Cutters and lighters
The very best cutter I have ever owned is from Zikar. The quality is head and shoulders above any other I have used, regardless of the price. They cut cleanly every time even after years of use. Many expensive cutters I have used are more on the line of fashion accessories...
Traditional Jewish men's hatson Wikipedia
Scroll down to the "Headgear" section for a series of links to photos and articles on hat types worn by traditional Jewish men.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasid
John Reintiz Homburg sweatband
Here is a photo of the sweatband. It is 1 7/8" wide. There is a dark brown piece stitched at the bottom. On the back of the sweatband it extends about a 3/8" and is sewn so that it makes a kind of channel through which runs what appears to be a monofilament...
New old homburg
Thank you. I will post the "after" pics when I've got it redone. I am hoping that the others will chime in with dating and other identification information. Hey! Brad Bowers! Are you listening?
First eBay old hat, oops! I meant "vintage"
Here's a Homburg I won this week on eBay.
The color is, oh, let's call it "fawn". It's browner than these pictures,
This label was under the sweatband and liner. It reads thus ...
To the upper right of the label, written by hand is "1529"...
"Ask me no questions and ..."
While I am prepared to be surprised, I don't imagine that if I ask Hats Plus if their Beaver brand Homburg is a good hat that I'm going to get anything but an enthusiastic "Yes!"
"Puffery" is a long-honored tradition in sales and a prudent man would not rely on a...
I'm look around for a new Homburg. I'm bidding on one on eBay that will require some restoration effort if I get it, and I've just run across what appears to be a very reasonably-priced Beaver brand Homburg at Hats Plus for $85.00!
Do any of you have Beaver brand hats who can give me the...
Right here in River City. Trouble with a capital "T"
Mothers of River City!
Heed the warning before it's too late!
Watch for the tell-tale sign of corruption!
The moment your son leaves the house,
Does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee?
Small bills for panhandlers
I use both. I keep small bills (ones and fives) in the money clip in my left pocket. When I worked in downtown DC (Washington) I would walk to my office through a neighborhood that was home to to homeless shelter. I was often importuned by destitute men who would...
Leather soles and wet or icy weather; anyone ever heard of overshoes?!
I have a closet full of AllenEdmonds leather soled shoes I'd rather not see destroyed by water. When it's raining or wet, I wear rubber overshoes from home to work. When I get to my office, I remove them. I also keep a...
Mysterious straps
I have a trench coat which I bought at a discount store perhaps three or four years ago. The detail of it's construction is extraordinary for a coat I paid less than $100 for. I suppose it was remaindered, but it has straps like the ones Paddy described. There are two straps...
The double standard is real and perennial.
Can it really be true that you don't understand the double standard, or is it that you don't approve of some of the implications of the double standard and say that you don't understand it as a rhetorical gambit?
Men and women are biologically...
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