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<blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 3534632" data-attributes="member: 892"><p>I believe the idea is that, in the stories of The Three Musketeers (set in France), style matters and fashion matters. Thus, lurking in the shadows while dressed in black would be more effective, but you would be unfashionable and nonstylish to do so, therefore it would not even be considered by a musketeer to be appropriate to lurk in the shadows unless one was dressed in the fashionable clothing of the day. If you like, it would be a convention of the stories, just as *no one* recognizing that Clark Kent looks like Superman in glasses is a convention of comic books.</p><p></p><p>The joke then comes from the woman observing this realizing that it is ineffective to lurk in the shadows while dressed that way. In a way, she is giving the modern view that style and fashion must be trumped by efficiency. The incongruity between the two experessed viewpoints, modern and Musketeer, generates humour in some observers of the comic strip in question.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Particle_Man, post: 3534632, member: 892"] I believe the idea is that, in the stories of The Three Musketeers (set in France), style matters and fashion matters. Thus, lurking in the shadows while dressed in black would be more effective, but you would be unfashionable and nonstylish to do so, therefore it would not even be considered by a musketeer to be appropriate to lurk in the shadows unless one was dressed in the fashionable clothing of the day. If you like, it would be a convention of the stories, just as *no one* recognizing that Clark Kent looks like Superman in glasses is a convention of comic books. The joke then comes from the woman observing this realizing that it is ineffective to lurk in the shadows while dressed that way. In a way, she is giving the modern view that style and fashion must be trumped by efficiency. The incongruity between the two experessed viewpoints, modern and Musketeer, generates humour in some observers of the comic strip in question. [/QUOTE]
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