If you think dress up like a giant slab of filet mignon is a modern gadget , think again . Throughout his career in the 1600s , Parisian artist Nicolas de Larmessin II draw dozens of jovially wackadoodle caricatures of people showily clothe as their profession . How splashy ? Two parole : seafood wooing .
This 17th - century illustratordepicted a bungler wearing a courtship of cleavers and cow head , an apothecary festoon in drug , and an astrologist who somehow managed to cram the entire zodiac into one outfit . In short , this is what would occur if you get the peasantry of the 1600s high as kite and narrate them to invent superheroes . It ’d be all , “ Je voudrais Blacksmith - Man ” and whatnot .
And those two characters at the top are a musician wear down a suit made of instruments and a firework manufacturer who ’s decide to wear his product for some inexplicable reasonableness . Here are our ten favorite designs by de Larmessin . Basically , this is the historical precedent to Mega Man ’s rogues veranda .

1 . The Fisherman
2 . The Perfumist
3 . The Wine Merchant

4 . The Baker
5 . The Astrologist
6 . The Pastry Chef

7 . The Wild Game Merchant
8 . The Butcher
9 . The Hatmaker

10 . The Armorer
And just because we love you , here are some more of these outlandish outfits . I ’m in particular lovesome of the butter woman and the carver covered in his own artwork . These drawing off depend like the fodder for 10,000 Monty Python sketches . For more retro cosplay weirdness , delay out the “ women of the time to come ” andthe 1873 Charles Darwin theme Mardi Gras parade .
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