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East_Stone_Ya
11-03-2013, 01:32 PM
criminals back in the day used to suit up pretty good :pimp:

http://i.imgur.com/cxemv50.jpg


http://themetapicture.com/police-mugshots-in-the-1920s/

East_Stone_Ya
11-03-2013, 01:34 PM
http://i.imgur.com/AJb9X7n.jpg

DeuceWallaces
11-03-2013, 02:10 PM
It says Fellini was really a woman posing as man for 20 years who murdered her "wife."

East_Stone_Ya
11-03-2013, 03:24 PM
It says Fellini was really a woman posing as man for 20 years who murdered her "wife."

yeah that was bizarre

Scholar
11-03-2013, 03:53 PM
I would still dress like that today if I could afford to. I don't care how "out of style" that would look. Those suits are fly.

Meticode
11-03-2013, 04:36 PM
William Stanley Moore totally representing.

senelcoolidge
11-03-2013, 05:17 PM
People dressed a lot more formal in those days. I'm guessing around the 60's is when people began to dress more casual and sloppy. Hippies probably. If you watch film of people in the 50's and before they dressed in suits and hats. Things were just more formal. I like that style. I like formality. Today if you tried to dress like that people would look at you like a weirdo.

Balla_Status
11-03-2013, 05:23 PM
I would still dress like that today if I could afford to. I don't care how "out of style" that would look. Those suits are fly.

These photos actually show what is actually "stylish." People still wear those suits today. They may not be fashionable but they are definitely a staple of men's style.

Those suits will still look nice 50 years from now. The trousers are the best...they're not baggy at all.

Balla_Status
11-03-2013, 05:25 PM
People dressed a lot more formal in those days. I'm guessing around the 60's is when people began to dress more casual and sloppy. Hippies probably. If you watch film of people in the 50's and before they dressed in suits and hats. Things were just more formal. I like that style. I like formality. Today if you tried to dress like that people would look at you like a weirdo.

It's also too damn hot in some areas.

methusala
11-03-2013, 11:38 PM
A time when self respect and present ability meant something, even if you were a criminal.

Now we got motherfukas in skinny jeans and bro tanks.

Immortal Bum
11-03-2013, 11:47 PM
i bet a lot of those guys were on boardwalk empire.

miller-time
11-03-2013, 11:48 PM
A time when self respect and present ability meant something, even if you were a criminal.

Now we got motherfukas in skinny jeans and bro tanks.

Self respect is important, but is it more important than promoting conformity? People can be more expressive today (especially males) where as back then social pressures were much more rigid.

BRabbiT
11-04-2013, 12:35 AM
http://3zgehi1uaxi23dphbrgqa50r6z.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Cnxtt1X-680x522.jpg

"He was described as a safebreaker"

ILLsmak
11-04-2013, 03:05 AM
criminals back in the day used to suit up pretty good :pimp:

http://i.imgur.com/cxemv50.jpg


http://themetapicture.com/police-mugshots-in-the-1920s/

De Gracy looks like the hardest dude out of all of them cept that Asian.

-Smak

Trollsmasher
11-04-2013, 03:13 AM
Classy:pimp:

De Gracy looks creepy though. He has those Roose Boltonesque eyes.

DCL
11-04-2013, 03:51 AM
t-shirts made in china or mexico weren't invented yet.:lol

tmacattack33
11-04-2013, 12:08 PM
There was more importance on social interaction then obviously.

Today I can go days without seeing anyone (yet still be very productive, doing hw and studying on my laptop at home). Back then anything you did that was productive must have involved being in front of other people.

-p.tiddy-
11-04-2013, 12:59 PM
these are fckin awesome

thanks for posting

DeuceWallaces
11-04-2013, 01:20 PM
Classy:pimp:

De Gracy looks creepy though. He has those Roose Boltonesque eyes.

It says he tried to solicit carnal relations with an 8 year old girl.

East_Stone_Ya
11-04-2013, 05:32 PM
some more photos

http://twistedsifter.com/2011/05/vintage-mugshots-from-1920s-black-white/

http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/vintage-mugshots-black-and-white-10.jpg


George Whitehall, carpenter, handed himself into Newtown police after hacking to death his common-law wife, Ida Parker on Thursday afternoon 21 February 1922, at their home in Pleasant Avenue, Erskineville. This photo was apparently taken the following morning at Newtown Police Station.

not a single **** given next day

East_Stone_Ya
11-04-2013, 05:34 PM
It says Fellini was really a woman posing as man for 20 years who murdered her "wife."

as a woman

http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/vintage-female-mug-shots-16.jpg


[QUOTE]Convicted of murder. Eugenia Falleni spent most of her life masquerading as a man. In 1913 Falleni married a widow, Annie Birkett, whom she later murdered. The case whipped the public into a frenzy as they clamoured for details of the

methusala
11-05-2013, 12:32 AM
Self respect is important, but is it more important than promoting conformity? People can be more expressive today (especially males) where as back then social pressures were much more rigid.

Conformity is a bigger part of being successful and happy in life than it is given credit for.

resin_baller
11-05-2013, 07:33 PM
Conformity is a bigger part of being successful and happy in life than it is given credit for.

Depends on the path in life you've chosen. In some paths it's almost a necessity, in others it's a total hinderance. In either one, at least knowing what you are expected to conform to is critical, and you'll need at least a little bit of the other side for that.

resin_baller
11-05-2013, 07:38 PM
Take a look at the way people here are posed compared to modern day mug shots. It's WAY closer to the way they'd actually look if you met them on the street.

Why is that? It's because mug shots were originally made to provide a reference for how someone would look if you saw them on the street. But they're not anymore.

There's still some show and dress-up like it's for a reference picture, with the height bars and everything, but that's not the real purpose of modern mugshots.

The real purpose of modern mugshots is to make the person in them look like they're guilty. Think about that for a second.

tomtucker
11-06-2013, 04:56 AM
Take a look at the way people here are posed compared to modern day mug shots. It's WAY closer to the way they'd actually look if you met them on the street.

Why is that? It's because mug shots were originally made to provide a reference for how someone would look if you saw them on the street. But they're not anymore.

There's still some show and dress-up like it's for a reference picture, with the height bars and everything, but that's not the real purpose of modern mugshots.

The real purpose of modern mugshots is to make the person in them look like they're guilty. Think about that for a second.

shit, you

ILLsmak
11-06-2013, 08:57 AM
It says he tried to solicit carnal relations with an 8 year old girl.

get off your ****in' high horse.

-Smak

OhNoTimNoSho
11-06-2013, 05:10 PM
They got mad swag