RPPC. Private Collection.
The late 1910s, when the young generation dismissed their parents’ constraining coats and pants for more relaxed and comfortable wear.
A close-up of this fine gent.
RPPC: AZO 4 up triangles. 1904-1918
Tag Archives: 1910s
Holding hands at T. Hugh Miller Custom Tailoring
T. Hugh Miller Agent Custom Tailoring for Klee & Co. N.Y City. RPPC. Private Collection.
Tailors and salesmen in front of their place of business with the stylish Art Nouveau sign. We have a bowler, fedora, pork pie, all sorts of caps, two white neck scarves, bowties, ties…There’s a little of everything here, as it should be!
And four of them are holding hands. Gents holding hands didn’t necessarily mean they were gay, just close buddies not afraid to show affection toward each other. This was taken in the mid 1910s.
RPPC: AZO 1904-1018
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Harris Norris, the Thinker in Mary-Janes
Edwardian man in Mary Jane shoes. RPPC. Private Collection.
Harris Norris. University of Virginia
I did a double take on this one. Look at this cheeky gentleman! While today these shoes are exclusively worn by women and girls, I read on (the always reliable *cough cough*) wiki some pre-WWI men wore them too, but apart from this photo I have yet to see evidence of this and I’ve seen many. I believe that if some did indeed wear them, the shoes were never popular with gentlemen. By the time this image was taken the name of Mary Jane was already in use. I think the university student was being humorous by wearing ladies shoes! He’s smiling in that “what do you think of this?” sort of way. This was taken in the mid 1910s, seeing the pants cuffs.
RPPC: AZO 1904-1918
On a front porch
On a front porch. Snapshot. Private Collection.
A sepia candid of an American gent sitting on a front porch in the sun. Simple and nice.
Too much wine?
I never said I was above good ole juvenile humor. ;)
Too much wine? RPPC. Private Collection.
Yes, I collect the good, the bad and the ugly. Here you have it, these gents are lounging around, each a bottle in hand, the fifth suffering the consequence of too much drinking. Basic laws of physics tell me the barf was staged. ;)
I can see how this picture came about. They saw the bowl in the kitchen and someone said “this looks like barf, ma!”, then another said “Wait! I have an idea! Where’s my camera?”
But what was in that ceramic wash bowl? I’m not sure I want to know…
RPPC: AZO 1904-1918
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