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  1. dr greg

    Trading post

    I've got a 36R Cooper A2 in excellent condition, what I don't have is a decent fedora to go with my d/b blue pinstriped suit. All my good hats are brown or green, and that just won't do. Anybody got a top-line 71/8, or 57cm grey or blue Stetson or Dobbs or whatever that we could come to some...
  2. dr greg

    Foyles War and flight jackets

    agatha I'm a sucker for the english rose look as well, as my first wife would testify, anyway, I was watching the BBC's Miss Marple episode "4.50 to Paddington" last night , and one American character had a fab A2 that looked so real it might have been so. The costume dept on that series were...
  3. dr greg

    get em out

    it is cricket The poms, as we call the english, have a rich history of being regularly beaten at the games they invented: soccer cricket tennis etc etc
  4. dr greg

    get em out

    mothman I thought all moths were dangerous to clothes, I wasn't aware there were specific varieties that liked cotton or wool etc. Maybe I panicked but some of those shirts are worth 100's each, so I sprang into action, having a good airing won't hurt them anyway.
  5. dr greg

    get em out

    nice idea But I don't have one, I'm a fresh food guy. the sunlight will have to do it or maybe iron them all carefully:mad: Thanks for the verandah comment, it surrounds the house on three sides and is 10 foot wide, I need it to take in the vista to the NW as I sip me G&T in a squatter's chair...
  7. dr greg

    get em out

    protection As the camphor laurel tree, which is native to China and the source of all the mothballs in the world, is a pest weed in plague proportions on my own property and the entire district, I have no shortage of the stuff and the cupboard is full of fresh chips as well as plenty of...
  8. dr greg

    get em out

    true story: I opened my 'high-end" aloha shirt cupboard last night, and to my shock and horror, a bloody great moth flew out,obviously not worried by the camphor protection system I have in there...I can't spray chemicals on each one for various obvious reasons, and inspecting each shirt for...
  9. dr greg

    Favorite WWII movies

    LRDG I like the two films about the LRDG in Nth Africa, Sea of Sand, and the fabulous PLay Dirty with Michael Caine.
  10. dr greg

    Oops! Did that just come out of my mouth?!

    procedural One would dissolve the crushed shells of beetles in methylated spirits, and then apply with a soft brush in thin layers; how this metaphorically translates to a good belting is etymologically unclear.
  11. dr greg

    aloha there??

    date Pretty sure it's 50's or early 60's going by fabric and stitching, it's a direct take on Island Feast by Savage so that pretty much rules out the 40's as the designs didn't appear until 1948, so I doubt if they would have made their way to cheap-end shirts that quickly.
  13. dr greg

    aloha there??

    Does anybody here know of this shirt brand "HG,American Styled"? This is a Eugene Savage design, but rather cheaply done, and I wonder if it's legit. I found this in the outback in a one-pub orange growing town called Mundubbera, which is a LONG way from the beach, or anything resembling it.I...
  14. dr greg

    What are you wearing today??

    live As I'm playing tonight at a local beach resort my stage gear will be: 501's, (NOT FADED) Black Orchid aloha shirt and RM Williams boots, with possibly a Stetson stingy to top it off.
  15. dr greg

    The Ultimate Hat Test(imonial)!

    testing times I had an Akubra featherweight squatter once and I walked for 4 hours in heavy rain, not a drop came through, even though there was at least a cupful sitting in the crown at all times
  16. dr greg

    Read Hitler's Lips

    demagogo Politics aside, you have to admit that for sheer performance value as an orator, they don't make 'em like Adolf anymore. Even Mussolini is fun to watch as a poser. Churchill had great speeches as well but the well-known ones were delivered on radio. Even Huey Long had it back then. For...
  17. dr greg

    What the heck does "soiled" mean?

    hands off You'll see it on the front of the crown from taking your hat on and off with sweaty or dirty hands.
  19. dr greg

    H?ºckel Hats

    me 2 The green hat in my recent thread "stingeee" is a Huckel
  20. dr greg

    The Corps

    the look Going by the haircuts on the guys getting off the bus in one picture (before hitting the barber's chair), it is definitely mid 60's, but there's no other info.
  21. dr greg

    Road to Perdition suit maker

    apocrypha I heard that they opened up some old mill in the NE of the US and actually had the suit material woven on vintage looms to get that extra touch.
  22. dr greg

    The Corps

    I bought an old box of books and inside amongst a lot of Australian military stuff was a USMC yearbook from Parris Island, no date but looks Vietnam era, for platoon 260. I know there are some USMC members (or ex) in the FL, anybody know any more about this thing.
  23. dr greg

    The Return of the Milkman!

    memories My first job was as a milkman, every friday night up at midnight, rain, winter whatever, and work until about 8. I did it from age 12 til I left school at 15. Being able to hold three pint bottles in the fingers of each hand was the standard to be achieved. Try it sometime running...

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