The intertitles in our silent picture show

[sovay]

I want to go back in time and steal this man's waistcoat. Or at least ask what he was reading:



(Francis George Packer, an actor I'd never heard of even under his stage name, Nigel De Brulier. He played the prophet Jokanaan in the 1923 avant-garde film of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, however, so I expect to see more of him soon. Discovered while looking for Conrad Veidt.)

nineweaving worries it would wear me, but I think the wolf hat could take it.

Comments

[rosefox]

I'm wearing a checked waistcoat today (the one barely visible in this userpic, if I've chosen the picture correctly) and it is definitely not wearing me. I'm certain you could carry it off.

[sovay]

(the one barely visible in this userpic, if I've chosen the picture correctly)

It's very nice, even at a hundred pixels. I like the tie, too.

I'm certain you could carry it off.

Thank you! I'll report back with photographs if I do—I'd still need a waistcoat in the first place.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I used to wear a riverboat-gambler-style waistcoat, the same green as that tie.