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Offline Uhnnohn

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White Ribbon On Man's Suit?
« on: Saturday 08 July 23 20:22 BST (UK) »
Does anyone know what might be the white thing on the front of this young man's suit?
Does it signify anything in particular?
A fraternal organization?

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Re: White Ribbon On Man's Suit?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 10 July 23 08:13 BST (UK) »
Personally I think it is a handkerchief, instead of being in jacket pocket, it was on jacket neck.

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Re: White Ribbon On Man's Suit?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 10 July 23 09:18 BST (UK) »
It looks as if it's been inserted through the button hole on the lapel. I'm not sure what it would be.

It might be worth doing  a Google search to see if there are any other similar images.

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Re: White Ribbon On Man's Suit?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 10 July 23 10:04 BST (UK) »
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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
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Re: White Ribbon On Man's Suit?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 10 July 23 11:18 BST (UK) »
Great find, janan. If you scroll down, that same photo recurs with another caption: "A note on the rear of this image reads: ‘The best wishes from Class of ’08, Texas College, to Mrs Minnie Apperson’". So probably some sort of academic or sporting ribbon from the college.
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Re: White Ribbon On Man's Suit?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 10 July 23 13:03 BST (UK) »
Quote from: janan on Monday 10 July 23 10:04 BST (UK)
It doesn't say anything about the significance of the ribbon but there are more examples here
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/feb/09/taste-of-freedom-black-america-19th-century-photographer-in-pictures-cornell-university-archive

Thanks Janan
Those smaller ribbons were used for 8th-grade graduations in my area until the 80s
Perhaps they were bigger in earlier years
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