Exploring The Waste Land
A miscellaneous page linked from The Waste Land, Part III, line 234
Silk hat
Line 234
The image at the left is a depiction of Jiggs, the hero of the long
running comic strip Bringing Up Father. Like the Bradford
millionaires of
The Waste Land,
Jiggs was also nouveaux riche. He was bricklayer who won the
Irish Sweepstakes. It was his wife Maggie, a washerwoman, who used
this opportunity to attempt social climbing. Jiggs, to keep his wife
happy, would dress up with his silk hat and spats but he would also
sneak off to visit his old friends at the bar Dinty Moores, much to the
annoyance of his wife.
Bringing Up Father had a long run, from 1913 to the very late
1990s.
External Links (shown in AUXILARY window):
Hints for using external links are available in the either the
DEFINTIONS frame or this frame.
Links:
- L 198 - Bringing Up Father: The Illustrative Style of George McManus
- Describes and shows the elegant illustrative style of the early "Bringing Up Father" comic strips.
- L 199 - Don Markstein's Cartoonopedia: Bringing Up Father
- Describes the long-running "Bringing Up Father" comic strip.
- L 251 - The Clothes of a Gentleman
- A chapter from Emily Post's 1922 book Etiquette. It covers silk hats, white flannel trousers, cuffs, spats and much more.
Exploring The Waste Land
File name: mq234.html
File date: Sunday, September 29, 2002
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