Women in Bowlers

[BR Gordon]

And for some reason, I still don't notice the bowler.

 

[Paul Roerich]

Talk about bowling us over!

 

[150719541]

Parece que haya muchos aqui quien hablan espanol.

Seems like there's a lot of Spanish speakers here.

It´s a pleasure can read spanish by longfelows in the lounge, Cheers my brothers ¡¡¡¡
Es un placer poder leer español de grandes camaradas en el salón, saludos mis hermanos ¡¡¡

 

[BEHerron]

Something very ***y about a woman dressed to the nines and wearing a hat. :eusa_clap

A character in the movie Easy Virtue is shown donning similar headwear.

 

[m0nk]

Something very ***y about a woman dressed to the nines and wearing a hat. :eusa_clap

Absolutely! And I haven't seen Jessica Biel as a blond.... amazing.

 

[BobHufford]

 

[jeffgarf]

"Special tailored clothes, sewn with hidden pockets" - True story, my great-grand father was a tailor who made suits, for among others, members of the mob (Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, being the most well-known). He passed when I was three, but the stories I always heard about him were about him sewing in special pockets into the suits he made for these guys to carry their ***s. Crazy!

 

[Bamaboots]

Ralph has often used bowlers with his models in runway shows.

 

[Edward]

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British TV show A Thousand Blows (written by Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders renown) is a fictionalised version of the antics of the Forty Elephants. It's a sort of 'what if', which beings together a lot of London characters of the 1880s, and imagines how they might have interacted had their paths crossed.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21874900/

Streamed on Disney Plus in the UK (series 2 will drop early in 2026), not sure where it's available elsewhere.

In terms of the visual vibe of the original Forty Elephants here, I'm somewhat reminded of Ken Russell's famous Teddy Girls photos:

https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/8064/teddy-girls-the-style-subculture-that-time-forgot

Though by the fifties, these Teddy Girl street kids had largely dropped hats altogether.

 

[steur]

Ralph has often used bowlers with his models in runway shows.
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Would have expected Ralph to get her a hat that fitted her!

 

[Frunobulax]

I've not seen this thread before. First thing I thought of:

 

[jeffgarf]

I've not seen this thread before. First thing I thought of:

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But not this?

 

[M Hatman]

 

[M Hatman]

 

[Frunobulax]

But not this?

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Mrs. Peel will always hold a special place in my, er, heart.