Dapper Criminal

Looking at this picture of this kid and you think, what the heck? This kid is sitting for a mug shot and facing a few months hard labor for stealing some shirts. Dirt poor, probably living in some tenement flat, or underneath one more the like, maybe a family, but dirt poor, crowded in a small space. He skips school and hangs out on the street raising a little ruckus.

But still he looks dapper as hell. 16, a long time tenant of the prisons, real name James Dooneley, but already has an alias as James Darley.

In the gilded age being cool was required.  More here.