Fashion isn't just the preserve of a few luvvies in the big cities, you know... Dorset dwellers are completely au fait with cat walks; while our dog walks remain perennially popular.
This particularly debonair fashionista was named Harry Good and was portrayed by Robert Byng in the1720's modelling this rather modish get-up.
Here Harry cleverly combines Dorset style with Dorset practicality.
Harry was a gamekeeper on Cranborne Chase, North Dorset; famed in those days for deer hunting and more to the point, deer poaching. His chic, understated headwear and stick was a response to the increasingly violent confrontations that took place gamekeeper and gamesnaffler on the Chase.
...It never caught on
