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Keywords: 1824-smoking-Heath-caricature.jpg Corinthian Steamers or Costumes and Customs of 1824 a Feb 26 1824 caricature by W Heath showing a dandy's moustache catching on fire and another dandy behaving in shocking violation of etiquette This shows the very beginnings of the transition from Regency to Victorian attitudes with respect to facial hair and smoking both of which were considered outlandish and un-English during the Regency and are ridiculed here but later would come to be considered highly respectable during the Victorian period Male facial hair was not yet considered fully respectable and moustaches were associated with foreign continental European and military influences at the time and so had a secondary association with conspicuous dandyism Corinthian was another word for dandy At the right of the image a dandy is blowing smoke in a lady's face in flagrant violation of the etiquette of the time in which smoking was mostly not done indoors at all and never done in the presence of ladies Text in image ;Flaming dandy 2nd from left Fire Fire oh Dear my best Mustacios will be quite Destroyd ;Alarmed dandy next to left Fire Fire ;Fireman at left My Master I must fetch our Engine to put out your Steam Engine ;Caption on cloud at center-right Fond of Steaming Ladies do you smoke it eh The steam engine was a shiny new technology in 1824 so smokers are jocularly compared to steam-engines Scanned by H Churchyard from Dorothy George's Hogarth to Cruikshank 1824-02-26 W Heath PD-old-100 1824 cartoons Caricatures of fashion Caricatures of smoking Fashion in 1824 Dandies Etiquette in art William Heath artist
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