June 13, 2016

Harold and Woods Ballies

By C.E. Ryan

RPPC of Harold and Woods Ballies, c.1910. Private Collection.

These two look effortlessly elegant. Harold and Woods posed in their stiff collars and loose suits for a formal portrait. Hopefully they did their mama proud!

RPPC: AZO 1904-1918.

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This entry was posted on Monday, June 13th, 2016 at 7:59 pm and tagged with 1900s-1910s, brothers, duo, portrait, USA and posted in RPPCs, Teens. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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11 responses to “Harold and Woods Ballies”

• summertime75
  June 14th, 2016 at 1:49 am

  Their collars always look as if they aren’t really part of the shirt, just hovering round their necks. The poor maids of the period often wore a similar style collar with their uniforms along with the white starched cuffs, must have been very uncomfortable to work in but then appearance was all 😉

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  • bowlersandhighcollars
    June 14th, 2016 at 1:52 am

    Uncomfortable, but then you didn’t have to wash your shirt as often, and since that was done by hand it was a small price to pay. lol

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    • summertime75
      June 14th, 2016 at 2:24 am

      Ahh once a month 😱

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    • bowlersandhighcollars
      June 14th, 2016 at 2:52 am

      Maybe not that long..!

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    • summertime75
      June 14th, 2016 at 4:03 am

      Especially if he has a nice “little woman” or “Tweeny” to do his laundry, did America have Tweenies? I have an interesting book about servants and in 1902 Queen Alexandra invited 10,000 “maids of all work” of London to tea parties across the capital to mark the Coronation, the parties were between 10th July to 2nd August 1902. They were given an extra half day off work and were able to wear their own clothes rather than their usual uniform of cap and apron.

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    • bowlersandhighcollars
      June 14th, 2016 at 5:48 pm

      Is tweeny a slang term?

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    • summertime75
      June 15th, 2016 at 12:47 am

      It’s a general term used here for the very junior maid, they had all the jobs that no one else wanted to do

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    • summertime75
      June 15th, 2016 at 2:43 am

      https://summertime75.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/tweeny-maids-sunderland-daily-echo-and-shipping-gazette-1923/

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    • bowlersandhighcollars
      June 16th, 2016 at 11:39 pm

      The bottom of the bottom ;-D

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    • summertime75
      June 17th, 2016 at 1:47 am

      Very much so, poor girls. I did see and advertisement around the same time for Tweeny Boys

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    • bowlersandhighcollars
      June 17th, 2016 at 4:21 pm

      Bah, they all have to start somewhere. ;)

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