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#1 2011-01-10 21:38:28

fxh
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Australian Dress 1880

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#2 2011-01-11 10:30:42

eg
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#3 2011-01-11 11:34:51

formby
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Re: Australian Dress 1880


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

Souvent me Souvient

 

#4 2011-01-11 15:34:46

The_Shooman
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Re: Australian Dress 1880

They all look like they are from convict stock. wink They all look like they are having a good time in the sun, and all have facial hair. l could imagine conversation would have flowed well that day. Wish l was there to see it.

 

#5 2011-01-11 19:33:46

fxh
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Re: Australian Dress 1880

Shooey did you check out the footwear with zoom? Is it hand stitched?

 

#6 2011-01-11 19:37:52

fxh
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Re: Australian Dress 1880

eg - thats funny but I do have to say in my worldly travels I've almost never found any cheap quaffing wine as good as Oz stuff. I think we are very lucky.

Theres very little risk in walking in too any big discount grog shop and picking up a $7 - $10 cleanskin shiraz or cab-sav randomly.

I also think the big Australian red is probably an acquired taste for non Oz persons.

 

#7 2011-01-11 19:41:52

fxh
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formby - ah yes the Convict Streak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNviFAVFvJE

Dave Warner's From the Suburbs. Appears on the Album "Mugs Game". Transcribed from the Original Vinyl.

Satirical of Australian culture, as it existed at the time (1975).

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#8 2011-01-12 04:43:11

fxh
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Re: Australian Dress 1880

bah

 

#9 2011-01-13 05:00:11

eg
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#10 2011-01-13 05:37:49

The_Shooman
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#11 2011-01-13 08:03:16

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If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman

 

#12 2011-01-13 08:05:29

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If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman

 

#13 2011-01-13 08:09:43

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If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman

 

#14 2011-01-13 09:40:36

fxh
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Re: Australian Dress 1880

They mostly seem to be wearing boots to me.

 

#15 2011-01-31 08:46:16

fxh
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#16 2011-01-31 16:27:38

meister
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The 1920s crims were better turned out than most gliterrati/iGents today IMHO!

 

#17 2011-01-31 21:37:11

fxh
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Re: Australian Dress 1880

Yeah - its interesting looking at what the are wearing. Knit tie, pinned collar, club collar on the right hand side bloke, pocket square second from right, they look like all single breasted suits to me with mostly high gorge and wide lapels with a variation in notches and a fish mouth kind of style. 2 " or more cuffs on second from left, and guy on right, lace up boots, all with vests all with hats. Guy on the right has the seams on the side of pants - forget the technical name.

I notice none have the "traditional" short back a side basin hair cut.

I get he feeling these guys aren't your average street crim and may well have been SP bookies or Sydney gambling den guys. Or even responsible citizens having their photo done by the cops photographer. Or even senior cops. Something about their look suggests to me it isn't a crim mug shot.

There are other photos I'll post with some more obvious "street" clothing styles.

 

#18 2011-01-31 22:10:41

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#19 2011-02-01 17:24:52

fxh
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I'm not sure meister - they neither look contrite, arrogant, defiant, resigned or under duress to me.  The two  on the right - The O'Brien Brothers as I assume, don't look to be in trouble.

The considered pose with the hats arranged just so doesn't look like a mug shot to me either. If they are I reckon they are SP bookies. With the O'Briens running the show.

 

#20 2011-02-04 05:33:42

fxh
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#21 2011-02-04 20:52:51

fxh
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This picture is one of a series of around 2500 "special photographs" taken by New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930. These "special photographs" were mostly taken in the cellsSpecial Photograph no. 446.

The quartet pictured were arrested over a robbery at the home of bookmaker Reginald Catton, of Todman avenue, Kensington, on 21 April 1921. The Crown did not proceed against Thomas O'Brien but the other three were convicted, a at the Central Police Station, Sydney and are, as curator Peter Doyle explains, of "men and women recently plucked from the street, often still animated by the dramas surrounding their apprehension".

Doyle suggests that, compared with the subjects of prison mug shots, "the subjects of the Special Photographs seem to have been allowed - perhaps invited - to position and compose themselves for the camera as they liked.

 

#22 2011-02-04 21:08:55

fxh
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Re: Australian Dress 1880

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#23 2011-02-04 21:21:42

fxh
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#24 2011-02-06 11:31:27

eg
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#25 2011-02-09 20:56:43

The_Shooman
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Re: Australian Dress 1880

l've been enjoying the picture fxh.

Regards: The Shooman.

 

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