Maxim’s, Anybody?

I feel like eating out today. Who’d like to join me at Maxim’s?

Studio Henri Manuel, Paris, 1929

According to Wikipedia, this restaurant has been a go-to eatery for the well-heeled since 1893 & currently belongs to Pierre Cardin.

Jean Cocteau is quoted as saying in 1913: “It was an accumulation of velvet, lace, ribbons, diamonds and what all else I couldn’t describe. To undress one of these women is like an outing that calls for three weeks’ advance notice”

Of course, by 1929 the world was speeding up considerably. You could have stripped most flappers in sixty seconds flat.

Maxim’s Paris

It was the men who still insisted on wearing  hat, coat, detachable collar, tie, vest, braces, cufflinks, a long-sleeved shirt and undershirt, etc….

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Charlie Chaplin 1922. A natty dresser when he wasn’t acting the “Tramp”

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