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    Those heavy duty bullet stopping woolley overcoats of yesteryear!! (pics)

    Right. A bullet has enough kinetic energy to move a body under ideal conditions, but in practice this energy is absorbed by the body being shot. No. If the bullet is completely stoped by the body, the whole of the kinetic energy of the bullet is transferred to the body, causing maximum...
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    Spats!

    They went out of style when the Duke, then Prince of Wales, showed up at Ascot without them. After the races, many pairs were found abandoned on the lawn.
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    What Is A "Dinner Jacket?"

    house jacket=smoking jacket They are the same thing. House jacket is a name invented by Esquire in the 30's, maybe because smoking jacket sounded too victorian and outdated. They wanted to modernise the concept, so they called it a house jacket.
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    The Herbert Johnson Poet

    It's well known as the Indy hat, but its story goes beyond just Indy. I think everybody knows the story of how Ford and Spielberg walked into the HJ shop in London to get a hat for the character, and how the staff at HJ recomended the Poet, because it was their oldest hat model still in...
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    Those heavy duty bullet stopping woolley overcoats of yesteryear!! (pics)

    That's right, the kinetic energy of a 20 grammes bullet traveling at 278 m/s would move a perfectly rigid 80 kg body 1m on a frictionless surface. The human body is different, because altgough a bullet is stopped by the body, and the whole of the bullet's kinetic energy is transferred to the...
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    Those heavy duty bullet stopping woolley overcoats of yesteryear!! (pics)

    The kinetic energy of a bullet is given by (mv2)/2, where m is the mass of the bullet, and v is the velocity. The energy to move an 80 kg body 1 m is given by Fd, where F is the weight in Newtons and d is the distance in meters. Assuming a bullet travelling at the speed of sound, about...
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    What Is A "Dinner Jacket?"

    The original purpose of the smoking jacket in Victorian times was for smoking, but that has changed to become a jacket worn at home, alone or when receiving guests. Flusser shows Cecil Beaton wearing a smoking jacket with slippers outside, but Beaton was an original; there's a picture of him...
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    Dress coats

    Overcoat. The use of "dress" is now extended to normal everyday attire, i. e. suits, shirts, shoes, socks, gloves, in fact everything that is not used in a sports activity. I acutely dislike that. In fact, I think that the title of this thread should be changed to "Overcoat" or "Topcoat".
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    What Is A "Dinner Jacket?"

    You'd be surprized how much place there is for subtle creativity and variety for tails. See the tails thread at the london lounge.http://thelondonlounge.net/gl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5526
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    • Post #65
    • Forum: Suits
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    What Is A "Dinner Jacket?"

    Going back to the red jacket, I think that the term "house jacket" which they use in Esquire means the same thing as "smoking jacket". Both terms refer to a jacket worn at home, replacing either a dinner jacket coat or a city suit coat. The original smoking jacket looks Edwardian, and the one...
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    • Post #63
    • Forum: Suits
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    What Is A "Dinner Jacket?"

    Not right away, he will first say "with trousers to match, of course?" and you will say "of course!", and the tailor will proceed to make the dinner jacket, which includes the coat + trousers. The red jacket is shown on the LL, with the commentary taken from Esquire, and it's called "1) Red...
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    • Post #52
    • Forum: Suits
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    What Is A "Dinner Jacket?"

    The term "dinner jacket" refers to the whole suit, coat and trousers, whereas the term "smoking jacket" refers to the coat only. The term "white dinner jacket" refers to the generally white coat only.
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    • Post #44
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    White Tie - Double striped trousers

    So, what thread should be used when stitching the side stripes to the trousers? Cotton thread or silk thread? I think that silk is best, because cotton would be too visible against the silk background of the stripe. Or, should one use cotton on dinner jacket trousers, because they are less...
    • geo
    • Post #61
    • Forum: Suits
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    Cuffless trousers - snagging problem

    If this happens, then the trousers are too long.
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    What Is A "Dinner Jacket?"

    You all got it wrong, he was talking about Scotland. It's a smoking jacket. And in France, it is known as le smoking. My other question is still unanswered: what goes in a cucumber sandwitch, besides bread and cucumbers?
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    • Post #34
    • Forum: Suits
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    What Is A "Dinner Jacket?"

    Smoking jackets come in many styles. See here:http://www.pakeman.co.uk/products.asp?cat=26 for example for a velvet DB with frog closures and a velvet SB with one-button closure. Both have velvet lapels. Also, see this:http://thelondonlounge.net/gl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5433 There is the...
    • geo
    • Post #14
    • Forum: Suits
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    What Is A "Dinner Jacket?"

    Notch lapel dinner jackets were around in the 30's. The red jacket on the right is a smoking jacket. :offtopic: What else is in a cucumber sandwitch, besides cucumbers and bread?
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    • Post #12
    • Forum: Suits
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    Show us your suits

    Ghos7a55assin, Good pictures, lots of style. For the umbrella though, http://www.foxumbrellas.co.uk/acatalog/shop.html might prove interesting, and the umbrella should be rolled all the way.
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    Pocketwatches

    I have a small pocket watch without the chain that I keep in the outside ticket pocket of my suit jacket.
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    The Death of the Gentleman

    This is my definition: Good manners, education and good society mean proper dress, and that means a suit for business, and no jeans at the opera. And why I say it's dead, is because such gentlemen could be recognized by the way they dressed first. There are well-dressed non-gentlemen, but...

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