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1930s Esquire and Apparel Arts Illustrations — Die, Workwear!
A friend of mine recently scanned some remarkable scans of old issues of Esquire and Apparel Arts, all originally published around the 1930s or so. Apparel Arts was a quarterly large-format publication, started by Arnold Gingrich, who was also the founder of Esquire. Where Esquire was aimed at...dieworkwear.com
as a person of color, what i see are the WASPiest of white men, engaging in the most white-male privileged and exclusionary activities that I can think of.
Look at captions, and what they are doing:
country clubs, golfing, yachting, skiing, hunting, "english country squire", esquestrian
literally not a single POC in any of the thousands of Apparel Arts illustrations @dieworkwear worships.
The few women they show are all white and blonde, and serve only as trophies for the white men.
So I hope you will understand if I don't find it relevant.
If @dieworkwear thinks this country of full of white supremacists now, he might want to think a bit harder about the mentality of these folks he is glorifying.
If I saw anyone dressed like that today, I would assume they came out of the set of a period drama.
The dumbest thing is that quite a few of these illustrations still show oxfords being worn without suits !
Serious question, why do you follow me around on this board? Your entire posting history here is just you following me around to different threads, harassing me.
You said in an earlier post that you dislike my writing. So then why follow me around here for a year? Are you under a lockdown? Are you living through a once in a lifetime global pandemic that forces you to stay at home?
I put you on block after our last exchange, where I offered to pay for a member's fees to be nice, and you accused me of something nefarious. Seriously, just leave me alone. Or at least only make 1/10th of your posting history here about me.