Saturday, August 23, 2025

a checkered harlequin with the camouflage of mockery

Harlequin costume
Henry C. Rowland, Cross-Bearings, in The Meriden Daily Journal (Meriden CT) July 13, 1921—

A cold chill struck through the singer. She had heard that Americans were like that: of steel construction with a camouflage of mockery, resembling deadly destroyers with their harlequin paintwork.

Heinrich Koch

 

Above Heinrich Koch (1896-1934) dressed in a checkered pattern for a costume party (perhaps at the Dessau Bauhaus).

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