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Lightweight Borsalino just arrived.
Happy Birthday WEEGEE cousin of Squeegee You are quite welcome. Sounds like a great week! I hope you like my, I mean, your new hat :rage: ;) -
Lightweight Borsalino just arrived.
Well, the hat will be winging its way to the new owner later today. The more important questions - when? what? are there more out there? Seller thought this was a 1950s hat. It comes from an estate (many other hats were sold) from a well know jurist here in Mass. Going back to our... -
Lightweight Borsalino just arrived.
I just realized something that may drive me to drink ... more ;) Now that I have had this hat in my hands, and know that they are out there, I am going to spend an awful lot of time searching for another... -
Lightweight Borsalino just arrived.
The hat is a 7 3/8 US. 59cm or 23 1/4 inches. Quite a difference from 22" [huh] -
Borsalino Mascotta and 11 of its friends
That really is a great find! Now - if only we less fotrunate souls could borrow a bit of your mojo! -
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Lightweight Borsalino just arrived.
My recent find - a lightweight Borsalino with diamond pattern vent holes arrived today. The seller was right, it looks like it was rarely if ever worn with a pristine sweatband, but does show some moth bites, under the brim and above the bow as mentioned in the add. The felt is wonderful, thin... -
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"New" raccoon coat
I'm jealous! I have been looking for a reasonable priced fur coat, preferably somethin like sheared beaver (mink, etc.) for the short thin gentleman. But the rare few even close to my size are very expensive. When the temps dip down in the single digits all I can think of are the days as a...- vonwotan
- Post #5
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Has custom made lost status?
My apologies. All of my BB experinece was at 44th St. in Manhattan and in my NYcentric world view only just realized that you would not have known their head tailor in NYC. I heard from a friend recently that he may have come out of retirement to help during their recent MTM promotions. -
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Has custom made lost status?
I guess that explains it. After reading the comments I went back in to the closets and turned out the pockets on two suits, each dated 1990. They fit too well to be MTM. Do you happen to remember the head tailor's name, or know what became of him? A rather slender older Italian gentleman. I... -
Your favorite Hot Dog Stand?
I don't eat hot dogs very often, but Papaya King in New York, or a good ol' dirty water dog from a street vendor while walking to the entrance of Central Park.- vonwotan
- Post #18
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's your favorite martini?
Dr. Smith eh, I assume the drink was green and still shaking when in the glass?- vonwotan
- Post #58
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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What Are You Reading
Couldn't agree more. The Club Dumas and The Flanders Panel are both terrific.- vonwotan
- Post #763
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What's your favorite martini?
Aren't they? I wish I could claim credit.- vonwotan
- Post #55
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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What's your favorite martini?
Time to stir the pot or, for some, shake Here are several gin cocktail recipes that I have jotted down at my bar. We have been experimenting quite a lot recently and have many Martini purists among us. There are a few that might be predecessors to today’s cocktails with the –tini suffix...- vonwotan
- Post #53
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Your signature cocktail.
Pisco is definitely an interesting brandy or marc (?) made in the wine making regions of Chile. I tasted some last year at a wine tasting featuring Chilean wines. Not bad at all.- vonwotan
- Post #91
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Has custom made lost status?
Interesting - that makes me wonder. Were the later suits all purely MTM? If that is the case, they must have found an odd sized pattern for me. My navy suit, while rather boring style wise, fits nearly as well as several bespoke suits. Then again, at the time, I relied quite heavily on... -
Has custom made lost status?
Will - the Brooks Brothers Custom shop (although primarily sewn in Queens) was still around even after M&S took them over but sadly, by then, it was much diminished and the crew of italian tailors from 44th street left. The last suit I had made there was in 1990 - perhaps more a hybrid of MTM... -
1927 Hat Article
Mark, I gave it a shot but the text is out of focus when I enlarge the picture. Did you scan this in? Or do you receive it as an image file?
