hats
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This is basically my dream outfit.
Dapper Gent
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If I had a hammer…
No info about this picture – [rant] if you post pics on Tumblr THEN CREDIT THEM. It’s the *least* you can do leaching off content you didn’t create nor own is to at least give love to those who originally created it.
It’s really annoying when you try and track down through the reposts to find the original post is gone – like in this case. Grr. [/rant]
EDIT: Thanks to Tineye I now know this about the picture
WALDEMAR FRANZ HERMAN TITZENTHALER. Boiler Maker (Types of German Workers), c. 1900.
Gold-toned printing-out paper. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. -
Anna May Wong by Carl Van Vechten, April 1932
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Umbrella warfare
Whereas the modern umbrella-rella-rella stance is what can cause the most damage to others in London!
Umbrella characteristics. (1876)
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Talking of men and their wonderful machines…he looks like he’s having TOO much fun.
Man in a flying machine
1910
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Wish I knew more about this – are they pretending to be An Overgrown Fed Abe Lincoln or is that accidental?
Top Hat
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Top hats were a fashion must for all respectable gentlemen for a good portion of the 19th century. However the felted beaver fur that was traditionally used in construction proved just slightly too hot for the summer months.
The solution was the introduction of straw top hots for summer wear. In the very early 19th century some were even painted black to resemble their winter counterparts as closely as possible, but eventually leaving the straw its natural color became the style of choice. This one is American in origin and dates to 1832.
To quote Wayne: ‘I did not know that!’
By the way as an aside, top hats were only beaver fur for early part of the 1800s, silk plush became the popular shiny alternative after the 1850/60s which I expect being silk was also less hot than fur felt. Seems to be some confusion about this over at eBay – hence the rather strange epiphets ‘beaver silk" and ‘silk beaver’ – how does a beaver spin silk exactly?!? :-p And silk beaver sounds like you should get it in a plain wrapper in Soho…
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King Wilhelm II of Wurttemberg.
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Is it me or do they always seem to get the top hats slightly wrong in these period things? Just looks wrong compared to pictures or paintings from this era (regency) and equally true of modern depictions of Victorian/Edwardian too.
It’s like those goth/dressage versions of the top hat, or people wearing stovepipes to be ‘authentically Victorian’ which were never that popular but for a very short time…or people who wear mourning felt hats to weddings (although that in part is because the story goes French brothers in Lyon who made the last of the silk plush fell out imany years ago and dramatically smashed the silk looms – hence no new silk toppers* -so rather expensive and hard to find a proper silk one)
Sorry, top hat rant over.
* although since writing this I found one place which is now doing new silk plush hats…so someone must be doing silk plush again…
Colin Firth in Pride & Prejudice.
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Man in Bowler – eBay carte de visite