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  1. JimWagner

    Which decade is the worst in terms of style?

    http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp Maybe this will help answer the origin of sagging question.
  2. JimWagner

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Yesterday I watched The Radioland Murders. Lightweight, but funny.
  3. JimWagner

    Raybans

    My dad had a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses he'd had since WWII. They looked like the Outdoorsman to me except with graduated lenses. I loved the look of those sunglasses. I've had a number of Ray Ban sunglasses over the years, Outdoorsman, Aviators with goggle lens (tear drop) and cable...
  4. JimWagner

    Our own vintage town

    Not just a western thing. Small southern towns, and I'm talking about towns with populations of 5000 or less like I grew up in, commonly had lots larger than a half acre. Sure, there were also smaller lots, but nothing as small and crowded feeling as the pictures I've seen of small northern...
  5. JimWagner

    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    There's really nothing new under the sun. There's a documented incident in 1922 of an actual riot over men wearing straw hats; http://www.thehistorybox.com/ny_city/riots/SectionIII/riots_article6a.htm There were plenty of incidents in the 60's over the way hippies dressed. The actor Michael...
  7. JimWagner

    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    Just to play devil's advocate for a minute, if one dresses inappropriately for the situation, whether that be under or over dressed, or too far outside the norm, as in wearing clothing that is clearly anachronistic, then comments are too be expected. That is human nature. No matter how...
  8. JimWagner

    Black armbands for mourning... when did that stop?

    I am probably wrong here, but I thought it was mainly a practice when you didn't wear a black suit. As affluence made it possible for men to own several suits, one of which might already be black, the practice probably when by the wayside. Add on top of that less formality. I've been...
  9. JimWagner

    Where on the radio?

    You aren't going to have much luck with AM or FM, especially on long trips. XM does have channels dedicated to what you are looking for and since it's satellite based you won't lose the channel on trips.
  10. JimWagner

    When did the Slide Toward Casual Begin in Earnest?

    Probably a little bit of everything that's been suggested in this thread is true. I think that it's just been a gradual evolutionary change in dress spread out over many many years. Go back a couple of hundred years and "proper dress" would only be relevant in the context of the nobility...
  11. JimWagner

    Dating for Fedora Loungers?

    Depends entirely on what kind of jobs each hold, doesn't it? Wages have pretty much increased over the past 50 years, haven't they? If you have facts to the contrary, let's see them. This assumes a steady state job market with no growth. Clearly not the case except in the most recent...
  13. JimWagner

    Rare WWII Bill Mauldin?

    In addition to "Up Front" you might like "Willie & Joe, the WWII Years". http://www.amazon.com/Willie-Joe-Years-Bill-Mauldin/dp/B002DMJTZA/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_4 I picked up my copy at a comic book store. The OP's cartoon is on pp 124 of vol 2. I could have sworn I'd seen it in "Up...
  14. JimWagner

    What Does Your Hat Cost?... 1921

    Would be good to cross-post in the How Much Do You Tip Your Barber thread :D
  15. JimWagner

    Dating for Fedora Loungers?

    Common values are much more important than common interests. Interests change over the life of a marriage but values are what sustain it. Now that we are in our 60's neither my wife nor I have hardly any of the same interests we had in our 20's but our values have remained constant over the...
  16. JimWagner

    How did you find the lounge?

    I was looking for some information sources about Akubras and ended up here.
  17. JimWagner

    Netsuke

    Something like that might make an interesting pocket watch fob. ;)
  19. JimWagner

    Outdoor Preparedness Overkill

    Word to live by regardless of where you are.
  20. JimWagner

    How to be well groomed.

    Really? And that was my point.
  21. JimWagner

    How to be well groomed.

    :arated: And I'm sure that was the attitude of the film makers.
  22. JimWagner

    Is dressing vintage a purely modern day phenomenon?

    While there may be some examples of some quite well off people (with time and money on their hands) from earlier generations dressing differently than everyone else, most "normal" people were much too busy earning their existences to have either the time, money, or inclinations to do so. I...
  23. JimWagner

    To the bald

    Went to wearing them religiously (instead of sometimes) after going bald on top and then having a skin cancer removed from my face 12 years ago. Never go outside uncovered now.

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