A shadowgraph of three men's legs in white trousers,showing female legs underneath the trousers. Process print, 195-.

Date:
[between 1950 and 1959]
Reference:
2045368i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Credit

A shadowgraph of three men's legs in white trousers,showing female legs underneath the trousers. Process print, 195-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

The men's legs become silhouettes of women's legs when the viewer holds the reverse of the shadowgraph up to the light.

Publication/Creation

London ; Scarborough : E.T.W. Dennis & Sons, Ltd., [between 1950 and 1959]

Physical description

1 postcard : colour process print ; 8.9 x 13.8 cm

Lettering

Thing's are not always what they seem. Hold up to the light Lettering printed in black and blue on bottom recto.

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "A 'hold-to-light' novelty postcard...the muscular striding legs, clad [in] the Oxford Bags of the late 1920s are revealed when held to the light to be in two cases painfully thin, and in the third case to be wearing ladies' underwear of the type popularly known as 'French knickers'."
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Reference

Wellcome Collection 2045368i

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  • Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'

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