Etsy find
I've been collecting antique photos for ages, but this is my first bicycle-related antique photo! A cabinet card found in the vintage category of etsy.
They're all dressed the same, which makes me think they were a bicycling team or club. The fella with the 'stache is certainly a handsome devil!
Edit to add: I have been informed by a reader who knows more about these things than I, the following - these fellows may have belonged to a club, but chances are they are dressed the same because that was the custom of those days. Specific activities had specific costumes and to deviate from that just wasn't done.
They're all dressed the same, which makes me think they were a bicycling team or club. The fella with the 'stache is certainly a handsome devil!
Edit to add: I have been informed by a reader who knows more about these things than I, the following - these fellows may have belonged to a club, but chances are they are dressed the same because that was the custom of those days. Specific activities had specific costumes and to deviate from that just wasn't done.
