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  1. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I haven't watched it yet, but I will never stop defending CK, who, let's remember, co-created/co-produced/co-wrote (with solo writing credit on several of last season's best episodes) this extremely sensitive and observant female-positive show. Pamela is obviously tremendously talented, but to...
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    Hats on TV

    It's mainly because most things aired only ONCE and disappeared. There were very limited reruns before shows went into local strip syndication. Not to mention that there no specialty cable channels, VHS recordings, DVDs, streaming services, YouTube, etc., where you could watch stuff...
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    Show us your photography

    I don't usually post phone pics - hey, I'm still shooting b/w FILM - but this was on a stroll at Dennings Point State Park in Beacon, NY a few days ago. Besides the Hudson River views, there's a very cool ruin of an old paperclip factory that (incredibly) you can walk through:
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    Help dating a vintage A-2 style Schott Bros(?) jacket

    Schott 674(? not sure of the number), I had one like it in the 80s. As others have said, it was a popular model for years, until it was replaced by the 184 "four-way" model in the 90s. The back construction changed at that point from this horizontal seam at the shoulder blades to a G-1 style...
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    What Price Glory replica A-2 review

    The Raiders jacket is a very flattering and practical design. Mine's got the all-cotton lining, which does make it wearable in slightly warmer weather, along with the open sleeves and waist. And lambskin, for all its alleged faults, is a great "summer-weight" leather. (Yes, it is more...
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    What Price Glory replica A-2 review

    I'm not sure that that size chart, which appears in the catalog entry for the previous iteration of these jackets, applies to the 2018 build. The XXL numbers don't entirely match up with my own measurements. But if those are the correct sizes, it would appear that the XL would likely fit me...
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    What Price Glory replica A-2 review

    Edward... I'll have you know that in considering this purchase, I spent a long time trying to decide if I wanted to get this WPG A-2... or spend a hundred dollars more and get a Wested Raiders in goatskin! I seriously love my lambskin Raiders jacket, and have long wanted to get another in...
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    What Price Glory replica A-2 review

    Let me start with the summary I'd planned to end with: If you're looking for a bargain knockabout WWII-style A-2... or if you're looking for a budget A-2 to paint the back... or if you want a gift for family and friends who admire your expensive repro A-2s… and who won't even notice any...
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    Looking for hat information?

    That's what I use too, cheap craft felt from WalMart. White or natural/neutral colored, so there's no chance the dye color might bleed onto the hat if you really sweat your brains out. I've had six Akubras in my standard size, all started a half-size large, and all but one eventually shrank to...
  11. Doctor Strange

    Sears Home Kits and Building Plans

    You beat me to it again, Lizzie! I couldn't stop thinking about "One Week" from the start of this thread.
  13. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    One of the strengths of Twilight Zone was its 24-minute runtime. It kept things moving, forcing its stories to be concise and to the point. Of course, Netflix works on the completely opposite principle: everything they make is dragged out too long, sometimes MUCH too long. I'm about lose...
  14. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A dissenting view of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: I HATED that film. As an original fan of the sixties series who was looking forward to it, I thought it did everything - EVERYTHING - wrong. It did a terrible job of "honoring" the original series, especially failing at doing the central thing that...
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    Akubra Overload

    I only used Hats Direct for my very first Akubra purchase, a Federation III over 15 years ago. (I have nothing against them - I always recommend them - but they are indeed typically more expensive than others.) Most of my other Akburas have come from Everything Australian, with a good buying...
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    Scotch tape

    I've got three boxes of 7-inch tape reels (mostly Scotch #212), from the days when reel-to-reel tapes were my main collecting medium, which started in 1973, my freshman year in college. I haven't had a working deck in 20 years, and I'm sure these tapes would be in terrible, perhaps unplayable...
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    FDR's Japanese Concentration Camps (jacket content)

    Ansel Adams also did extensive documentation of the Manzanar camp (though there aren't necessarily any good jacket pictures): https://www.loc.gov/collections/ansel-adams-manzanar/ A shameful episode in American history, a reminder that for all our idealistic rhetoric, we make BIG mistakes.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Tully, a recent film with Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, and Ron Livingston. About a mega-exhausted mother of three (Theron reportedly gained 50 pounds for the role!) who gets a "night nanny" to assist her through her newborn's infancy. Weird flick with a third-act surprise I won't reveal...
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    I know, Another Schott Jacket ID thread(:

    Clearly it's one of their "four-way" naked cowhide jackets that replaced the classic Schott 674 (*) sometime in the late eighties or early nineties. It's got the half-belt back, and it once had a zip-out lining and a snap-on fur collar. A very popular model that's still made...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    True Detective. Eh. It's beautifully shot and acted, but halfway in, this season isn't doing it for me. The first season was flat-out brilliant. The second was a mess... But you know, for everything it did wrong, it was very ambitious, with several central characters (at least five) given a...
  22. Doctor Strange

    Scotch tape

    And of course, Monty Python leaned into this discredited trope brilliantly with their great Scottish poet... all of whose poems are requests for loans!
  23. Doctor Strange

    Guide for first fedora/hat

    The only felt hat I wear in the summer is an Akubra Cattleman... which has no lining and six ventilation holes. I use it for hiking and yard work, and find it's no hotter than my Stetson panama, which is my "around town" summer hat. Hey, when it's hot, you're gonna sweat a ton no matter what...
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