Basically, the pants were made to be worn exceptionally high (like above the belly button). The first time I wore a pair of these pants, I happened to walk past a mirror, and I stopped dead in my tracks and said: "That's it! That's the element I was missing! High-waisted pants make it!" I...
Thanks for the kind words.
Yeah, that suit's a beauty, all right. It's mid-weight and could be worn in summer without much problem. I also have a summerweight, paper-thin dark brown double-breasted from 1939, as well as a black-and-white houndstooth from the same year, also double breasted...
Just got this suit:
that one's a little blurry. here's one with my Stetson Twenty:
I bought two other suits a few weeks ago (both late 30s double-breasted suits). This one was made in 1948. That's pushing it a little, but it was cheapish and I love the color. I just happened to...
Well, to be honest, the hat could be made out of duck feathers and I'd still probably buy it - I buy pretty much anything on eBay that's from the Ambassador. I just think it would be supremely cool if it turned out to be a really nice hat as well. And it's my size!
I am going to email the...
Sorry - been a tad busy (still am).
I'm recording some folks from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and they're staying with me right now. It's been a pretty hectic week at the ol' studio, trying to get a full-length album done in a week.
It's not often, when one has multiple hobbies, that they cross into one another. but stranger things have happened. Examine, if you will:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8109325597&ssPageName=STRK:MEBI:IT
For those not in the know, the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles...
Hey Canadave!
Check it out:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14065&item=8111123828&rd=1
23" seems like a huge circumfrence to me, and it says below that it's marked a size 9!!! I'm a 7...and my Borsalinos are usually 5 or 5 1/2.
Sounds like this might work out...
The price you pay: you walk around with a string connecting your hat to your body.
I tried it once. Not only did it look a little...um, dorky, but everyone asked me why my hat was tehered to my body.
I like the way they look on a hat, just not in use.
That's pretty much the exact same encounter I had with her, only mine was a vintage Dobbs, but it was similarly manhandled. I was not permitted to handle (or even touch) her Borsalinos. After a couple of minutes, my wife and I were basically asked to leave if I weren't buying anything.
I bid heavily on that hat. (Not heavily enough, unfortunately...)
Glad it went to a great home. That's a real treasure you've got there. Congratulations! And great work as always, Art.
Darek,
You have yourself a beautiful hat there. Congratulations!!!
And as far as that other hat goes...I almost bid on it myself, believe it or not (well, I have a Fedora block, and a man needs a guinea pig once in a while...!).
Hey, I met Mrs. Dewson once, come to think of it.
...it was a pretty short meeting, when she got a whiff of the fact that I might not walk out of there having spent a couple of hundred bucks on a modern-day Dobbs.
I saw that picture of Graham at OPTIMA and wondered why it made its way in there...it's cool he was there, and everything...but I wasn't too sure what it related to in the book. plus, if I recall right, it's just sort of shoved in there, the last photo in the book, sort of a, "oh, and here's...
That Stetson 100 case is just what I was talking about (I've bid on several, but always get outbid). I have a case now, so I don't really look for 'em anymore. But those Stetson 100 cases are nice.
Imahomer, believe it or not, I don't care too much if my vintage stuff gets banged up. It...
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