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Anyway, I recently saw Charlie Chaplin's City Lights, a movie filmed in 1931. While I usually love the women's clothing in these movies (and it was indeed adorable), I also kind of felt the urge to dress like Chaplin in his tramp persona, with his fitted plaid waistcoat, baggy pants, too-tight cutaway jacket, and little cravat. (Plus the thick black eyeliner that men always wore in old movies! With a three piece suit, no less!) I love how everything looked battered but went together so well and fit in such a specific way- and there's something so crumbling and dandyish about this look, which I love. Not to be all ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiubgx8yPkg2KsGcZGggRfrLH6dhi_Xui9Su6NyFIjozfjtIhdDC6jB7V9PUafg4OBa2SXVQQhYVzDvOqtGr1feSzKzKj0cz6hPh109v36yfQdWTCsoweXquZMKSBpdBGYxKKI9bF5yCbw/s320/chaplin2.bmp)
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"derelicte"/upper middle class, but come on, even the homeless used to have a better sense of aesthetics.
Admittedly, I don't think I could pull off this look, and think my general fear of vests won't help, but I did remember I'd saved some awesome pictures of Shalom Harlow in a Chaplin-inspired photoshoot. She looks a lot awesomer than if she were wearing a saggy American Apparel t-shirt and those oversized glasses everyone has that fill me with rage, you know?
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