This picture came up today in BoingBoing.net, via a Tumblr post. What struck me, and several of the commenters, wasn’t so much the monkey aspect but the Woman On The Right.
She is an anachronism. She looks like someone you might meet on the street today.
But she probably did not adhere to beauty standards of the day: too scruffy, too thin, too ethnic. Some of the BoingBoing comments say:
- I’m pretty sure I saw the woman on the right in a coffe shop in the Mission the other day.
- The woman on the right really is striking. . .She could walk into most any bar or restaurant 90 years later and the majority reaction would be ‘wow’ (or at least. . .mmm okay).
Even the next-over woman isn’t so bad herself, though the hairstyle looks decidedly Marcelled or at least like something from the 1920s or 1930s:
