Of tricorns, wigs and mullets

I am back. I saw the movie, really the end of it, "Tom Jones" last week. I believe the film won the Best Picture Oscar back in 1963 (ancient times as far as I am concerned). It featured a young Albert Finney (not with a not yet born me). It was pretty funny as it took place in London, England in the sixteenth or seventeenth century, near as I could tell.

In looking at the costumes and hairstyles of the men, I found myself laughing. You just do not see enough dudes wearing tricorn hats. You don't unless you leave in Pirate Cove, and even then I figure the pirates have given up the tricorns for dewrags, bandanas and baseball caps. That is a fashion statement I would like to see brought back. Let us all pledge to do what we can to start a fashion trend, men wearing tricorns. We could start by getting some of Hollywood's finest wearing the things. It would be cool.

Not the tricorns, per se, but starting a mass trend. Creating the proverbial snowball before we let it roll down the mountain, picking up snow and momentum, to become an avalanche, or a big, painful snow boulder, crushing all in its path. Now that would be cool!

I also noticed that the dudes of that period had long hair and wore wigs with a bow in them. It is a wonder that our species was propogated during that period when the men were flitting about looking like ponce queers. Again, not that there is anything wrong with that, but no childrens get birthed if the men are galavanting with other men, that is not me taking that is nature and science. I am not advocating the use of wigs and bows on men. It would not work with all the shaven head, aerodynamic dudes, and they have nowhere to place the ribbon and bow.

There were an awful lot of mullets, or mullet potential, back then too. I am now thankful that I did not live back then. I could not have handled the mullets, wigs and bows, I could have gotten into the tricorns, though. A society that looks like the Quaker Oats Quaker, that is what it is all about. That dude knew where it was at.

Ciao! Not much of an ending segue but it is all I got today.