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Stripes

Stripes
Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: STRIPES
For the week of October 6 - October 12, 2025.
This couple are sporting distinctive stripes - the woman in a striped dress with ruffled sleeves and the man with a striped shirt under his waistcoat.
Are they going somewhere special? Perhaps to a parade or church function? Perhaps a friendly visit to the neighbors?
No available information, so we’ll never know.
This is a glass plate negative, found several years ago in East Middlebury, Vermont, in a now closed antique store.

Hey, just realized a couple of hours ago that this is a fence picture as well as a VPTP one!
HFF friends - wishing everyone a good weekend!

RicksPics, Frans Schols, Patrick Brandy, Peter_Private_Box and 11 other people have particularly liked this photo


20 comments - The latest ones
 William Sutherland
William Sutherland club
Awesome shot!
10 months ago.
Deborah Lundbech club has replied to William Sutherland club
Thanks, William.
10 months ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
A nice one:-) HFF and a good weekend!
10 months ago.
Deborah Lundbech club has replied to Gudrun club
Thanks for your visit and kind comment, Gudrun!
10 months ago.
 Xata
Xata club
People could be so elegant by then...
HFF to you, best weekend wishes.
10 months ago.
Deborah Lundbech club has replied to Xata club
Thanks, Xata! I agree - but can’t help thinking of the immense effort it took to dress like this.
I hope your weekend is going well!
10 months ago.
 Roger (Grisly)
Roger (Grisly) club
What a fabulous and elegant image !!!
HFF and a good weekend!
10 months ago.
Deborah Lundbech club has replied to Roger (Grisly) club
Thanks so much, Roger! It was a very satisfying find.
It’s sometimes hard to judge the quality when going through boxes of glass plate images - but this one turned out to be a gem!
10 months ago.
 Christa1004
Christa1004 club
A great image from the past. HFF Deborah.
10 months ago.
Deborah Lundbech club has replied to Christa1004 club
Thank you for your appreciation, Christa!
I hope you are enjoying a happy weekend!
10 months ago.
 Ecobird
Ecobird club
What a great find Deborah. Elegant and I love the 'matching' outfits

HFF and have a good weekend
10 months ago.
Deborah Lundbech club has replied to Ecobird club
Thanks, Carol! The matching outfits really make me wonder if they were in a parade.
Glass plates negatives rarely come with any identifiers though, so we’ll never know!
10 months ago.
 Dimas Sequeira
Dimas Sequeira club
Nice scene of the past! HFF, Deborah!
10 months ago.
Deborah Lundbech club has replied to Dimas Sequeira club
Thank you, Dimas! I’m happy you enjoyed it!
10 months ago.
 Peter_Private_Box
Peter_Private_Box club
Hi Deborah
A wonderful and interesting picture, which I like very much!
Very nice composition
Great in B&W too
Best Wishes, (very late) HFF, a nice week ahead, and stay safe!!
Peter
10 months ago.
Deborah Lundbech club has replied to Peter_Private_Box club
Thanks, Peter! I appreciate your visit and kind comment. The whole image seems to be carefully set up - almost cinematic, isn’t it?
If only we knew what the story behind it was!
Happy (even later) HFF! Hope your weekend was a good one.
10 months ago. Edited 10 months ago.
 RicksPics
RicksPics club
Oh! This is a gem, Deborah. Two sets of stripes, excellent focus and tone, and it aroused a flood of curiosity about the subjects. That poor woman seems so tightly sinched up. I hope she didn't pass out during the ride.
10 months ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
Thanks, Rick! I was pretty happy to see the details and the quality of the picture once it was processed - as you can only see it as a negative in the store!
Sadly, the woman was probably used to the constriction. : (
10 months ago.
RicksPics club has replied to Deborah Lundbech club
My daughter and her husband rented a Victorian home near Boston and as they toured the house with the realtor, they came to a very small room at the top of the stairway on the second floor. Lauren commented on the small size of the room and the realtor told them it was a "fainting room" a space that Victorian women could retreat to if their constricting garments were causing them to feel faint.
9 months ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
Wow! That’s wild. I was just talking to someone who told me she had read that the “whalebone corset stories" were all widely exaggerated, (It was someone's thesis) I thought “I guess you haven’t seen the old photographs I have”.
Your daughter’s story would have furthered my resistance!
Years ago, I went on a tour with some friends to a few houses in Bristol. One of the houses was a large Victorian and the owner, dressed up a little like Miss Haversham, showed us a room that was her “hat room”.
Yep, a room that only held her collection of hats.
9 months ago.

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