Oliver Hardy and Fatty Arbuckle might also merit a google.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Thank you! Taft is perfect- I don't know why I couldn't think of him! Although I may use the Australian man in my collage, since his is less recognizable!
In Googling a famously large man of the era, Diamond Jim Brady [link] I found this trove of news photos from the 1910s [link]
It's possible I may never emerge from the Library of Congress Flickr project.
Also I wish I had a snowball's chance in hell at getting a morning coat for this guy without making one- fat men look better in morning coats than sack suits. (I am doing a no money show, and can't rent one)
Winston Churchill 1920, though this does not quite count as a suit. [link]
I have been reading early 20th century men's taloring books, and they are ll based on an ideal figure (in one book they called him the regular Apollo) of 38 chest, 33 waist, 39 hips, and 5'8". Then they discuss the divergences from it- short, slim, corpulent and stout. Corpulent means a Big Guy- like a former athlete who has aged, while stout means having a big belly. Then there are whole chapters on how to make a coat for a hunchback, and pants for the bowlegged and knock-kneed!
That is fantastic.
There is a guy who works near me who is the most bowlegged person I've ever seen. It is bananas!
There is a guy who works near me who is the most bowlegged person I've ever seen
So we're not talking a Jensen Ackles Clarke Peters Thomas Gibson cute bowlegs thingy?
He's a grizzled old cowboy, right?