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    Skinny lapels - ties - collars?

    I've noticed that in the 30s and 1940s, double breasted suits with wide lapels, dress shirts with large collars, and larger ties were the norm. I'm curious as to around what year the skinny tie/lapel look came into popularity?
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    Allied

    It doesn't come out here until the 23rd. You should go see it - lend some financial support to Golden Era set films.
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    Allied

    Anyone else seeing this? It's a spy thriller/romance film starring Brad Pitt set in 1942 in Casablanca:
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    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    Thank you. Where would you suggest finding these lesser known sources (the gutter papers and other newspapers you mention)? Also, a couple of social questions: 1) Was there any generational gap (I mean in terms of the '60s 'generation gap') between the Edwardian Era generation (say someone born...
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    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    Ms. Maine, I wanted to ask: You are a veritable fountain of knowledge about a great many things from the 1910s through 1940s it seems. I should like to know as much as you do, and truly immerse myself in this period of time - the era of TR through the end of WWII - Could you recommend me any...
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    Is This Dorothy Lamour?

    This is my grandfather, pictured here in 1942 at a USO event at the Presidio of San Francisco. While the woman to his left is labelled as "Barbara", she is labelled on the back as "Baraba Lamour." I'm just curious if perhaps the name was misidentified and it is actually Dorothy Lamour? As she...
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    Vintage Photos of Leather Jackets

    Grandma (R.I.P) wearing a leather jacket, 1964:
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    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    Those directly comparing the air of social change and 'freedom' in the 20s to the '60s...or even the 30s to the 60s...I myself can't reconcile these two images as being from the same vintage:
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    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    Thank you for the info....They were also Serlings' fantasy too: Brevelle: If you could live in another time, another era, what period would that be? Serling: That's a good one. Well, if I had the means, I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of...
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    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    I just recently watched an episode of the Twilight Zone, called The Trouble with Templeton, about an aged theater star of the 1920s living an unhappy, unfulfilled life in 1960. Like quite a few characters who stay in the Twilight Stones' vignettes, this character longs to go back to a happier...
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    Golden Era movies set during 1880s/1890s?

    My girlfriend would be one. She loves the late 80s-early 90s.
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    Golden Era movies set during 1880s/1890s?

    I've been watching a lot of Twilight Zone lately. While it came at the tailend of the Golden Era, Rod Serling was a member of the GI Generation. Many episodes of the show depict, in an almost adoring fashion, the 1880s or 1890s; See the idyllic Willoughby or Homeville, Indiana in different...
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    Am I the only member who doesn't wear a hat?

    I've tried buying and wearing a few and they never seemed to suit me. I joined here because I casually love the 1920s-1970s in all respects, especially the 1950s-1970s; This is the closest forum to that era; I like old fashioned clothes, Clark Gable and Bogart movies, pre-1980s politics and...
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    Is vintage clothing dangerous? (specifically polyester/synthetic fibers)?

    Can you guys be a little less snarky? I'm not asking the question as a joke.
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    Is vintage clothing dangerous? (specifically polyester/synthetic fibers)?

    Can't tell if serious...?
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    Is vintage clothing dangerous? (specifically polyester/synthetic fibers)?

    More the courage internally to wear what I like regardless of what society says is "okay." Which has yes, been a long struggle.
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    Is vintage clothing dangerous? (specifically polyester/synthetic fibers)?

    I am considering buying a vintage 1970s era Polyester shirt. I've never bought any vintage clothes outside of a hat before. My question is, do any of these fabrics in shirts and such degrade over time, potentially releasing potentially harmful (short or long term healthwise) chemicals? For...
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    Disco: The last dying gasp of the Golden Era?

    An anecdote relating to that: My stepgrandfather, due to being partly deaf, didn't serve in WWII. He was born in 1917, he was the right age. When he was asked once what he did during the War, he said with a smile that he worked in the "Woman's Home Relief Program", "helping" the wives of GI's.
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    Early video games (Late 1940s-Late 1970s)

    Am curious on the thoughts of some of our patrons on early video/computer games. The earliest game was developed in 1948; the first games distributed in the academic community were released in the late 1950s and throughout the early 1960s; the first Arcade games came out in the mid 1960s, and by...
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Hey guys, I need help placing a date range to this photo. Could you help by identifying the makes/models of the two cars in the background?:

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