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Assuming that there are period photos of "real" people (not actors wearing a costume while performing or fashion designers trying to be being outrageous) wearing certain articles or combinations of them, I think it's a bit silly to claim that wearing such a thing is NOT "period correct". Again, to assert this is adhering to a purely academic interpretation of what reality should have been rather than to what reality actually was. Of course we are all free now, just as then, to adhere to certain rules of fashion (and to varying degrees) but I think it's incorrect to refer to something as "not period correct" when it so clearly happened. Perhaps it may be better to refer to such things as "improper according to the rules of the period" with the acknowledgement that people then (as now) broke those rules. And frankly, thank God for those rule-breakers as that's what individuality, whimsy, and ultimately fashion are all about right????? Honestly, to tell a fashionable man that he can't wear an ascot with his bush jacket is like telling a Jazz musician that he cannot play outside the chord progression during a solo.
JMHO,
eightbore
JMHO,
eightbore