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  1. Dirk Wainscotting

    Show off the sports coats.

    I rather like that J.Press coat.
  2. Dirk Wainscotting

    What do you use to shave?

    My experience is somewhat the same. I'm sure a straight razor works for some, but a double-edge is easier to manage and maintain. My older brother is a trad barber and I still get straight razor wet shaves from him when I visit, but it's a different story when someone else is doing it for you.
  3. Dirk Wainscotting

    Washing wool flannel

    It doesn't need to be wrung, it can be squeezed.
  4. Dirk Wainscotting

    Washing wool flannel

    Drying a wool shirt in a dryer is a mistake. A dryer shortens the life of shirts (of any type). It's best to lay it flat on a rack for drying and be patient. Wet wool, especially flannel, stretches under pressure so no hanging it up wet. When it's nearly dry an iron on wool setting can remove...
  5. Dirk Wainscotting

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    I have a 1940s (could be early 50s) mantlepiece clock which I found in a box outside waiting for the rubbish men to collect. Absolutely horrifying. I took this home and cleaned it and it has been telling the time accurately for about four months now. No batteries and no forgetting to wind it.
  7. Dirk Wainscotting

    Polo Shirt Over Shirt?

    My grandad was still wearing these horrid things in the 1990s (he died in 2011 aged 97). Some of them were velour and had the same polo-style collar and placket. Not a look I'd want to emulate.
  8. Dirk Wainscotting

    "Bridge of Spies" fedoragasm!

    Or his head is too big for his hat! Filled out a bit has old Tom.
  9. Dirk Wainscotting

    What Does It Mean To Dress CASUAL In The 1910s And The 1920s And The 1930s And The 1940s?

    I think it's fair to say that standard 'off duty' clothes for most men for quite 50-odd years was shirt and flannels/old trousers, probably topped off with a jacket if you weren't at home. However.... as tropicalbob indicated there are differences for region, country, class, age etc. In the 50s...
  10. Dirk Wainscotting

    What are you wearing today??

    Did I miss the stroller?
  11. Dirk Wainscotting

    Greatcoats

    The Afghanistan adventure was the tail-end of the USSR and I think deterioration of clothing quality (and supply), though probably worse there by then, had become evident in most of the western world too. Quite a few of the vintage British examples for officers - WWI, WWII etc - were not...
  13. Dirk Wainscotting

    Greatcoats

    I beg to differ. I have had an old Soviet coat and it was a marvellous piece, perhaps made for a higher rank. The cloth was very good and the construction too. I eventually swapped it for a heavy civilian overcoat. It's a myth that Soviet-made clothing was poor...there was and has been equal...
  14. Dirk Wainscotting

    How often do you dress vintage/vintage inspired?

    I really like the golden era look, I always have done (I was wearing a little tweed jacket when I started school in the late 70s) and I do wear elements of the style, probably half the time. However, there's no avoiding the issue of looking out of place and at least some of the time appearing...
  15. Dirk Wainscotting

    How often do you dress vintage/vintage inspired?

    Can people tell the difference between chinos from the '50s and chinos from last week? An Oxford cloth shirt and jumper could also be contemporary, so maybe that's why?
  16. Dirk Wainscotting

    What Are You Reading

    The Big Short by Matthew Lewis.
  17. Dirk Wainscotting

    How many suits do you own?

    Only the brown herringbone is vintage. The rest are merely 'classically styled'.
  19. Dirk Wainscotting

    1920s suits

    I'd wear those.
  20. Dirk Wainscotting

    1920s suits

    Are they not spats?
  21. Dirk Wainscotting

    1920s suits

    Chaplin was one of the 20th century's best dressed men. People forget it because his name is so associated with his 'Little Tramp' creation. His jacket in the last photo fits like a glove.
  22. Dirk Wainscotting

    Hollywood Jackets

    I didn't think much of these until I saw this one. It has more flair than 99% of the so-called 'casual' coats you see on the streets today. The thin gabardine ones are still not to my taste; they are one step away from a 70s safari suit.
  23. Dirk Wainscotting

    Formal Wear Primer

    The trousers are better than the coat. Standard construction for anything between late 1940s to the 60s. Daks top adjusters are fairly common for dinner suit trousers (and morning trousers); on German examples too. The jettings on the jacket hip pocket shown close up are uneven.

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