Art Deco Menswear Style. . .

A reproduction of a 1934 poster advertising a menswear collection for the Viennese department store Jawo.

Kind of quiet here at Totleigh-in-the-Wold what with the recent rains, no teaching duties, no one bothering me about anything having to do with other work commitments (they're all away for the summer), and a recent jaunt to the dental surgeon's chair to begin the lengthy process necessary for an eventual dental implant. Ugh.

The one high point of the procedure was that I got to practice my German with the doctor, whose father is German, so he spent a large part of his formative years there. You just never know when these languages will come in handy. If you'll pardon the flagrant self-promotion, my Norwegian, Swedish, and German have come in handy at the oddest moments over the years, often far beyond the regions where those languages are actually spoken! It certainly adds an interesting, and at times very useful, dimension to life.

Returning to the point at hand, I haven't felt up to much since Thursday for obvious reasons, so there has been plenty of idle time to tool around online, which meant that I eventually happened upon the illustrations shared today. Kind of cool, don't you think?

-- Heinz-Ulrich

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