notkraut
The one on the left has the inscription TE KAAHU MATAARA, which sounds Polynesian to me, maybe a samoan or maori unit but google comes up with nothing, and the eagle seems an odd juxtaposition.
garrison duty
I like my 1952 garrison cap for working on things like my tractor where I have to crawl around under oily bits and pieces, they also go well with 3/4 leather coats for that International Brigades look.I used to have a fabulous forage cap as well, but being made of wool. it was too...
the wooden idol
Keanu's best work had to be in Bill&Ted, but even that doesn't sink as low as Antonio Banderas, I avoid anything with his name on it as a matter of course. But I'm a male.
eddie
That's fascinating, one of the great war films is ATTACK with him and Jack Palance, where Eddie plays a coward. That would have taken some doing, but then again he probably had seen some in action and knew what he was talking abouit.
tough enough
Back in the 70’s I used to work with a guy who was Polish, one day in the middle of the English winter I said how cold it was… he laughed and said, “you know what is cold, when the axe blade hits the tree and shatters: sending a sliver through the eye of the man beside you…he falls...
JR
Sorry. the old hotel was in Dallas, had been restored, and the great part was that the shoeshine guy at the station was their hustler if that's not too strong a word, which I thought was cute, that's one thing you DO NOT see in this country, is shoeshiners. It was the 80's as I said and I...
Foat Wuth
What was the name of the retro rooftop bar/music venue there, I went there in the 80's to check it out but the whole town was shut down for MLK's birthday so I ended up catching the Neville Bros in some bar in Dallas..stayed at a real old hotel there too, near the station, forgotten...
Dress watch
My other watch is a SEIKO 5, good for any situation that may involve undue travails, but this Girard Perregaux is my fave..a good watch for its day
song lines
I remember many years ago seeing an episode of the 3 stooges that was sung, absolutely no spoken dialogue. I wondered if that was a technical factor because apparently early films weren't able to coordinate the spoken word accurately enough, which put this one pretty early in both...
Some of the re-enactment chaps might find this site interesting, it's not just Australian stuff.
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pages-top-level/master-index.htm
the cost of authenticity
Another problem with top shelf old aloha shirts is when to wear them, you can't put them on if you're going where
a: red wine will be swilled and spilled
b: drunken chainsmoking clowns abound
c: fights are frequent
D: all of the above
which sort of eliminates most...
a bit fruity but fun
I like Willy Pogany's patterns and illuminations (?) as well as his general figures.
http://www.americanartarchives.com/pogany,w.htm
As an experienced vintage clothes seeker, I was called upon to give advice to a neophyte recently, and advised them that anything that had the words:classic, vintage, authentic, or original, on the label was most unlikely to be any of the above. Some of the fake retro labels are laughable...
tut
I often wonder who'll appreciate my stuff when I go to the great garage sale in the sky, will vintage clothes be of interest to anybody 30 yeras hence
aloha
The prices on feebay are definitely exponential in relation to sizes, reflecting the general scarcity of bigger people back in the old days, which has been canvassed on other threads. I'd love to have thousands to spend on shirts but unfortunately Jack Nicholson was born already so I...
the bird
the paradise found jungle bird in red is of course the famous Magnum PI shirt and one is in the smithsonian i believe, I've got one in blue, which doesn't count, but a nice traditional style anyway for the 80's
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