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WCDT strips 3746 to 3750 (21st to 25th May 2018)
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: SeaWoodStage on 21 May 2018, 16:30 ---No butler would wear a hat, unless required by the protocol of a specific occasion.
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When going out? He most certainly would. Hats were very much an item of uniform and emblem of social rank in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, and photographs of the period rarely have UK men out and about bareheaded.
Deadlywonky:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 21 May 2018, 22:52 ---
--- Quote from: SeaWoodStage on 21 May 2018, 16:30 ---No butler would wear a hat, unless required by the protocol of a specific occasion.
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When going out? He most certainly would. Hats were very much an item of uniform and emblem of social rank in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, and photographs of the period rarely have UK men out and about bareheaded.
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The ultimate point of reference for this... https://youtu.be/tk7pk58Bq4Q?t=4m13s
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Deadlywonky on 21 May 2018, 23:00 ---The ultimate point of reference for this... https://youtu.be/tk7pk58Bq4Q?t=4m13s
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And I think one of the "making Downton Abbey" segments spent several minutes on the topic.
Dandi Andi:
--- Quote from: Deadlywonky on 21 May 2018, 23:00 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 21 May 2018, 22:52 ---
--- Quote from: SeaWoodStage on 21 May 2018, 16:30 ---No butler would wear a hat, unless required by the protocol of a specific occasion.
--- End quote ---
When going out? He most certainly would. Hats were very much an item of uniform and emblem of social rank in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, and photographs of the period rarely have UK men out and about bareheaded.
--- End quote ---
The ultimate point of reference for this... https://youtu.be/tk7pk58Bq4Q?t=4m13s
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I want to point out that Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's valet, not his butler. Though I am told that he could butle with the best of them.
Undrneath:
A valet he may be but most of us uncultured Americans are unaware of the difference probably because of Batman since Alfred is called a butler yet mostly acts like a valet.
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