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  1. "Skeet" McD

    Walking Sticks & Canes.

    Tread on the tail o' me coat! And then there are the rustic sticks, for walks or....wigs on the green. The first is a tourist item, bought by a tourist: yours truly, in Ireland in the mid 1970s. These were, and are, ubiquitous...some are truly horrid, just any old bit of wood, slathered...
  2. "Skeet" McD

    Walking Sticks & Canes.

    "Civilized Walking Sticks" I guess old guys can occasionally still beat out youth... :rolleyes: Herewith the dacent sticks: First, a bog-oak item that will, should I ever need one, probably be my daily prop. Bog-oak was a favorite souvenir from one fo the first real tourist-traps: The...
  3. "Skeet" McD

    Bad Table Manners

    At least by the old rules, it would be proper to leave your napkin unfolded...yes, even in a wad. I expect that the reasoning behind this otherwise somewhat odd prescription is to ensure that a lightly soiled napkin not be confused for an unused one and re-used...which I expect made more sense...
  4. "Skeet" McD

    Bad Table Manners

    Dear dC, Well: that might have ONCE been the case...but, at least in these parts, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who handled their silverware with any rhyme or reason. I expect they still teach such things at finishing schools...if anyone still goes to such a thing...but elegant dining...
  5. "Skeet" McD

    Straw Hat Day

    It's all about the weather, I suppose... Here in unpredictable New-England, exactly two weeks ago, the temperature stood at 98°, and I had a 2.5 mile walk to look forward to to get to my usual Tuesday Irish session. White trousers: white shirt: and out came the panama; it just seemed WAY too...
  7. "Skeet" McD

    What are you wearing today??

    Real-world meets Cyber-world... http://gallery.me.com/finiancircle#100014/DSCF2518 On the way to meet fellow-FLer vonWotan for luncheon at Boston's landmark Marliave Restaurant, a first meeting for two lads who share shooting; hunting; bird-dogging; regional Italian cooking; and ancient...
  8. "Skeet" McD

    W.P.A. sewing rooms montana

    Bingo. Merci, M. le Chevalier! "Skeet" but you can call me "Cynulcus", if you want....
  9. "Skeet" McD

    W.P.A. sewing rooms montana

    Dear Marc, I doubt I'd be the only one to have suspected, from the first post, that...all was not as it seemed in this thread. Hey: no need to drag JJ into it, and the lack of caps is the least perplexing issue at hand, in my opinion. "Skeet"
  10. "Skeet" McD

    Walking Sticks & Canes.

    Lather away with the shtickeen! I'm not prepared to offer a personal opinion as to the authenticity of this material, but am prepared to say...I believe that an actual, authentic, Irish style of stick fighting did exist... http://www.geocities.com/glendoyle/bata/ "Skeet"
  11. "Skeet" McD

    Interest check: Antique radio MP3 players/iPod docks

    Me too... Definitely interested...would want to see, of course...primary interest: mid 1930s. "Skeet"
  13. "Skeet" McD

    Walking Sticks & Canes.

    If it's any moral support...I was carrying a stick from time to time to school at your age. It's been done before....and survived! You are dead on in your thoughts about the tophat, IMHO: no costume. Clothing that is REAL clothing has a dignity that imitations can never achieve. "Skeet"
  14. "Skeet" McD

    Walking Sticks & Canes.

    Pardon me? :rolleyes: You'll have to give me a handicap due to age... (because of short-term memory loss, of course) "Skeet"
  15. "Skeet" McD

    Walking Sticks & Canes.

    Dear AV: I'm sure there are Beaus here who can quote you chapter and verse; but for my opinion...like everything else in traditional dress: it's a matter of composing the overall picture. A walking stick can, and--to the best of my knowledge, at least--was worn with just about every kind of...
  16. "Skeet" McD

    Walking Sticks & Canes.

    As I walk along the Bois Boolong with an Independent Air... AV: the practical reasons of postural/locomotive support and defense from man and beast can explain a good deal of walking stick use...but it never was all of it. They have been, and still are, used purely as a male adornment...and...
  17. "Skeet" McD

    Ebbets Field Flannels

    A two-fer of Cooperstown Ball Caps... Well...the early "Skeet" cap came yesterday. I must admit....there's a certain perversity lurking behind my having this reproduced...I hardly need remark that just about everybody on a Skeet field today is wearing...a ballcap. And that just about...
  19. "Skeet" McD

    Where did your user name come from??

    Finally, a good excuse! I began to look seriously at the 1930s because of my interest in early Skeet shooting, a shotgun target game introduced nationally in the late 1920s: during the '30s its popularity grew tremendously. It is still popular today, but shot under very different rules (sadly...
  20. "Skeet" McD

    Nineteenth Century Explorers' equipment

    Dear Nick, You'll know best of course: but by eye, at least, I'd have a hard time dating this to the 19C....1915 to 1935 would be my guess, with my best guess right in the middle of that. For what it's worth. Whenever it is: great picture, and a nice documentation of a Lady Sport, who LOOKS...
  21. "Skeet" McD

    Pocketwatches

    As above... As are we all. Congratulations on your degree: do no harm! And remember: it will only be an anachronism if you don't use it. Wear it daily, and proudly. "Skeet"
  22. "Skeet" McD

    Quail Recipe

    Good luck to you, and let us know what you think! Looks like you're in the right neck of the woods for it....up here in the frozen Nawth...there's just one county in Massachusetts with a population of Ge'man Bob....and, for that matter....dove isn't game. Sigh. Good hunting, good eating, and...
  23. "Skeet" McD

    Show us the food dishes you've prepared.

    "Pan' Zizdjilianu" http://gallery.me.com/finiancircle#100014/DSCF2495 http://gallery.me.com/finiancircle#100014/DSCF2493&bgcolor=black For some reason, I tend to make this bread in the "heated term" as they would have said in the 19C...as an American who grew up in a town in NY divided pretty...

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