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I was complaining that online fashion historians were horribly vague about class and in fact seemed to be only talking about the aristocracy most of the time, and personhead![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
del_c suggested searching instead for images of people in the particular jobs I am interested in, in years that are equivalent to my story time. Thanks to this strategy, I now know what those collars really look like when worn (as opposed to a Leyendecker Arrow Collar advertisement). And also, I know that Albert Einstein went to Prague and attended intellectual gatherings with . . . Franz Kafka. That is very cool. Also, I found out about Einstein's assistant, Emil Nohel, the son of a Jewish farmer, previously a high school physics teacher, who lived to see his whole family killed by the Nazis, and himself as well.
I am experimenting with adding specific Central/Eastern European city names to the searches, but "Krakow" and "Prague" turn up a lot of Delacroix and Beveridge, which is not the end of the world but is really puzzling. Delacroix is not even remotely in the time period. But I guess it got the tag because elsewhere in the blog in question there was an article about Jaroslav Hašek (whose portrait might have been helpful except that it was only a head shot and showed nothing at all).
(irrelevant aside inspired by an illustration on a Kafka website: the german name Franz is the same as Frank and also František. My Frank doesn't like to be called František, as it sounds like a diminutive to him, and this caused a bit of friction in his Czech language class. I like the sound of the name myself, but I have no need to call him that. We never called him Frankie when he was little: we called him Franklin).
Another oddity I turned up was a mug shot for Menachim Begin when he was a mere terrorist and not a world-renowned statesman and architect of the policy of unrelenting war against Palestinians. People don't remember that that whole generation of Israeli leaders got their start blowing up tourist hotels. Aside: Einstein held out for a bicultural state, integrating Arabs and Jews, but most of his friends wouldn't even consider it.
And also I found what looks like a real gem: the Ptak Science Books blog, which has articles about almost everything, it looks like. I'm in danger of reading it all day.
Anyway, I think Yanek has to have a stiff collar and a ribbon tie. Some of these folks are wearing a modern tie and a pointy folded-down collar, but I think that those are too modern for a conservative environment such as the one Yanek lives in.
Bingo. I found the photo sleuth!
del_c suggested searching instead for images of people in the particular jobs I am interested in, in years that are equivalent to my story time. Thanks to this strategy, I now know what those collars really look like when worn (as opposed to a Leyendecker Arrow Collar advertisement). And also, I know that Albert Einstein went to Prague and attended intellectual gatherings with . . . Franz Kafka. That is very cool. Also, I found out about Einstein's assistant, Emil Nohel, the son of a Jewish farmer, previously a high school physics teacher, who lived to see his whole family killed by the Nazis, and himself as well.
I am experimenting with adding specific Central/Eastern European city names to the searches, but "Krakow" and "Prague" turn up a lot of Delacroix and Beveridge, which is not the end of the world but is really puzzling. Delacroix is not even remotely in the time period. But I guess it got the tag because elsewhere in the blog in question there was an article about Jaroslav Hašek (whose portrait might have been helpful except that it was only a head shot and showed nothing at all).
(irrelevant aside inspired by an illustration on a Kafka website: the german name Franz is the same as Frank and also František. My Frank doesn't like to be called František, as it sounds like a diminutive to him, and this caused a bit of friction in his Czech language class. I like the sound of the name myself, but I have no need to call him that. We never called him Frankie when he was little: we called him Franklin).
Another oddity I turned up was a mug shot for Menachim Begin when he was a mere terrorist and not a world-renowned statesman and architect of the policy of unrelenting war against Palestinians. People don't remember that that whole generation of Israeli leaders got their start blowing up tourist hotels. Aside: Einstein held out for a bicultural state, integrating Arabs and Jews, but most of his friends wouldn't even consider it.
And also I found what looks like a real gem: the Ptak Science Books blog, which has articles about almost everything, it looks like. I'm in danger of reading it all day.
Anyway, I think Yanek has to have a stiff collar and a ribbon tie. Some of these folks are wearing a modern tie and a pointy folded-down collar, but I think that those are too modern for a conservative environment such as the one Yanek lives in.
Bingo. I found the photo sleuth!
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