Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The new Darly shop became known as "the Macaroni Print-Shop". [2] Design historian Peter McNeil links macaroni fashion to the crossdressing of the earlier molly subculture, and says "some macaronis may have utilized aspects of high fashion in order to affect new class identities, but others may have asserted what we would now label a queer ...
The original macaroni of the 1760s was characterized by elaborate dress consisting of short and tight trousers, large wigs, delicate shoes and small hats. [17] As the general population of English males became exposed to the luxurious appeal of the macaroni trend, they began to adopt and replicate the trends they saw.
The cadogan style of men's hair developed and became popular during this period, with horizontal rolls of hair over the ears. Later, wigs or the natural hair were worn long, brushed back from the forehead and clubbed or tied back at the nape of the neck with a black ribbon. From about 1720, a bag wig gathered the back hair in a black silk bag.
The Macaroni wig was an extreme fashion in the 1770s and became slang for being a fop. [10] Dandies were men who placed particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisure hobbies. A self-made dandy was a British middle-class man who impersonated an aristocratic lifestyle.
In the New York City area, which is part of the Atlantic corridor region, where both snowfall and temperatures are predicted to be "above normal," with the snowiest periods expected at the end of ...
On one particularly virulent October day, 851 people died in New York City alone. November 1: The actions of a substitute motorman filling in during a strike lead to a subway crash in Flatbush. The Malbone Street Wreck kills 97 people heading home from work and injures a hundred more. [95] Okeh Records in business. Selwyn Theatre opens. 1919
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.