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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Whaddayacallit? Help needed to identify a cap style

    It's well made, of a light-weight wool. The sewing is very good, with close-spaced stitches and straight, even seams. The sweatband is 1-inch leather. The underside of the bill is dark green. While I would have liked a heavier-weight fabric, it is, after all, based on a cap worn in high summer...
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Whaddayacallit? Help needed to identify a cap style

    The Ideal Cap Co. French Seam Box Cap. Photo snapped just after a bicycle ride on Sunday (hence the unusual specs).
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Fashion in Britain - 1920s & 1930s

    I knew boys in my high school who, as 17-year olds, already had receding hair lines.
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Allen Edmonds' Broadstreet's return!

    I bought a pair last year. Several years earlier I bought a pair in black and white. Then they disappeared from the catalogue. The newer ones have a thinner sole than the old ones, as you say, but I think the older, heavier pair are better made. I was struck by your comment on the flat laces...
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Whaddayacallit? Help needed to identify a cap style

    I'm pulling the trigger on a gray french seam cap tomorrow from Ideal Cap. I'll report when I get my hands on it.
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Style question

    I wouldn't wear a cowboy hat with a business suit, unless I was from Texas (in which case I would probably be wearing cowboy boots, too). Likewise, if I were dressed like an 1960's C&W singer, I wouldn't wear a standard fedora. Ball caps only with casual clothes or athletic uniforms. I wear...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Whaddayacallit? Help needed to identify a cap style

    Yeah. I originally selected only the three on the left, but when I noticed the derby with the tilted brim, I had to expand the selection to the right, especially for this audience.
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Whaddayacallit? Help needed to identify a cap style

    Amen! I work in the Pentagon's suburb, and I see a lot of uniformed persons. I will be glad to see the last of that black beret. It's OK if you're French or Basque, but not on a US military uniform.
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Whaddayacallit? Help needed to identify a cap style

    Yes, Doug, the 19th Century baseball cap is the thing. It's hard to imagine that someone sat down one afternoon thinking, "This baseball thing is really taking off. I ought to invent a new style of cap for the players to wear!" I wonder where it originated? It looks like an adaptation of the...
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Whaddayacallit? Help needed to identify a cap style

    Similar, but well-worn, caps Thanks, all. "Painter's cap" is close, but the shape I had in mind has a taller crown, but like a painter's cap, has straight sides. The two fellows in the center have well-worn caps like what I had in mind. It dawned on me that I had this picture from my...
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Whaddayacallit? Help needed to identify a cap style

    I'm looking for a cap. The style is an old one. If I knew the name I could find a picture to illustrate, sorry, a description is the best I can do. Imagine a cap with a barrel-shaped crown and a brim like a baseball cap. Where a baseball cap's crown is composed of triangular panels with the...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Balmoral Boots

    How 'bout the eyelettes? I've always heard that "The eyelettes are the windows of the sole."
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Rolling the dice with a cut-rate suit

    Today I got a Groupon offer: Aspetto Tailors masterfully hand-stitch perfectly fitted suits from quality horsehair canvas and one of 300 fabrics, attracting a client base of politicians, celebrities, athletes, and business leaders. They can also complement individual body types and styles...
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Removing Mystery Stain from White Shirt. Any suggestions?

    In the US, "Vanish" is a brand of highly caustic toilet bowl cleaner. So, depending on which is sold where you live, look both ways before crossing the street.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Interesting Fabric and Peaked Lapels on this Waistcoat

    Why do I think that vest should be part of a Batman villain's wardrobe?
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Men's DRESS BOOTS to suit all budgets.

    Eyewitness news ... Being Sunday, and the weather cool and rainy, I had some time on my hands. I remembered that there is an Aldo shoe store in a shopping mall a few miles from my home, so I drove over to look at the shoes. They looked like $200 shoes. That is to say, they weren't what you'd...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Men's DRESS BOOTS to suit all budgets.

    How do you know? I've been buying shoes for a long time (my 59th birthday was last week). I can tell obviously cheap shoes when I see them, and heaven knows, I see hundreds of them every day in elevators, on subway trains, and as I walk around outside after lunch. But, the remark that these...
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    The Tie Game: Identify Your US State Out of These Regional Ties

    Number 4, Maryland Chesapeake Bay blue crabs.
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    It's 1900 and I'm alive and living in Downtown LA or San Francisco?

    That's the day before Sunday, right? At that point, Saturday was just like Friday, he went to work. The only day off your man would have is Sunday.
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    50's Khaki Pants Reproductions

    The old fashioned way ... An iron

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