Recent content by Erich Johann

My first experience with flight sims was Flight Simulator 3.0 back in '91 ... Took a good five years before someone told me to press "W" to actually start the war in the combat ace part of the game ... SWOtL was great (got that game for cheap shortly thereafter).

Who knows when the clothing designers of today will jump on the 1920s (or the "Golden Age") in general ... And even then, it would only be an interpolation, a modern interpretation without the correct fabrics and construction details etc. pp. ... Sigh. Minus the "belt" on the back for me ;)

If you want to bash Borsalino, you can do that all you want in another thread--all I was trying to do is give some advice to anyone who might be travelling to Milan and thinks about getting a Borsalino there. Thanks.

Hope this is the right thread ... I was in Milan for a day last September and obtained a new Borsalino from their store in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. I had expected something like a two-story shop with humongous numbers and varieties of hats, but was a bit sobered when I finally found...

I just recently watched Es geschah am hellichten Tag (1958) - lots of double-breasted black suits in a farewell dinner scene ...

I have not. I guess it depends, then, on the time and the place after all ;) I can only speak from what I read about the German armed forces. At least in WWII, it was desirable to have proper uniforms, or at least mend them, and to have a prim and proper appearance in general. (Of course in...

Isn't it that military fashion at times influences civilian fashion? ;) And of course vice versa. I guess it would be redundant to reiterate the claim that German soldiers' clothing of the time was to give quite a striking impression. And let's not talk about Hugo Boss making uniforms ... These...

So I visited my town's Hutladen. They said I was lucky since they had just gotten winter season stock. When I asked for the old timey style, i.e. higher crown etc., they said it was not fashionable at the moment and so they do not have any hats in that direction (albeit the owner said she had...

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Are there any contemporary makers of longhair fedoras?

Makes me want to get one of those long hair ones too ...

Unfortunately, I only like to drink beer but am quite unfamiliar with the variances in hops, malt, etc. that are used when brewing beer. I guess what I was trying to say is that I do not like beers that would be called a Biermischgetränk (which wikipedia translates as "shandy"), i.e. beers mixed...

All, I did a search and came only across a few hits hidden in some threads and therefore thought it might be worthwhile to open a new thread. I was wondering if anybody is familiar with the French brand Chevignon? I have seen that there is some "official" company history on German wikipedia...

Beer with any flavoring -- berry, pineapple, you name it.

Thanks! The Sunday suit theory sounds viable.