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   margueritem said, 5 months ago

   Lose the cummerbund, Abe.
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   win said, 5 months ago

   Weird with a beard…
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   Dogsniff said, 5 months ago

   Honestly Abe.
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   orinoco womble said, 5 months ago

   @margueritem

   That’s not a cummerbund, it’s a girdle, so that his bullfighting suit will fit.
   Odd…today I had to open the image in a separate tab to see it.
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago

   Kinda young for abe in 1863. Maybe this was when he was training to be a lawyer…
   .

   Is that a trophy from the Black Hawk War?
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   finale said, 5 months ago

   Looks like Abe got a very unwelcome present from the Spanish Ambassador.
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   BlackTie said, 5 months ago

   I’m too sexy for my stovepie.
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   masterskrain said, 5 months ago

   @orinoco womble

   “And here is the latest in slimming accessories for men. Our newest creation, “The Shatner”, guaranteed to make you look up to 25 pounds lighter, even if you can’t take a deep enough breath to get through a full sentence!"
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   mabrndt said, 5 months ago

   Clicking it here will actually show a larger image than the one found here, or at Mr. Melcher’s blog entry. Who says GoComics doesn’t at least try?
   
   Young Man in the Costume of a Majo (links show description and Wikipedia pages, Costume description’s Google translated text, title; I recommend you use separate tabs for both the Costume and translated links) is described by its current-location page (click the image there for an interactive enlargement of its different coloration image) or alternate page.
   
   Another different coloration, click-to-enlarge image can be found here. Another different coloration image can be found here. The artist‘s (better artist link than last time) bio, Wikipedia page (Google translated French Wikipedia page has more) and collection (more under Subcategories at each level).
   
   Fifth of the 11 works (for some reason this, this, this, and the blog entry from the first line, aren’t in the list today; perhaps others will be missing in the future) by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here.
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    Linguist said, 5 months ago

    Amish Youth Gone Wild !
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    orinoco womble said, 5 months ago

    @mabrndt

    Yup, I was right. “Majo” is a Spanish word meaning “handsome/pleasant (young man)” and the costume was the basis of the “traje de luces” (suit of lights, ie bullfighting suit). Skin tight, form-fitting, eye-candy.
    Interestingly enough, in Spanish portraiture, the nude female lying voluptuously all over a sofa is known as a “Maja.”
    However in the North of Spain, “majo/a” is simply a complement, like calling you “sweetie” or “honey.”
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    ossiningaling said, 5 months ago

    @orinoco womble

    And here I thought Mary washed his vest in hot water.
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    mabrndt said, 5 months ago

    @orinoco womble

    So the title is Young Man in the Costume of a Handsome/Pleasant Young Man?? Sort of redundant.
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    Joe said, 5 months ago

    @Linguist

    You win!!!! (and the Rumspringa includes a tour as a picador!)
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    Joe said, 5 months ago

    @mabrndt

    perhaps "pleasant young MALE is more accurate? The root is maj-, complted by the appropriate gender, I think.
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