A salesman in a clothes shop invites a customer to 'walk this way'; the customer finds his way of walking too effeminate.. Colour process print, 194-.

Date:
[between 1940 and 1949?]
Reference:
2059379i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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A salesman in a clothes shop invites a customer to 'walk this way'; the customer finds his way of walking too effeminate.. Colour process print, 194-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Publication/Creation

England : Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. Art publishers to their Majesties the King and Queen and to her Majesty Queen Mary, [between 1940 and 1949?] (Printed in England)

Physical description

1 print : process print, printed in colours ; 14 x 8.8 cm

Lettering

"Would you care to walk this way, sir?" "Wot me? Not bloomin' likely." Tuck's post card. Postcard 79. R.T.S. trade mark

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "A well-known gay stereotype, the clothes shop assistant. The implication here is quite unequivocal. Fast-forwarded thirty years to the 1970s, this might be a gag in the long-running television series 'Are you being served?', in which the camp shop assistant Mr. Humphries was effectively portrayed by the camp actor John Inman".

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2059379i

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