Hurry! Hurry!. Source: Fun (11 April 1868): 50. Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Click on image to enlarge it. A Victorian man buying a hat for his wife? Really? But the cartoon effectively comments on the speed with which mid-Victorian high fashion changed.
Jones: — Hullo, Smith! Haven’t seen you for an age — How are ye?”
Smith: — “Don’t stop me, there's a good fellow — just bought a new bonnet as a present for my wife, and I must hurry home with it, or it might be out of fashion by the time I get there!”
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