19-Year-Old Student Hides Spy Camera In His Clothing To Take Secret Street Photos In The 1890s

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Massively uncomfortable they were.

Better than today's trend of yoga pants and ripped jean shorts that is for sure

Basically the whole subplot of season 9 of Doctor Who

both,.... ala Dr Who

Litter hadn't been invented yet. No joke. Nothing was disposable. Everything could be reused and was too valuable to be thrown away. Far better way to run a society.

It's Norway. Pretty sure you won't find any there now.

There was probably a lot of horse dung in lieu of that, though. It also depended on which part of the city you're in. Looking at these pictures, the guy likely spent most of his time in the nicer areas of the city.

No fast food, no junk food snacks, no Starbucks.

no Mars?

What did they have to litter? Everything was made from box and cloth and paper back then, it would have been resued.

What would they have to litter with? No plastic yet. And any old paper would have been in demand to start a stove with. Cities did have a big horse turd problem at the time though.

I can't remember the last time I saw any litter and I live in a city of 1.4 million people

Yeah. The population was very low and people didn't live long

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Then what do you call the white people?

"Of course that was before when be people were well brought up." You mean back when slavery was common, there was no such thing as minimum wager nor maximum hours, gay were considered an abomination, people didn't get treatment, they just went to a mental institution of they were a bit "off", and women couldn't vote etc? Is that when people were well brought up?

Such people were and always will be. These are the central streets they are well cleaned.

Me too!

I still do

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I don't, he looks like his advertising laxatives

His face doesn't look cross to me. He looks interested. As if he's thinking it is a clever idea. He's pointing to where the camera is and bringing his other hand up to where his chin is. A common expression in those days.

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Same time period, so not surprising. You'd have seen these hats in most cities.

Good to see a history buff, DSP! :) I work in costuming which involves studies in fashion history, so you may find this interesting. This photo was taken in the mid 1890's, and Titanic's sinking happened in 1912, so there's about a 20 year difference. However, fashion silhouettes tend to recycle every 20 years, yes even in modern day, so it's not surprising that the dress styles look similar, but there are differences. You will find that dresses of the 1910's have Much smaller sleeves, the shoulders almost appeared sloped, in fact. And there strangely tended to be a lot of detaling in middle of the body of the dress instead of at the top, near the nead like in the 1890's.

And they're held on mostly by pins, since they aren't deep enough to hold onto the head!

It's the same period in history.