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  1. nightandthecity

    "Kids these days" threads...

    I usually avoid these threads. I said my piece in the first one I came across ages ago. They do get a little repetitious. But anyway, for the record, your experience is pretty much my experience. The kids I meet are mostly polite and almost too well behaved. My own kids give me very little...
  2. nightandthecity

    youtube addictions and delights

    ha ha ha, that felt good didn't it! Makes you want to dance doesn't it....go on, get up off that chair, shake a leg......it won't hut you, honest... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTdfvbyyPTw&search=lindy%20hop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrTLbRe4vyU&mode=related&search=...
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    youtube addictions and delights

    YOURTUBE ADDICTION? Unload your soul here... I was addicted to the Fedora Lounge. I tried coming off by using http://www.redhotjazz.com/ but it wasn't long before someone introduced me to the hard stuff. Youtube. DAMN YOU YOUTUBE!! I haven't done a stroke of work for days. The cats are...
  4. nightandthecity

    What is your favorite unit?

  5. nightandthecity

    July 1st 1916 (THE SOMME)

    There was an excellent article by Max Hastings on the Somme in Saturday's Grauniad http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1810319,00.html
  7. nightandthecity

    WWII Espionage

    Yes, Foot's books are excellent... This website has a lot of info on the women of SOE. I found it when doing a Google search on Nancy Wake after re-reading her memoirs....... http://www.64-baker-street.org/main/index.html
  8. nightandthecity

    Just bought my first iron

    yep, I second the distilled water suggestion. Many years ago I nearly ruined a pair of 1930s chinos with a splurdge of crap that suddenly came out of my iron! Now it's distilled water. Distilled barley is quite good for getting through a pile of ironing too, but don't put it in the iron....
  9. nightandthecity

    Rolling suit up for travel?

    I have tried all sorts of rolling and folding, but I generally use - and thoroughly recommend using - a WW2 USAAF B-4 suitcase. You can buy similar cases today but if you look on ebay you'll soon find an original B-4. It's a bit hard to describe how it works but I'll try... It zips open...
  10. nightandthecity

    Favorite type of Coat

    can't find any good pix...but here's the macintosh and here's the trench
  11. nightandthecity

    Favorite type of Coat

    presuming we mean coats and not jackets (in our local dialect a "coat" can mean both) I'd plump for the 1930s-50s British Officers rubberized canvas "mackintosh" (sometimes called the riding mac) or the same period British Officer's poplin trench coat.
  13. nightandthecity

    What is this Jacket

    this certainly looks like good quality stuff.... anyone know the origin of the Nehru jacket? I'm guessing its a civilianization of the old-fashioned high-collared British military tunic?
  14. nightandthecity

    My New Jackets

    there are lots of ways, but I wouldn't recommend any of them myself. They all amount to taking time off the lifespan of your jacket and throwing money away. Wear it hard and often, as it was meant to be worn, and it will soon soften and evlop a nice patina.
  15. nightandthecity

    What is your favorite unit?

    385th Bomb Group, 8th AF. Not the first A2 I had, but the first one with a unit patch and which I researched. It turned out to have belonged to a 385th radio op. This kind of research was a lot harder back in the early 80s, before the internet, and it tended to pull you into the subject a lot...
  16. nightandthecity

    SIZING?

    measuring your head size is probably the easiest of the standard body measurements. But measuring the size of a hat is probably the hardest of the standard clothing measurements. I take it for granted that the majority of hand measured sizes on ebay are grossly inaccurate. As pilgrim says,at...
  17. nightandthecity

    What would you change?

    they control you anyway. You may as well try and getting something back from them.
  19. nightandthecity

    Suit-making decline?

    I'd second Marc's statement for the UK too. Increased foreign competition coincided with the wider availability of nasty artificial fabrics and led to a general lowering of standards (and indeed the end of many long established companies: the mill town where I live virtually collapsed in the...
  20. nightandthecity

    What would you change?

    I'd assassinate myself. So perish all tyrants.
  21. nightandthecity

    A-2 Modifications

    the AAF labels of course! With the first one I am presuming with hindsight that the collar was a modification - at the time I just took it for granted. By the time I had the other one in the 80s I was a collector and dealer and fairly knowledgeable, and it was definitely a field mod.
  22. nightandthecity

    Real HEROES of the Golden Age

    I have to admit I've been ignoring that particular thread. I have an instinctive aversion to all talk of "real men". I associate the term with aggresive knuckleheads . Anyway, I'll vote for Amelia too.
  23. nightandthecity

    A-2 Modifications

    'fraid not.This was back in the 60s, and at that stage I wasn't as interested in the fine details. I wrecked the jacket too. Hadn't a clue how to maintain it. Of course, they weren't so rare back then, even in Britain. What finally killed it was when I took it hitch hiking round the...

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