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whilst putting the big books back on the shelf, I stumbled across a book of photographs from the collections of a particular photographer from where I live. ignoring the fact that the compilers didn’t know how to date photographs (like did they REALLY think a picture with a horse-drawn taxi and women in lingerie dresses were from the 1930s???) and I found a picture of one of the old k-class garratts on the north-east dundas tramway. love that

#the 'knows a little about historical fashion' in me knows that there were quite a few misdated pictures in it #and I think it's because they might've been developed at a later time or reprinted at a later time #because they had perfectly 1917 era fashion in a picture dated 1917.#but yeah like not until the popularisation of mobile phones and the internet did we here have the same fashion as on the mainland #yet alone the fashions coming out of the uk and america #so give about two or maybe even three years before things come and go out of style and maybe more for that since you didn't chuck #an old dress once it became unfashionable you'd usually alter it to be fashionable again #but like. for a regatta you'd want to wear your best. that's usually more up-to-date than say your not-leaving-the-house-today dress #and this picture was dated 1920s. meaning that it's likely later than 1920 on the dot which if it were I could see #but honestly every single lady in that picture was wearing a white dress and the ones you could see had a coloured belt #not that you could tell since. black and white.#and the hat styles said what #I looked it up to double-check and those hats matched mid-1900s perfectly AND SO DID THE MEN'S HATS #so I'd say... late 1900s? maybe even 1910 or 11? y'know. A DECADE EARLIER?#like come on you were paid to write this book #and dear fucking god the picture I mentioned in the post body. dates 1930s. it probably was taken around 1909 when that building was new #it couldn't be after 1911 for reasons that would be obvious if you know a little about where I live #and it's really only on these few photographs. and I know it was 1987 so they couldn't like. google the fashion era or anything #which tbh is the best bet at dating this stuff because looking up online stuff about where I live is. tricky #like c'mon I wanna look up creepy little-known stuff about where I live. I don't wanna rely on a seemingly abandoned wordpress page

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