tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post5015403346013229449..comments2023-10-20T11:17:47.246-04:00Comments on Two Nerdy History Girls: Friday Video from the Archives: Leaving Work, c1895Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-77357296673984658962017-03-03T09:00:42.741-05:002017-03-03T09:00:42.741-05:00Its interesting that some of the women wear hats a...Its interesting that some of the women wear hats and some of them dont. Class? Age? All of them wore aprons though. Which is something I wouldnt have thought of as streetwear at this time. Thanks for sharing this video!vch0920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-80349312439533458672017-03-03T08:56:55.478-05:002017-03-03T08:56:55.478-05:00These factory gate films were common from about th...These factory gate films were common from about that time in the industrial towns of the UK. Mitchell and Kenyon was a big maker. It was a marketing gimmick -- they shot the film on the Thursday (for fairground owners usually) who told everyone to come along to the fair on Saturday to see themselves in the tent show cinema. Probably the first and only time most were ever on the screen.<br />I bet they were as popular in other countries in Europe and I guess in the US.<br />Google the name Mitchell and Kenyon to see working class working clothes, though every now and then a boss appears in his silk hat or a foreman in his Derby.Martin Hedgeshttp://actonbooks.comnoreply@blogger.com