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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Team Sports, Part 2 - Rated G
Part 2 of our sports theme features some guys with their pants on.
I don't know what sort this team was, but I'm guessing wrestling.
The clothed chap on the left is wearing a "golf" collar, regarded as suitably "relaxed" for the links, with what looks like a four-button single-breasted jacket that came into fashion just prior to WWI. The trousers on the young blade to the right have turn-ups (cuffs) which date the photograph to post 1900, when they first appeared. (It is said that King Edward VII, son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert - who was regarded as the gentleman's sartorial trend-setter of his day - introduced them, along with trouser creases. The story goes that he took a new pair of trousers out of the box direct from his tailor where they had been incorrectly folded and neglected to have them ironed before wearing. The look caught on.) Wrestlers tended to wrestle on canvas-covered mats, in a pair of light wool tights, over which they wore baggy trunks, elasticated at waist and leg, for modesty and ease of movement. I would therefore date this photograph to circa 1910.
Oh, no. The King's valet would have been far too grand for that. As far as I can ascertain, the arcane rules of royal life would have dictated that the valet would have asked the Steward and Page of the Backstairs, who would have spoken to the on-duty upper footman who would have spoken to the under footman of the King's personal staff, who would have walked three miles to the bowels of Buck House for one of the in-house seamstresses in the laundry to get up off her one legged stool to press the royal pants. It would have taken over an hour and Edward - whose nickname was Tum-Tum owing to his gargantuan appetite - was going down to dinner. Besides, at that hour, the valet would probably have been making out with a guardsman in the bushes of Saint James's Park!
The clothed chap on the left is wearing a "golf" collar, regarded as suitably "relaxed" for the links, with what looks like a four-button single-breasted jacket that came into fashion just prior to WWI. The trousers on the young blade to the right have turn-ups (cuffs) which date the photograph to post 1900, when they first appeared. (It is said that King Edward VII, son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert - who was regarded as the gentleman's sartorial trend-setter of his day - introduced them, along with trouser creases. The story goes that he took a new pair of trousers out of the box direct from his tailor where they had been incorrectly folded and neglected to have them ironed before wearing. The look caught on.) Wrestlers tended to wrestle on canvas-covered mats, in a pair of light wool tights, over which they wore baggy trunks, elasticated at waist and leg, for modesty and ease of movement. I would therefore date this photograph to circa 1910.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I had no idea that creased trousers were an accident.
DeleteEdward's valet must have had the day off.
Oh, no. The King's valet would have been far too grand for that. As far as I can ascertain, the arcane rules of royal life would have dictated that the valet would have asked the Steward and Page of the Backstairs, who would have spoken to the on-duty upper footman who would have spoken to the under footman of the King's personal staff, who would have walked three miles to the bowels of Buck House for one of the in-house seamstresses in the laundry to get up off her one legged stool to press the royal pants. It would have taken over an hour and Edward - whose nickname was Tum-Tum owing to his gargantuan appetite - was going down to dinner. Besides, at that hour, the valet would probably have been making out with a guardsman in the bushes of Saint James's Park!
ReplyDeleteI met a man with a pet pelican in St. James's Park once.
DeleteJust somehow, that doesn't surprise me.
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