This is a fun photograph it seems to be a group having fun after a Cricket Match (Game). This is another of my recent acquisitions. It looks like it is late Victorian (in the 1890s) based on the look of the women’s dresses and size of their hats. The photograph seems to be from the Victorian period – it is a Cabinet Card that has started to yellow – another clue. It’s all totally crazy – the score card numbers are everywhere and I don’t know what the significance of who has what number – an in joke perhaps?
A lot of different hats here. Kudos to the man in the centre of the back row – very smartly dressed in a bowler.
Two of the men are still wearing their protective cricket pads and some of the women are holding cricket bats. Was this a co-ed game – probably not, probably just horsing around. The young lady in the middle of the middle row pretending to bowl (pitch) the ball looks like someone to contend with. There is a “person” next to her dressed in a bonnet – a man playing around and probably not a true cross dresser.
Altogether a fun photo – I think it’s Canadian too and we here are not really huge cricket fans (maybe an English import of a photo taken in the UK).
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A very fun photograph!
I like the couple standing on the left side of the photo – any idea what the ladies hat style was called?
Wow fastest comment on record. I am not aware of a name for the type of hat. The maker at the time may have given it a trade name -long lost perhaps. Any ideas readers?
I would love to know … just for interests sake
In the photo, there are only ~3 people not wearing something on their head! Those were the good old days hmm
Yes these were the good old days we should do our best to bring at least some of it back. Please let me know readers the name of the style in the hat referred to – I will answer the question directly if I come across the answer.