Female impersonator
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Cleodinerie, 1903
Female impersonator wearing a wig, pearls and a flowered tutu posing as a ballerina with arms in fifth position. The card is a spoof of the celebrated dancer and demimondaine Cléo de Mérode (1875-1966). A doggerel verse printed in red on the recto refers to the dancer's charms as designed to "captiver un prince."
Costumes poitevins, 1909
Addressed to Mademoiselle Gratecap. Depicts couple dressed in traditional garb of the Poitou region on the west coast of France.
Illusion's perdues, 1920
Reproduction of a line-drawing caricature: Female impersonator undressing revealed to be a skinny man.
La bretagne pittoresque - la plus belle fille de Pont-Aven, 1915
Female impersonator with gray hair and handlebar moustache dressed in the traditional garb of a woman from Brittany, including a bigouden (starched lace headdress), and with a market basket on one arm and an umbrella under the other. Addressed to Monsieur Dumont; signed Horace (?). Message refers teasingly to representation of gender on postcard.
La plus serieuse des Lorientaises, 1917
Mustachioed man dressed as a peasant woman carrying a basket and an umbrella.