Monday 19 March 2012

The passport photo


As another birthday fast approaches
so too does the ten year passport renewal.



They wouldn't let me wear a jaunty hat,
present my good side,
smile, 
or prop my double chin 
on a diverting yellow-gloved hand.

Bananas it is then.


United Fruit Company advertisement
from Reader's Digest April 1954.

3 comments:

  1. The magazine article makes interesting reading but, bearing in mind how long ago it was written, we don't seem to have made much headway.

    I did like the illustration a great deal.

    I disliked the restrictions put on me the last time I posed for a passport photo, no spectacles, can you imagine?

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  2. But at least you'll be able to wear a jaunty hat, present your good side,
    smile, and present your documents with a diverting yellow-gloved hand as you go through passport control next time so as to confound the person who has to confirm that you are the woman depicted.

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  3. I find my colourful selection of turbans, always deployed at a somewhat jaunty angle, both silences the UKPA, and distracts attention from rampant male-pattern alopecia..

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