Dressing up: a goofy costume gallery
People love dressing up, but not everybody can score a role on stage. Family photo albums are a rich source of images of amateur actors, young and old, pretending for a time to be somebody else. Of course, almost all of these photos would raise eyebrows today for cultural appropriation. She's a fairy, of course, with spotless outfit in a lovely woodland setting. From a glass plate negative, circa 1910. Remember "F Troop"? This classic 1960s colour slide by Eric Sutherland shows youngsters Kerry Stahlut and Mark Sullivan at Newcastle's East End. The young photobomber in…