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  1. Mid-fogey

    Here is my first conversion attempt

    Dude... ...awesome job. If you can cut down a cowboy hat like that you will never lack for good fedoras!
  2. Mid-fogey

    New Year's Resolutions, anyone??

    I resolve... ...to stop procrastinating. Oh.
  3. Mid-fogey

    College wardrobe

    Almost... ....right. Those are close to Citadel colors. They'll have to lighten the blue a bit. I do suppose some obscure schools like UK and Yale might use something similar.
  4. Mid-fogey

    A Hat for my Dad

    Outstanding... ...you are a great daughter.
  5. Mid-fogey

    I Am Legend ***Spoilers Warning***

    Saw it... ...liked it well enough. Thought it could have been better, but I thought Will Smith did pretty well for his part. I would have put Tom Hanks in though.
  7. Mid-fogey

    What are you doing.........

    Mrs. Mid-fogey ...and I will be in. Her birthday is New Year's day. We'll have a sleep in followed by celebration.
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    Detailed Photos of Open-Crown Adam Fedora

    Shrinkage... ...is possible. When one imagines a hat sitting year in and out in a hot attic in DC, where the temperatures could easily get north of 120, its not hard to believe the hats shrunk a bit. I recently rediscovered one of my old hats that spent at least the last 10 years in...
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    It's a boy!

    Congrats... ...I hope momma is doing well too. I have to say you looked pretty good in the first picture. When my daughter was born, my first pictures looked like a mile o' bad road.
  10. Mid-fogey

    Gray Undershirts?

    You could do... ...like I did as a young bachelor and be pretty casual on sorting laundry. I discovered my undershirts were gray before too long.;)
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    Fedora for three year old?

    I was in... ...Stark and Legum in Norfolk Va last week and they had several dress hats for little boys. If they don't have it on line, you could e-mail them and ask about the ones in the show room. They are sitting on the ledge up high to the right side of the hat counter.
  13. Mid-fogey

    McCartney's 3-Piece and the 2nd death of the 3-button

    You guys are... ...the experts on this, but it seems to me that three buttons have been continuously available for quite some time. I wasn't even much aware of two versus three button suit coats when I got out of the AF in 1984. As I bought one of my first load of work suits, I bought a...
  14. Mid-fogey

    New test Navy Uniforms are WWII Throwbacks

    Well... ...that's the theory the brass uses every few years when they try to redesign the uniforms. Never works. The troops like to wear what they fight in.
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    Hand washing suits.

    Once the... ...garment is cleaned, rinsed, and line dried, would it be helpful to use a hand steamer to do the initial reshaping of the garment before pressing? Either way, do you start by pressing the garment inside out with a pressing cloth and then finish by pressing the outside, also...
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    New test Navy Uniforms are WWII Throwbacks

    I don't know... ...that it has much to do with the volunteer military as it does a general societal deemphasis on on neat dressing. This has moved into the military. My personal (and exceedingly widespread and longterm) experience is that military people are nearly universal in their...
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    Smoking and the Golden Era

    Boy I... ...remember everyone smoking everywhere when I was a kid. When my folks had parties they had open boxes out with cigarettes for guests. We had all sorts of cool sterling cigarette lighters that were part function and part art (where did those things get to?). As part of my mother's...
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    The Merry Christmas and did you get anything outstanding thread!

    As usual... ...my favorite was one of the smallest items. I got a Simpson travel shaving brush. It's a tiny little thing that almost looks like a toy, but is amazingly effective.
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    The (mis)adventures of an amateur alterationist

    Most Impressive... ...especially considering the work is done by hand. Living as we do near Colonial Williamsburg, you see a bit more hand produced work here, albeit for historical reasons. A few months ago there was an article on one of the tailors in the historic area of Williamsburg and...
  21. Mid-fogey

    For when the weather heats up

    On of the fellas... ...at a church we used to go to wore a full up Bermuda suit. Pants were appropriately long as shorts, and cuffed. I seem to remember it being glen plaid. Doesn't travel well out of Bermuda. That guy, with his abbreviated shorts looks makes the outfit look not quite...
  22. Mid-fogey

    What do you use to shave?

    My Experience... ...is you can't take a DE on an airplane either.
  23. Mid-fogey

    Curtains for the Necktie?

    It's worth remembering... ...that the overwhelming majority of people didn't wear ties to work in the 1930s, being blue collar workers. The onset of the industrial revolution created a number of jobs where ties could be considered a safety risk. In the 1930s there was a fair quantity of...

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