An actor performing in drag. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.

He holds a white cane. Extravagant amateur drag or fancy dress, photographed against a sylvan glade backdrop at the Parisian School of Photography's studio, in London's Old Kent Road. Traditionally a rough and ready working-class area, it is not the kind of place one might expect to encounter young men like this dressed like a French tart, the glittery lamé frock slashed to the thigh. The gigantic hat is of the cartwheel variety, popular for a very few years around 1910: these were perhaps the largest hats ever worn. An amateur theatrical performer perhaps? (James Gardiner)

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Identifier: hx11xf49d
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution: Wellcome Library
Date Issued: 1910 to 1919?
Genre: Photographs
Prints
Topic(s): Female impersonators
Resource Type: Still Image
Analog Format: 1 photograph : photoprint ;
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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