hats
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00945 varones (by VARONES!)
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Young English Gent practising the Trumpet – Cabinet Portrait taken in the 1870s
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I enjoy that even in the midst of the slaughter he still keeps on his top hat. Gives “You can leave your hat on” a new and uber-creepy meaning!
ca. 1875, [tintype portrait of a butcher]
via the International Center of Photography, American and the Tintype Collection
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Portrait de Manet par Henri Latour
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William Powell
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Women pretty much ALWAYS look hot in top hats.
Have you had Josephine Baker yet? Lady and non-European and totally adorably sexy.
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Alfred-Philippe Roll, Portrait of Adolphe Alphand the civil engineer who remodelled Paris under Baron Hausmann. We may marvel at the wide Boulevards he created today, but the real reason for them wasn’t aesthetic, it was to quell rebellion quickly such as the 1871 Paris Commune.
Mass control of people through road planning – you could position artilery at one of the radiating junctions and control miles of streets – and march armies down them rather than the small guerilla-friendly streets that helped the 1848 Commune.
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Salacious
George Augustus Henry Sala looking super duper fly between 1855 – 1865 by Mathew Brady or Lewin Handy.
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An excellent demonstration from Barton-Wright’s classic Pearson’s Magazine article, “Self Defence with a Walking Stick”, 1900 (Bartitsu.org).
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You see I don’t just blog about such bearded Victorian topper wearing blokes or kilts…
…I wear it too.
Here I am in an early 1900 evening suit, Lindsay tartan waistcoat, silk dickie bow, and topper at a friend’s wedding. The only out of place thing is the shoes, which are CATs – need to get some proper Oxford brogues. And a silk topper if I can afford one!