Sometimes being someone who gets a terrible, fierce joy out of solving obtuse technical problems while working among people who don’t enjoy their jobs feels like being the only guy in the mining camp who actually knows what gold looks like.
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A List of Don'ts for Women on Bicycles circa 1895 | Brain Pickings -
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- Don’t be a fright.
- Don’t faint on the road.
- Don’t wear a man’s cap.
- Don’t wear tight garters.
- Don’t forget your toolbag
- Don’t attempt a “century.”
- Don’t coast. It is dangerous.
- Don’t boast of your long rides.
- Don’t criticize people’s “legs.”
- Don’t wear loud hued leggings.
- Don’t cultivate a “bicycle face.”
- Don’t refuse assistance up a hill.
- Don’t wear clothes that don’t fit.
- Don’t neglect a “light’s out” cry.
- Don’t wear jewelry while on a tour.
- Don’t race. Leave that to the scorchers.
- Don’t wear laced boots. They are tiresome.
- Don’t imagine everybody is looking at you.
- Don’t scream if you meet a cow. If she sees you first, she will run.
Don’t cultivate a “bicycle face.”
Before the winter formal, a rare father-daughter photo. Not sure what we were doing when that photo was taken. I’m leaning towards something on the hammy-Broadway, light-racist-operetta spectrum.
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(via DOCUMERICA: Images of America in Crisis in the 1970s - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic)
