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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Proper Black shoes for a Wedding

    Wing tips are somewhere below "formal". You wouldn't wear them with a tuxedo, for instance. I wouldn't get too exercised over it. As the father of the groom, you won't be getting the attention that your son, future-daughter-in-law, or her mother will be receiving. If you wanted something a...
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Vintage SHORTS!

    Vintage Shorts Shots, Not for the Weak! Here are two really vintage shorts photos. The guy on the beach is my father, serving in the USAAF in Hawaii in WWII. This is me, roughly in 1958. I remember being stung by a bee on the back of the leg, which put an end to wearing shorts.
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Did the US Army have their own leather jackets?

    At the time, the Air Force WAS the Army, the United States Army Air Force. My father was drafted in 1943 and found his way into the USAAF as a munitions specialist. That is to say, he drove the trucks loaded with bombs from their storage areas to the air fields to be loaded into bombers.
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Period Films and Inaccuraces

    One of my favorite movies is the 1975 version of "Farewell, My Lovely", an adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel starring Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, and John Ireland. In the opening scene, Marlowe is at a "dime-a-dance" joint looking for a runaway teen girl. The singer fronting the...
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Socks got to match the tie!

    I think I have heard it somewhere. When I was an adolescent, I got a dresser-top tray for holding cuff links and tie bars and such, and I recall that it had a stand-up chart suggesting color schemes for trousers, socks, and ties. It is a foundation of logic that if you can produce a single case...
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Pre 1940s dress hats

    From the 1933 movie "42nd Street" Here's a screen capture from the 1933 movie 42nd Street. Just so we can all eat our hearts out.
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    missing my HH jacket

    Yes, indeed! A tip of that hat to Art. I asked him to make a hat like the one worn by William Powell in "The Kennel Murder Case". It's pretty darned close.
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Do any of you guys follow any type of hat etiquette?

    I'd say that if that statement were true, there would be no Fedora Lounge. A hat is a fashion statement AND a piece of functional attire. If that were not true, then teenagers (and immature adults) would no go around wearing backwards or sideways ball caps. If a hat were first and foremost a...
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Do any of you guys follow any type of hat etiquette?

    So what, exactly, is inside? Is it any place with a roof overhead? Take these examples, and tell me which you think of as being "inside": - A subway station ("tube" or "underground" for some readers)? - The lobby of a large office building? - An elevator in an office building? - A...
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    missing my HH jacket

    de nada
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    missing my HH jacket

    I don't know if it makes a difference in the hide, but a steer USED to be a bull. When I was a boy I watched my grandfather, uncle, and uncle's friend wrestle a young bull to the floor of my grandfather's barn and using a tool that looked like pliers stretch a thick rubber band around the poor...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Cowboy hats losing their cool?

    "I'm and old cow hand From the Rio Grande ..." Johnny Mercer (that cow poke from Savannah, Georgia) wrote this for Bing Crosby to sing in a movie in 1936. The first verse is ... "I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande But my legs ain't bowed and my cheeks ain't tan I'm a cowboy who never saw a...
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Balmoral Boots

    Those are Derby, not Balmoral, as I understand the definition.
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Canadian Coats, 1920-1921

    I never had a pet beaver who would come when I called and wag his tail.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    BRACES (SUSPENDERS)

    I generally buy them through Amazon.com. Broadly speaking, unless you are the size of an NBA center or have a waist size of 60 inches, the slide adjusters on the suspenders will accommodate.
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Panama Hat Question

    Check with Fedora Lounge habitue, Panama Bob. He's done custom work for me. Good work, good price.
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    What time period would you live in, and where, if you had to for one year?

    I've lived in all of the three latter periods. I wouldn't trade today for any of them! When I was a kid in the early 1960's, I dream of things like what my iPhone turned out to be. And no Internet! Forget that!
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Stuff you learn about your ancestors

    My mother died recently and I found a cache of photos and documents in her apartment. This picture includes my father's grandfather. He emigrated from Hesse Darmstadt in the fall of 1859. I found a ship's passenger manifest through Ancestry.com listing "Pet Knell" on a three-masted bark sailing...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Travel in the future

    The trans-continental railroad (that's in the US) was built by private capital. I will grant that the right-of-way used by the private railroad firms was provided by the US federal government, and that the railroad would not have been built without that aid. But the railroad itself was built and...
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Hospital etiquette (and general hat etiquette)

    I've never been in the military, but I work in the the Pentagon's suburb. The men in uniform whip of their hats the second they enter any building. From my viewpoint, that's going too far for a civilian. My rule of thumb is not to take off my hat when in a public place. By my reckoning, a public...
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