Gentleman Callers

A lot of the challenges this month (week, too!) give masculine prompts. What's considered masculine? Pipes and cars, cigars and airplanes, fishing, tobacco brown and navy for color, hunting, hiking, paragliding... what else is there? Oh yes, grilling, pitching a tent, washing a car, reading a newspaper. (I am bored already.)

I started thinking of secret and urgent desires of gentlemen, perhaps of an era gone by. A"gentleman caller" chez a lady was never appropriate and would tarnish her reputation. However, there were always ladies not too picky on reputation and more concerned about their bread and butter (and a new silk gown...) if you get my drift.

The atc's are about men, but they don't show men.

Gentleman callers in the Night 1-3

Rosie lives in 940 B--- Street

She also plays at a revue theater

Ellie in apartment 2 will stay up late

Entering these into:
Smudgy Antics Challenge: Anything goes (but with a twist into macabre, dark, creepy or saucy... this is saucy)
Anything but Cute Challenge: Masculine
Stamps and Stencils: Small is beautiful (meaning atc's, tags... the likes)

On technique:
I made the background paper. It is a babywipe, dried up long ago but kept for just this purpose.  It had blue ink from cleaning some stamps. I placed wooden numbers on it to get a stencil and sprayed everything with blue and brown Tattered Angels mist. While it was drying I took all my vintage office stamps and stamped all around. When it was dry I cut it into three pieces for backgrounds, added Victorian photos of ladies, the spray painted numbers and some found objects.