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  1. PeterGunnLives

    The Man From UNCLE movie

    That's terrible news about Mr. Vaughan! I greatly enjoyed the new Man From UNCLE. This movie was what I wished Casino Royale had been.
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    For All You Larger Sized Men..

    As for reasons, previous generations of people were smaller. The relatively recent increase in human height has been linked to improvements in childhood nutrition.
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    Chaplin Mustache in Modern Day Society?

    The 2006 movie "One Night with the King," an adaptation of the Biblical story of Esther, had the evil genocidal villain and his posse using decorative swastika symbols, something that would only be seen as an overt display of evil to modern, Western audiences. That just made me go :rolleyes...
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    To get or not to get?

    In the 1930s, the midnight blue tuxedo was actually more popular than black. And something to keep in mind... at an indoor event under artificial lighting, a midnight blue tux will actually have a nicer appearance that looks closer to black to the eye, whereas an actual black fabric may have a...
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    Stafford JC Penney Brand ?

    In recent years, I have gotten some spiffy stuff from JC Penney, including a Harris Tweed jacket, and a dark blue sportcoat with a rust windowpane pattern and corduroy trousers in almost the same rust color, to go with the jacket. It's a very vintage look, especially when I wear tan and white...
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    Spectator Shoes

    I'm not sure if I should post a new thread for this... I have a pair of Stacy Adams black and white spectators from the nineties. Back then their stuff was nicer; these were made in Spain. Anyway, as an adolescent back then, I didn't know much about shoe care, and for the most part I left them...
  8. PeterGunnLives

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Water... cutting out empty calories for a bit.
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    Skinny lapels - ties - collars?

    I like the sleek, jet-age, Rat-Pack era look myself, too.
  10. PeterGunnLives

    Spectator Shoes

    I was looking at that same listing on ebay. The soles are a little thick for my taste, though. I like the Ben Shermans. The linen probably breathes nicely. But the bottoms have a bit too much grip, as I like to use specs as dancing shoes.
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    Finer specialty haberdasheries will offer a choice to get an extra pair of trousers (for an additional price) along with your suit. But the typical (and more affordable) mall department stores don't, unless you are getting suit separates, as I generally need to to do because the trousers in suit...
  13. PeterGunnLives

    In Need of some Help

    I would consider the longer jacket in that second picture be a form of frock coat, common in the Edwardian era. It's hard to tell how long the jacket in the first picture is. But I don't think that formalwear of that time had notch lapels like that; a jacket for evening wear would have had a...
  14. PeterGunnLives

    How do folks react to your hat wearing?

    Oh yeah, and there was that time when I was wearing the brown fedora along with a navy blue suit and a pair of cap-toe oxfords and a narrow tie, and I was walking down the street to go into a record store. A lady who seemed to be in her sixties did a double-take and said to me, "For a second, I...
  15. PeterGunnLives

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    I really enjoy Sunset Blvd. "I AM big, it's the pictures that got small!" Great stuff.
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    How do folks react to your hat wearing?

    ...except for the time at the end of the month last October when I was in an upscale grocery store and I happened to be wearing the brown hat along with a tan car coat, a pair of brogues and a narrow tie, and a store employee thought it was a Mad Men costume. I had to explain that it was...
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    How do folks react to your hat wearing?

    I generally only wear my hats in cold or rainy weather. My go-to's are low-end Stetson fedora/trilbies, like this: http://www.jcpenney.com/stetson-donegal-fedora/prod.jump?ppId=pp5007850234&catId=SearchResults&searchTerm=stetson wool fedora I'll wear either a gray one or a brown one, depending...
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    Romanian Fashions in the mid-20th Century

    Yes, these pics are great. I think the earlier comments about "badly dressed" are really unfair. Especially for rural denizens of a poor locale, those ladies and gentlemen looked WAY better put-together than the average Joe or Jane I see walking down the street or in the mall with ripped jeans...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I've been getting caught up on the last season of The Flash. It's fun, but I like the darker atmosphere of Arrow better. I have yet to watch Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow.
  21. PeterGunnLives

    What are you wearing today??

    I love the fleck sport coat.
  22. PeterGunnLives

    Lunch, Anybody?

    I will be having a dish of raw beef from a local upscale deli, to support my routine of old-school physical culture. Fitness gurus from the forties and fifties such as Armand Tanny and Vince Gironda swore by this.
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    Do you count 1945 through 1963 as part of the Golden Era?

    If the Golden Age was the thirties to mid-forties, then perhaps the post-war years through the first couple years of the sixties could be considered the Silver Age. And I'm a Silver Age kind of guy. I love the modernist architecture and furniture of those years, the car designs, the feature...

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