05 June 2014

Wedding party, 1920


The unusual tailoring of the pageboy's blouse generates a bit of visual ambiguity...

Via Vintage Photography.

5 comments:

  1. I'm pretty sure he's wearing an open jacket with his shirt peter-pan-type collar spread over the jacket in lieu of a jacket collar. The jacket is meant to be worn open and so has no buttons or toggles.

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  2. I like how happy and relaxed most of the ladiese are, peopleoften look too uptight in old time photos.

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  3. I'm ashamed to say I am one of the few here who seems to have noticed the visual ambiguity. Maybe the happy looking women had spotted it also?

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  4. OK, I'll bite. What is the visual ambiguity that I am missing?

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  5. I can't see any visual ambiguity either. What I do see: the women are really enjoying themselves, the girls seem basically OK with what's going on, the boy has got a frozen, gobsmacked "when will this madness finally be over" expression.

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