That's great.

I had to look at it for a moment, and was like, "Wait a minute, she looks... and that one... aha!"

BoPo, I did the same thing. But I first attributed it to the fact that women at the turn of the last century didn't routinely wax their eyebrows.

Shorpy is teh awesome, and that one, well...spotted s/he right off.

wait, was that from a meet up?

AWESOME! I forgot all about Shorpy! Thanks for bringing it back to mind!

Shorpy is teh awesome, and that one, well...spotted s/he right off.

Which one?

It wasn't at all unusual for men/boys to play women/girls in theatricals in the past,or vice-versa (as described in Little Women). Especially when secondary schools were largely gender-divided.

There was an American Express ad in the very late 80's that featured John Cleese in tasteful drag that absolutely cracked me up. This pic reminds me of it because the guys are so completely deadpan.

That guy over there on the right seems to be Eugene Levy.

Yeah, Miko is right -- this wouldn't have merited an eye blink back then. In fact even in 1910 drama was still considered a bit ... louche ... for girls.

If you watch WWII dramas like Stalag 17, you see male POWs dancing with other male POWs without a care in the world for how it looks. Some guy generously just chooses to play the woman, and other men dance with "her" just for the moment of imagination it brings.

Heck, in the pilot for The Persuaders, Tony Curtis and Roger Moore walk arm-in-arm in London. Tony Curtis is a force of some kind of nature, to be sure, but that wouldn't fly today.

The Odds with Kids In The Hall.

i'd forgotten about the odds , they were the house band at The Roxy called The Dawn Patrol in Vancouver wat back in the 80s