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Malcolm Scott in character as a "Gibson Girl". Photographic postcard, 191-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The female impersonator Malcolm Scott (1872-1929), in drag wearing a clinging full-length black dress. Scott's impersonations of famous female figures from history and popular culture were a big draw at major music halls in the days before World War I, but also included performances of pantomime dames, and comic burlesque of women popularly considered 'beauties'. Here he is copying the pose and figure of Camille Clifford, the American-Belgian star of 'The Gibson girl', produced in London in 1903.
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