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  1. David Conwill

    What are you wearing today??

    I think it's a hoot! -Dave
  2. David Conwill

    From full beard to Imperial/Gunfighter moustache !

    Looks great! -Dave
  3. David Conwill

    Now Forming! the Campaign Hat Corps

    Thanks guys. I have been once again toying with the idea of getting into CAS, and a 1911-style campaign hat is all I can picture for a topper (along with a red or blue bib shirt, and tan or olive breeches). -Dave
  4. David Conwill

    Now Forming! the Campaign Hat Corps

    Can anyone tell me if the current production Stratton F-40 Campaign Hat is a fur felt, or wool? I have an Army surplus DI hat in wool, but I’m pretty unimpressed with the quality, and I’m wondering what might be a reasonably priced equivalent in fur. -Dave
  5. David Conwill

    So when did the boater sink from popular wear?

    Playing Mayor Shinn is possibly the most fun I've had with my clothes on. I did it once in high school, and I'd love to do it again. -Dave
  7. David Conwill

    The DIY Vintage Repair Before/After Thread

    I love DIY posts and would love to see more of them, but I think they probably best belong in the Display Case subforum. -Dave
  8. David Conwill

    So when did the boater sink from popular wear?

    They are supposed to be rigid. Where the heck are you guys running into all these barbershop quartets? I'd love to see one in person. -Dave
  9. David Conwill

    So when did the boater sink from popular wear?

    The novel was written by Sinclair Lewis (he of Main Street and Babbitt fame) about contemporary culture in the 1920s. I assume the film is set in the same period. In the 1967 film How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying the group executives from the World Wide Wicket Company are...
  10. David Conwill

    Is there something you really want to wear but are chicken?

    Agreed, and a boater. That's not a felt-hat jacket to my way of thinking. Blazers, particularly in colors other than blue, have outdoorsy, summertime, sporting connotations in my mind. -Dave
  11. David Conwill

    SPAM and the Second World War?

    Someone who couldn't afford steak and eggs. -Dave
  13. David Conwill

    SPAM and the Second World War?

    I think you mean Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. -Dave
  14. David Conwill

    The Filson Thread

    I think you'll be pleased. I've been planning to pick up the classic Stormy Kromer hat for a while, and happened to run into the rest of their line at a outdoors store up north last week. The quality seemed very good. I almost bought a shirt. Also, it was refreshing to run into something...
  15. David Conwill

    Thomas Edison

    The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village were once styled "The Edison Institute". They might still be, legally. -Dave
  16. David Conwill

    Golden-Era Hot-Rodding

    Good luck! -Dave
  17. David Conwill

    Cuffing of Work Pants

    Mr. Badger makes a good point. My understanding from guys who were there in the 1950s was that blue jeans in that era came in waist sizes only, and only one length with that waist size. Thus, tall guys might show several inches of sock, and short guys might display several inches of cuff...
  19. David Conwill

    Vintage professions you'd like to see come back.....

    Australia. ;) -Dave
  20. David Conwill

    Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison remains one of my heroes, along with Henry Ford. Neither man was perfect, but neither deserved the demonizing that modern historians have given them. Edison, in particular, deserves more credit for his methods than he is typically given today. He didn't just randomly stumble...
  21. David Conwill

    Golden-Era Hot-Rodding

    They seem mainly oriented toward foreign stuff and late models? Given the brief Daimler-Chrysler marriage, maybe a Mercedes swap would be appropriate! :) -Dave
  22. David Conwill

    SPAM and the Second World War?

    Tangentally related answer: According to my dad, my grandfather hated spam because it was virtually all they had to eat while he was in North Africa in 1943. So it was probably being shipped to the UK by that time. If it's any help, Lend-Lease became U.S. law March 11, 1941, and by April U.S...
  23. David Conwill

    Golden-Era Hot-Rodding

    Cool. Good luck. -Dave PS Next we need to talk period dress-up pieces for your 350 (a/k/a "making your 350 look like a 283"). ;)
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