"Memorial Work" digging through another box of century-old, and older, crumbling & creased Family photos....to mend and retouch..many of their subjects are unknown to me......like this photo of a relative of my maternal grandmother.......Lewis McGee....taken in Lynchburg, Tennessee, where there is...still...a "Lewis McGee" Road.......I've not a clue as to who the child was...
"Interestingly, in the 16th century, the British Parliament wanted to stimulate wool consumption, so they mandated that all non-noble men must wear a wool hat on Sundays and holidays, or face a fine. This essentially forced most of the men in the country to buy hats, and even though the law didn’t last for very long, the hat had become irrevocably part of the uniform of the working man. The cap continued to be popular through the 19th and 20th centuries." .. GENTLEMAN"S GAZETTE (SVEN RAPHAEL SCHNEIDER)
I remember 'THE DEAD END KIDS/THE BOWERY BOYS".....Juvenile Delinquents, satirizing the 'look'...which became the 'in' fashion for the Urban Working Classes....
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