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  1. dr greg

    How deep is your style?

    flophouse What astounds me these days with "young people" and most of my contemporaries, is that they will pay 100 bux for a Billabong imitation Hawaiian shirt with Tiki designs made in China in some brutalised sweatshop, but if you offer them the real thing at a market for 30 bux in as new...
  2. dr greg

    Musicians?

    shobiz kid I was a professional performer at the age of 11, and these days play funk/soul covers around the bars and clubs, so I'm coming up for 40 years in the biz, I'm a bassplayer by trade even though I was originally a singer in musicals and opera. I sure do wear a fedora on stage, not...
  3. dr greg

    magnificent feat

    I found this pair of patent leather shoes that are a perfect fit in an op shop for 4 bux..beautiful condition as well, the photo don't do 'em justice. Now the question is, what do I wear them with or to, and how do I maintain them .
  4. dr greg

    How deep is your style?

    it all comes down to dignity I have a theory that in men's fashion at least, it is impossible to look dignified in contemporary " streetwear" once you reach your 40's and beyond..and that you cannot look anything but a fool in what you wore in the 70's, 80's etc.. The only thing to do is to go...
  5. dr greg

    weird wing

    I've just started watching this US show called the West Wing, which I gather is some sort of fantasyland for Democrat voters according to my countryman's FOX people. Everybody seems to talk while they walk to an extreme degree, and the camera crew must be seriously fit; anyway, in the recent few...
  7. dr greg

    shameless promotion

    I didn't bother mentioning this before as I am a member here primarily due to my interest in clothes and style, but negotiations with my proposed US publisher have stalled, so if there's anybody here interested in classic pulp-style 40's noir writing set in Australia, feel free to check to this...
  8. dr greg

    exotical tropical

    OK I'm no longer an Ebay fan and avoid them where possible, so I thought I'd test the waters (!!) here with this shirt. It's just a bit too small round the shoulders for me, as a lot of vintage stuff is, otherwise I wouldn't sell this for anything..I wear them, I don't put them on a wall...
  9. dr greg

    Vintage style t-shirts

    to a t Try a Bonds T-shirt, an Australian icon pretty much unchanged since 1938
  10. dr greg

    The Black Dahlia

    Duvall Dahlia The film you're thinking of is True Confessions which has references to the Dahlia murder, I haven't seen it in 20 years so it's hard to remember exactly. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083232/ LA Confidential is the 3rd book in what is known as Ellroy's LA QUARTET, White Jazz...
  11. dr greg

    eponymous really

    and when i die... BST wasn't it? It'll be the garage sale to end them all when they 'clean out my effects' While we're on the subject of the afterlife and Asian oddments, this 17th century(?) Tibetan bronze might look like a demon, but is in fact YAMANTAKA Defeater of Death, (with...
  13. dr greg

    eponymous really

    the cabinet I used to have a lot more of that stuff but I'm slowly culling the collection down to the best pieces so the house doesn't look like an antique shop. You can't take it with you.
  14. dr greg

    eponymous really

    shock the monkey it is a monkey skull, possibly from Borneo, very finely carved with swirling patterns that are difficult to capture in a photo, the ceramic tile is from Sri lanka, the image is known as 'the lovers' and I've seen the original at Anuradhapura's Isurumuniya temple...
  15. dr greg

    eponymous really

    the captain and ruby anybody who's a fan of S.Clay is alright by me, the demon, from the hills around Agung, in Bali, is obviously pretty excited, or barred up as we say round these parts, his appendage is actually a beater which you use to tap out rhythms on the body, which is hollow and meant...
  16. dr greg

    eponymous really

    bottle-o He'd probably enjoy my box full of surgical instruments as well...The Oxford cleaner was for 'shoes, gloves, handbags' and spats no doubt
  17. dr greg

    eponymous really

    For no particular reason, some of my men's grooming products and other knick knacks, note the moustache brush in the centre of the bottom shelf and the top of the case and a detail of the taxidermy box
  19. dr greg

    Old boys ties?

    tied up One would have to say that it would depend on whether you wanted some chap from the old school to recognise you or not...I wouldn't particularly. Same would apply to a regimental, I'd assume. But one should never wear a tie one is not entitled to: that sir, is the province of the bounder.
  20. dr greg

    No man is...

    a start I put this one up before in another thread but it's gone, so here's a classic rayon 50's Fijian probably made in japan before the local garment industry was properly established. this one is most likely early 60's local manufacture, note the broad design fairly typical of south seas...
  21. dr greg

    No man is...

    I just wondered if there are any other aficianados of "island" shirts hereabouts, by this I mean not only the classic Aloha shirts of the 40's-50's of which I have several, but those from the South Pacific. My taste verges on 'tiki' but I prefer the earlier styles.
  22. dr greg

    best bad guy

    mitchum Cape Fear: 1962 was the last cool year I once heard it said, who can forget it
  23. dr greg

    The GREATEST Menswear Store Ever?

    lost world I came in late here, but what beuatiful stuff, and to add to the comment on Gowings Sydney store, it's a cultural loss of great proprtions, I remember being in there for a haircut and shopping as a kid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowings

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