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  1. Nick D

    What are you wearing today??

    Thank you! Effingham, the 'tache gets a lot of comments and such, especially now that a new year is starting.
  2. Nick D

    Trying to find a collar like this:

    Sorry, I always get the Kennedys confused ;)
  3. Nick D

    Trying to find a collar like this:

    You can wear single cuffs with lounge suits. Less common, perhaps, but Jack Kennedy certainly did.
  4. Nick D

    Show us your suits

    With pocket placement on the jacket and the cut of the skirt, I think it couldn't have been made from a men's suit. The jacket was man-tailored, though, which would explain it.
  5. Nick D

    Show us your suits

    My wife had a 1940's Swiss skirt suit with the normal women's right over left buttoning, but the breast pocket was on the left. I suppose womenswear has more leeway in terms of such details.
  7. Nick D

    Finally Found My Own "Holy Grail" Accessory

    Those are the toggle type. Marc's has a loop and buckle that passes through the buttonhole.
  8. Nick D

    Finally Found My Own "Holy Grail" Accessory

    I wear a vintage one with a toggle frequently. It hasn't done anything untoward to the buttonhole.
  9. Nick D

    Suit pants fit for larger guys?

    No trousers should sit below the belly. It's much more flattering for the trousers to sit at the natural waist, and that applies to all men no matter their shape.
  10. Nick D

    What are you wearing today??

    Today: I just finished the jacket from a vintage Advance pattern. Trousers from an EvaDress pattern, bowtie from a homemade pattern. The hat, shirt, and collar are vintage.
  11. Nick D

    What are you wearing today??

    Today was the start of classes. I'm a seminar tutor again this term, today was the first lecture. Gray '58 double breasted suit Black Loake half brogues Striped '40s shirt Long white collar School tie Gray '40s Lee fedora Just as last year, my students will never see me without a tie.
  13. Nick D

    What about the European catalogues?

    Mario has posted some good German ones. There are also old Burton catalogues avaliable online from the Leeds city museum, they were posted a few years ago and may be difficult to find. *Edited to add:*...
  14. Nick D

    Wearing trilbies etc. too far back on the head?

    Jimmy Stewart wore a fedora that far back frequently. I think the thing here is that the hat is too small to begin with, which throws everything off. A while ago I saw a teen-aged kid with a 'fashionable' hat like that tipped so far to one side it was more like sideways, it even covered his...
  15. Nick D

    Dunn & Co.

    I have two Dunn hats, a bowler and a homburg, both from the late '40s to early '50s. Very fine hats.
  16. Nick D

    The Moustache

    Every 'tache is different, and if it works for you, that's grand. Clubman just seems to work less well for more people than other waxes.
  17. Nick D

    Show us your suits

    It's very British, actually. It's also from a military tailor in Mayfair, a demob suit maybe? (I wonder if zips were used on some demob suits to speed production). All my other vintage British suits are button fly, which I prefer, though I have some odd trousers with zip flys.
  19. Nick D

    Show us your suits

    I have a British suit dated 1946 with a zip fly. Zippers were around before the '30s, but that seems to be when they started gaining ground.
  20. Nick D

    10 detachable shirt collars for sale, all size 15 1/2

    I'm selling off all my size 15 1/2 shirt collars and replacing them with size 15. I have 10 up right now, including some stiff-starched, soft, and later period non-starch collars. The two Van Heusen collars are marked 15, but that equates to 15 1/2 in other collars. The link to all the...
  21. Nick D

    The Moustache

    W-D Forties, what did your husband use for his DIY? I've been thinking about natural beeswax and petroleum jelly with a little brown food colouring to darken it, but I know there are a lot of possible ingredients (such as some on the HBC site).
  22. Nick D

    The Moustache

    Although all moustaches are different, I would recommend against Clubman. Firehouse, Hndlebars, and Oregon Wild Hair are all US-based wax brands with good reputations, I started out using Firehouse. Now I use a UK wax called Bounder, which is very stiff and has a great scent but doesn't hold...
  23. Nick D

    Show us what you've made!

    Here's another women's piece I recently finished, the jacket from an EvaDress 1933 ensemble pattern: I've got a review and more info at Pattern Review: http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&reviewnum=66284

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