He also spent over 30 years as "The Rat" of Packrat Antiques, his restoration company. He is best known as a permanent fixture (and Director of Maintenance) at The Palace Saloon, where he would tell the history of Florida's Oldest as well as clean, maintain and restore the historic building on Centre Street. He graduated from Fernandina Beach High School, Class of 1986. Through these travels he developed his love for shark's teeth, bottle collecting and antiques. and finally settled in Fernandina Beach when he was a young teen. Their Navy family was stationed in Groton, CT, Charleston, SC, Pascagoula, MS. A 1920s black wool suit in the show belonged to Blanche Oelrichs (her pseudonym: Michael Strange), a cross-dressing poet and actress who was married to the actor John Barrymore and later became the companion of the author Margaret Wise Brown.William Curtis Brown, age 53, passed away unexpectedly at his home on Sunday, January 9th in Fernandina Beach, Florida.Ĭurtis was born in Bunnell, Florida on November 2,1968 to William K. The American 19th-century landscape painter William Trost Richards may have reminisced about his exotic trips along Mediterranean shores while wearing his 1850s dressing gown, which is patterned with paisleys recalling North African designs. The Rhode Island design museum’s show will include clothes tailored for past owners of “all sizes and heights and girths,” Ms. And the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is working on a survey for 2016, “Reigning Men: From the Macaroni to the Metrosexual.” (In 2011 that museum spent $78,000 on a rare striped zoot suit made around 1940.) At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “ Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity,” which runs through May 27, devotes display cases to black top hats and frock coats. “ Ivy Style,” an exhibition that closed in January at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, covered a century of preppy clothing, mostly for boys and men. Oscar Wilde’s velvet outfits largely vanished after his death at 46 in Paris in 1900, but a sympathetic French hotelkeeper’s family did return one dress shirt to his heirs. Nothing worn by the 19th-century British trendsetter Beau Brummell is known to survive he died indebted and insane at the age of 61 in a French asylum in 1840. The curators of “Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion,” a show opening on April 28 at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Museum of Art in Providence, struggled to find clothing belonging to a few historical celebrities whose fortunes later soured. Men who dress with eye-catching individuality sometimes run out of money before their wardrobes can be preserved for posterity. Lerch said before plugging in a pair of nodding mechanical lovebirds costumed as a bride and groom. He acquires his pieces through a dealer network and his own Web site,. Lerch said, “the common theme is craziness, or eccentricity.” He lingered briefly over some Bakelite clocks and parasol handles in his home before heading into what he calls a “crazy Moorish Revival fretwork room” with wood carvings.
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