About Me
- Christine H.
- I love antique postcards because they preserve evidence of everyday life as well as celebrations and sad events. Looking at an old postcard is like holding a single piece of a puzzle; we have to imagine the rest. I will try to put up a postcard every day. If you have a special request for a particular city or place, let me know!
This is such a neat postcard. I like the subtle humor with the clerk behind the counter watching a rotund guy measure the tall thin guy.
ReplyDeleteIt's not what you have, it's...how you measure it.:)
ReplyDeleteNice, funny, old postcard - from when Americans were skinny.
We're becoming a "no waist"-land.
Great comic illustration. Very representative of its time!
ReplyDeleteIs the woman:
ReplyDelete1. stifling a giggle?
2. burping?
3. getting the vapors at his mere handsome-ness?
Several of my ancestors were Chicago tailors. I wonder if they might have worked at M. Born & Co.
ReplyDeleteBarbara
Love the characters and the sight gag, hope he bought a pair of suspenders too!
ReplyDeleteThis is like Jack Sprat who is also like my husband who has weighed the same since he was in HS!
ReplyDeleteThey aren't going to make much on a fabric purchase from that fella.
ReplyDeleteGreat Postcard !!!
ReplyDeleteI recently found a large art print with " Ed. V. Price & Company " Merchant Tailors Chicago, " Who's Your Tailor "
Print is of two young girls ( sisters ) playing at home with 3 small dogs. The girls are both dressed in a very elegant white laced dress. Any ideas on this print's name ?
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to say that I have no idea what the name of the print might be. You could check with folks at the Ephemera Society: http://www.ephemerasociety.org/