{Trans-sexual Dressing [continued]}[18th November 1990]

[Redbook8:117][19901118:2032b]{Trans-sexual Dressing [continued]}[18th November 1990]

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What of other* periods?

64J~1896 – 64G~1904 {–} 64R~1912: I tend to associate Beardsley and Wilde with this period, although both died relatively early;** both {conveying} a distinctly un-’masculine’ languidness of style in image of self or others, which does not necessarily go with the Aestheticism of which they might appear to be a late stage. I note that Beardsley enjoyed a notable revival in the 1960’s.***

Wilde was homosexual, Beardsley was **** not; if G~ implies male homosexuality, my earlier ideas linking male homosexuality and collegiate-ness around S~ are wrong.# The Gay#* movement certainly flourished from the late sixties/early seventies onward, along with feminism.

Men’s wigs came into fashion (in modern Europe) (after Louis XIII [of France]) in 1624, and lasted until the French and American Revolutions as a symbol of social status. This period of 128 years (64x2) is immediately before R~ on the 2048 year cycle; many men of the Civil War#*** period in England, of course, wore their hair long (popularly the ‘Cavaliers’ against the cropped Puritan ‘Roundheads’, although the division may not have been so clear-cut). I do not have any more information on hair lengths.

*[See last previous entry]

**[Aubrey Beardsley 1872-1898; Oscar Wilde 1854-1900]

***E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 2:13

[I remember it]

****[probably]

#ref (earlier Vol) IV? [?[Redbook4:189][19871130:0920b]{The Weight of Sin (2) [continued (3)] – Male and Female Influences*}[30th November 1987]?] – near end?

{There are different types of homosexuality: for example, in male homosexuality, the type that in its maleness fears the female ‘unknown’ and clubs together with other males, in varying states of intensity; and the type that is attracted to males from a female viewpoint albeit in a male body.}

[‘For example’ indicates that these are not suggested as the only types of male homosexuality; but the distinction within what was then considered homosexuality, between what might now be characterised as homosexual on the one hand, and trans-gender on the other, is perhaps interesting]

#*[In the modern, adopted sense of the word which has resulted in the loss of the previous meaning, unique to the word, as in “The Gay [Eighteen-]Nineties’, ‘Gay Paree’ [Paris]]

#**1642-48[ce]

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