The extravagant, outrageous, and often humorous outfits worn by subjects of old portraits.
Anthony Van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641) • James Stuart, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lenox • 1633
The duke is sporting the latest in hairstyles - the lovelock. Also called a Bourbon lock, French lock, or heart breaker. He must've missed the scathing indicment below.
“Although considered quite fashionable, many people detested lovelocks, considering them unnecessary and extravagant. In 1628 a sixty-three page book denouncing lovelocks was published. The author, William Prynne, railed against the wearing of lovelocks as “Unlovely, Sinfull, Unlawfull, Fantastique, Disolute, Singular, Incendiary, Ruffianly, Graceless, Whorish, Ungodly, Horred [Horrid], Strange, Outlandish, Impudent, Pernicious, Offensive, Ridiculous, Foolish, Childish, Unchristian, Hatefull, Exorbitant, Contemptible, Sloathfull, Unmanly, Depraving, Vaine, and Unseemly,” according to Richard Corson in Fashions in Hair.”
Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641) • Henri II de Lorraine • 1634 • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Sorry, girls and boys, this gent is spoken for. Henri is wearing ribbons in his lovelock, which symbolizes a token from a romantic interest. He didn't read the memo, either.
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Princess Anne and Jackie Stewart at a banquet thrown for him by Ford on his retirement from motor racing on 19 December 1973
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He is Princess Anne's son Peter Phillips, the apple of Prince Philip's eye and, if his mother ursuped his uncle, he would be a warmly welcome heir apparent.
For the Queen and Prince Philip, 16-years-old Peter is the perfect grandson. Rugged and out-going, he carries the weight of his lineage and his parents' divorce with insouciance. He is the kind of son Philip wanted, but Charles could never be.
While Charles is sensitive, old-fashioned and, behind his benevolance and altruism, very royal Peter is hearty, easy going and straightforward.
"This boy is a winner," Prince Philip was once reported as saying. When he was younger, Peter and Prince Philip were often seen sneaking off through the dawn mists for an hour or two of duck shooting before breakfast or disappearing at dusk to wait in hides for ducks to come to roost.
Peter had clay pigeon shooting lessons from Jackie Stewart at Gleneagles and, as the offspring of two Olympian equestrians, he is a keen and able horsmen.
Peter Phillips: A royal winner in the wings - Daily Express 13 August 1994
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