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    Best Shorpy photograph ever

    I know very little about uniforms, but isn't the badge on his hat a marine corp insignia?
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    People who found love on line (telegraph line)

    Great point. Telephone operators, unlike telegraph, were mostly women. I wonder how many women got married due to men they met while working. Mad Men has some scenes where the telephone gals listen in on the Italian guy.
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    Best Shorpy photograph ever

    African American motorcyclists!
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    How do you finance your vintage or vintage style clothing and hats?

    Do you ever get into houses that have vintage laying around. the home inspector I work with often gets stuff free. he just says, if you don't want that once you buy the house, let me know. I went into the house of a recently deceased hoarder. Sad how he lived in teh laast years. he was...
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    Gabardine is a weave not a fiber: The fabric and fiber content terminology thread

    I don't always notice a rayon smell, but I do know that distinct smell you get from 30s rayon crepe. I have had a few lounge jackets, and recently a dress i sold. very distinct smell I am convinced is from the fabric itself. Not offensive, slightly, but not too chemically, rather woody i...
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    Gabardine is a weave not a fiber: The fabric and fiber content terminology thread

    Merchant of Venice: "And spit upon my jewish gabardine" Shylock. http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=154974
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    Pencil Mustache

    Not me, I used to pluck and use mascara. On the other hand, I didn't need to always use mascara. I had a thick enough stash that when plucked, it looked quite nice as is. but for special nights, a little mascara never hurt.
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    "Time Traveler" in 1941: "modern" dress in old photos?

    Not so. Then why do they have the time police?
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    "Time Traveler" in 1941: "modern" dress in old photos?

    Whatever you do, don't get romantically involved with your grandmother, shoot your grandfather, and for gods sake, don't try to kill Adolph Hitler.
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    Spectator Shoes

    I got a redone pair at Nordstrom rack. I like em, but don't love em. White leather I hate, and the style is not my favorite. Kind of 20s 30s i guess. I might sell them and get the remix. those I love.
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    The very best image of yourself

    Just darling. IT certainly shows your better half:p
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    "Time Traveler" in 1941: "modern" dress in old photos?

    Looking closer, the lines on the M seem to be rough indicating a knit, and the neck of the sweater seems kind of oval across the shoulders, again, indicating vintage. But my guess is an LA hipster somehow got caught in a time warp with Forgotten Man, and they somehow switched time periods...
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    "Time Traveler" in 1941: "modern" dress in old photos?

    His top does not look so much like a printed shirt as a knit school sweater, with the contrasting colors being knit in. The jacket is unusual. If it were 50s I would guess it was a synthetic fake fur jacket, not too unusual for the time. being 1941, not so sure. But I don't see anything...
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    How do you finance your vintage or vintage style clothing and hats?

    If worse comes to worse, you can always eat your hat.
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    How do you finance your vintage or vintage style clothing and hats?

    I recently saw a lounger mention he financed the clothing with the money he got from playing music. When I lived in SF, before dealing full time, I would work to pay the bills, and only buy clothing with money that came from buying and selling vintage. I did this just to curb the habit and...
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    Show off the sports coats.

    Well, not cheap, but worth every penny. You already have the most expensive part, You might consider having slacks and a vest maybe made in the same fabric. This would be the time while he can still get the matching fabric.
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    Favorite Vintage stuff that just hangs around.

    I love reading old copies too. I would rather know what China, or Argentina or whatever, was like in the 50s than now.
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    People who found love on line (telegraph line)

    recently I was put in mind of a piece I heard on the radio with a woman who wrote a book on the telegraph in the 1800s. How it changed life for west coast business men, etc. But she also mentioned that the operators had a lot of down time, and would chat with each other. often they became...
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    Finding love on line (telegraph) vintage style.

    I see that the bartenders closed another thread on on line romance. Which I have no feelings about either way, but I was put in mind of a piece I heard on the radio with a woman who wrote a book on the telegraph in the 1800s. How it changed life for west coast business men, etc. But she...
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    Current fashion

    Fair enough. Interestingly, you mention something that wasalso part of my thoughts. My thinking is that while I don't know this guy, the fashion world has become much like the art world. It is more about being outrageous, creating things with little connection to aesthetically pleasing, and...

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