball organised in aid of The Ypres League, formed in 1920 to commemorate the battle of Ypres fought during World War I. Membership of the League was open to officers and men who had served at Ypres in Belgium, the site of the war's worst battles. The League's aim was 'commemoration, comradeship and help'. Fancy dress charity balls were important events in London's social calendar during the 1920s. Balls were designed for mass attendances and social mixing was part of the appeal: 'royalty hobnobbed with the stage; celebrities allowed themselves to be looked at; Suburbia rubbed elbows with Mayfair.'
