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About the photo #2
He has a really nice face--but then ....
My grandson says--"His face is ok, but his neck has got to go"!
Then I found a card Photo #1
Next I will get on the drawn picyure of a "tiger collar" from the Geo Ade 1899 book, a part relevent (excerpt) shown below.
hang on!
Ha Ha! Is anyone interested but me. No mater--It is what I have done for a living for 25 years. Retired but can't stop.
I found out from a short story by Chicago newpaper writer Geo.Ade--this type of fad collar. If striped, it was the "zebra" It is a collar that is higher than usual, which to a collage boy meant they were special in some way, I suppose. Ha Ha! But they were very serious about it. Maaybe a certain frat. worn by college boys .Ot even pledges? Sooner or later things come to light after we post the picture! I think there is an illustration in the book too, so I will find the book and post the picture tomorrow.
FROM FABLES IN SLANG, GEO. ADE, 1899 CHICAGO * a favorite read of mine)
AN Illinois Squab came home
from Business College with a
Zebra Collar and a pair of Tan
Shoes big enough for a Coal Miner.
When he alighted from the depot one
of Ezry Folloson s Dray Horses fell
over, stricken with the Cramp Colic.
The usual Drove of Prominent Citi
zens who had come down to see that the
Train got in and out all right backed
away from the Educated Youth and
Chewed their Tobacco in Shame and
Abashment. They knew that they did
not belong on the same Platform with
AN Illinois Squab came home
from Business College with a
Zebra Collar.
One who had been up yender in Chi
cago for goin on Twelve weeks finding
out how to be a Business Man. By
Heck!
Found and bought a funny collar postcard 1906. Ha Ha! And I will also send the drawing in the Geo Ade book with the coller on a student that goes with the story above. Cat is going to the vet--so busy at the moment.Lois
He's a handsome young man, I don't see any problem with his neck at all. It's an optical illusion, when he takes the collar off, his neck looks just fine and dandy.
He was fashionable in his day. But durn happy to take it off,--I'll bet.
But compared to the torture young ladies went thr0ugh trying for an 18 inch waist---men had it pretty easy.