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  1. Fletch

    30's Wool DB BELTED-BACK Suit Jacket Pleated Pockets 38R

    Wish we had a dead-on shot of the back. Secrets are being withheld by the camera's fickle eye...are there bellows? reversed pleats to the right, or all the same direction?
  2. Fletch

    30's Wool DB BELTED-BACK Suit Jacket Pleated Pockets 38R

    Yep, "competitive" doesn't always mean price wars anymore. Amongst privatized carriers the competition is for profit margins, which can mean competing to raise rates the least.
  3. Fletch

    Do Aero Jackets Run Large?

    If you have a textbook body type. If you're even a little bit soft around the middle, you're going to need a size up, or it's gonna show off your physique!
  4. Fletch

    The Fedora Lounge Guide to Palm Beach Cloth

    And can no substitute be made for mohair? Where's our sense of can-do?
  5. Fletch

    30s Palm Beach Belted Back Double Breasted Jacket

    Or at the time, the slightly smaller than average chaps. I wore 36R in high school, and yes, I owned and WORE a PB suit then. Played jazz concerts in it.
  7. Fletch

    Prices have gone up on Gibson & Barnes jackets.

    $20 is a pretty modest hike. In a mass market world, it seems like good craftsmanship costs more and more every day!
  8. Fletch

    The Fedora Lounge Guide to Palm Beach Cloth

    Put me down for a couple suits worth.
  9. Fletch

    Swing girls

    Japanese people can do anything, as long as they do it in groups.
  10. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Notice the rightmost man's long underwear, but no socks. Real mountain men never wore socks.
  11. Fletch

    Leather jacket repair/restoration

    This may be tricky. It's often said there are no good deals when it comes to craft repair - you pay top dollar or you wish you had. Do let us know what you find out and good luck.
  13. Fletch

    Facebook anybody?

    You do have to be willing to get a little addictive. There is a lot of info and discussion coming your way on just about any topic, and you can't really archive it, so you need to Be There.
  14. Fletch

    The Fedora Lounge Guide to Palm Beach Cloth

    Not strictly relevant to the Genuine Cloth...but what is the closest suiting in hand and weight available today? I would think a heavy linen, but they are getting really hard to find. (I actually thought PB was linen until the innertoobz came along.)
  15. Fletch

    The Fedora Lounge Guide to Palm Beach Cloth

    The Bob Crosby band in 1940.
  16. Fletch

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Behind the Candelabra, the Liberace thing with Michael Douglas. It kind of makes you want to puke, but so does the real life story. See if you can spot Dan Aykroyd. I couldn't recognize him.
  17. Fletch

    The Fedora Lounge Guide to Palm Beach Cloth

    Sharp look! The grey jacket was favored by a lot of musical groups because it was easier to care for than whites. (I don't think they wore PB Cloth tho. Gabardines kept their shape better.)
  19. Fletch

    Buzz Rickson's B-2...a pictorial review of an endangered species!

    But I'd have to sell my car to pay for it. Call me undiscriminating, but that's what I was hoping to avoid doing.
  20. Fletch

    The Fedora Lounge Guide to Palm Beach Cloth

    Those were the days when all a man in a white suit had to worry about was looking like a street cleaner, and not some decadent feudalist grandee.
  21. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    rogers hart and aunt vicky ...is all we have on this picture. No, they're not the songwriters.
  22. Fletch

    Buzz Rickson's B-2...a pictorial review of an endangered species!

    Materials aside, it's not so much hard to build, it's time-consuming and requires extra-heavy machinery. No other leather garment I know of needs such a heavy lining to be actually sewn in. Others are all sheepskin, including the Irvin. The B-1, I believe, was actually horsehide lined with...
  23. Fletch

    Practical alternative to M-1941?

    M-421 =/= m1941

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