It look like we can add the divine Rudolph Valentino to the short list of exceedingly handsome men who can, against all odds, sport a turban and serious jewels and still retain more than a shred of masculinity. Actually, Rudy looks butcher here than he often did in far more conventional getups. There's a lesson there, somewhere...
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Gender Euphoria II
It look like we can add the divine Rudolph Valentino to the short list of exceedingly handsome men who can, against all odds, sport a turban and serious jewels and still retain more than a shred of masculinity. Actually, Rudy looks butcher here than he often did in far more conventional getups. There's a lesson there, somewhere...
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I'd add just a touch of eyeliner to him here.
ReplyDeleteAnd he'd still look masculine.
I have another one for the list if a bandolier counts as jewelry.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on the eyeliner MJ (and when am I not?), but I'm afraid, Bill, that your example (while toothsome) is firmly in the bedouin-turban, rather than the Norma Desmond-turban camp (accent on camp), which makes it all very different.
ReplyDeleteAnd a bandolier only counts as jewellery if it's a Lacroix.