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Male Model Scene

Model Joao Marques @ Ideal People Management 

Photography Dookie Ducay 

Styling by Argie Salango

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Esquire España

Model Wouter Peelen 

Photography Hunter & Gatti

Styling Berta Alvarez

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The Fashionisto

www.esquire.es/

Real Pirates

This morning I was paying my daily visit to  'Stamos Kilts, a Brazilian blog devoted to kilts and men-skirts, (as well as cool retro styles such as Gothic and Victorian fashions). 

Its author, professor Rommel Werneck, himself a proud kilt-wearer, posted these pics of a kilted "pirate costume", which arose my curiosity. 

Could this be true? 

Did manly pirates and buccaneers of yore actually wear beautiful pleated "un-bifurcated" garments such as these?

As it turned out from my brief research... they actually did! 

I came across some etchings depicting the first production of Gilbert and Sullivan's catchy-tune operetta The Pirates of Pensance, which was successfully  premiered simultaneously in New York and London in 1879. 

It so happens that all the singing pirates appear, not even in kilts, but in gorgeous fustanella-like skirts!

In all events, G&S were closer in time to the real-life legendary pirates who razed the Caribbean coast 'till the mid-XIX Century: I guess their sea robbers are more accurate than the ones featuring in more recent portrayals, such as the dazzling mascara-wearing pirates presented by the Disney film crew.

The musical buccaneers kept their skirts for the following stagings of the show.
At some point, alas, they lost them: Modern stagings of G&S Pirates show them in trousers.

These photographs come from authentic D'Oly Carte productions of the work, during the early 1920's:

 Rounding up: the Disney producers should consider dressing Johnny Depp in a skirt for his next outing as  Jack Sparrow. 

That, of course, in addition to his earrings, long hair and eye-makeup. 

What comes next? High heels?

Source

The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive

http://stamoskilts.blogspot.com.

Into the Wild

Fiasco Magazine

Photography Nicolas Guerin 

Models Eugeniy Sauchanka, Adam Wallace 

 

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The Fashionisto

Fiasco Magazine

Ye olde Buffalo

Skateboarding in breeches? Soccer shoes worn with a Renaissance ruff collar? Fashion or costume?

The tendency won't probably catch, but let's admit that the olde fashions of yore do have, paradoxically, a refreshing effect on today's style.

Perhaps their place is not necessarily the museum after all!

The collection is part of Buffalo Stance, and this particular segment is entitled, not surprinsingly, 'Past' - Monarchy in the UK.

It was set up by the original Buffalo team, photographer Jamie Morgan with stylists Barry Kamen and Mitzi Lorenz.

The models are siblings: Phoenix and Callum Wilson, and Claude and Louis Simonon.