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I've noticed that most jackets in these old pictures have the "double button" ( I'm not sure of the technical name) at the top for fastening.

Can anyone give me a bit of insight into this element and its popularity and disappearance?

As far as can see in all the shots most of the men have lace up boots on and heels appear to be higher than they are these days.

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For almost a decade Squizzy was a kingpin in Melbourne crime, involved in everything from vicious assaults to murder, blackmail, gambling rackets, robbery and theft. He died as violently as he had lived, allegedly gunned down in a shoot-out with a fellow criminal named 'Snowy' Cutmore on 27 October 1927.

Squizzy Taylor grew up in the lanes and alleys of turn-of-the-century Melbourne. 

What kind of man was this 'larrikin gangster'?

'His crafty eyes leered at you from under a rakish bowler hat,' wrote veteran Australian crime reporter Hugh Buggy, who came to know Squizzy quite well while covering his amazing career in crime.

"He had a nasty mouth that curled in a perpetual sneer. He was flashy and ostentatious, clad always in the best of suitings, and the most iridescent of shirts and ties. He was just a dapper little braggart, but he wielded amazing influence over gunmen, burglars and pick-pockets. They elevated him to the stature of a demi-god. To an assorted crew of morons he became a hero, a legendary figure, an exemplar of all forms of criminal derring-do."

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