> Who wouldn't be depressed dressed in an outfit like that
> illustrated in the Dutch Masters Cigars logo? Wearing shapeless black
> clothing with a white collar that looks like a baby's bib, topped off by the
> ugliest hat ever to appear on a human head, would make anyone suicidal.
> <http://www.altadisusa.com/cigar/dutchmasters.asp>
Carl, those were your standard-issue Calvinist "The Lord shall know ye by thy deeds" crowd. Not very exciting. But check out the Artist's own duds:
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/r/rembrandt/selfportrait_frick.jpg
That red sash is a nice touch.
Or this earlier canvas:
http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rembrandt/rembrandt88.html
Gotta love that fur-trimmed coat.
I don't know whether these were RvR's street threads, but I think he looked pretty natty. Plenty more here:
<http://images.google.com/images?q=rembrandt+self-portrait&gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&start=20&sa=N&ndsp=20>
On 4/3/07, Andy F <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The era coincides with the disappearance of the codpiece. Nothing is
> quite so jocular as a codpiece.
Anyone else remember Eldridge Cleaver's ill-fated revival of that fashion accoutrement? From Wikipedia:
In 1975, Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver tried to reintroduce the codpiece to 20th-century male fashion apparel. His purpose, he said, was to "solve the problem of the fig leaf mentality", arguing that "clothing is an extension of the fig leaf". Variously called "Cleaver pants", "the Cleavers", and "the Cleaver sleeve", his designer jeans incorporated a combination codpiece-penis sheath that, according to one description of the accessory, could "accommodate a two-pound linguiça". His attempt to reintroduce the codpiece did not catch on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece
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Colin Brace
Amsterdam
