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  1. Fletch

    1930s Leather Jackets (Pics)

    Don't take this the wrong way gents, but I would LOVE to see the first two on a female. Preferably one in prewar riding gear.
  2. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Glenn Miller's first available aircheck, June 20, 1938, from the Paradise Restaurant just off B'way. The band was very good, but the announcer and audience sound listless and apathetic, maybe because Glenn was not yet the next big thing and everybody knew it, or maybe because it was 2 a.m. and...
  3. Fletch

    Practical alternative to M-1941?

    I find the M41's unsecured slash pockets awkward for anything but my hands. The original design had button flaps over the pockets, which is a little more practical. As to a similar jacket, how about a naval M-421? Patch flap pockets, inner snap pocket and a biswing beltback. But you have to...
  4. Fletch

    GW Fried Ostermann A2

    Great info and jacket! I've seen 23383s online but never knew a Navy contractor made them. The covered zipper should have been a clue. Now these "waist tabs"...do you mean the panels down by the zipper?
  5. Fletch

    Size 44 1930's half belt and size 42 1950's half belt measurements

    For the 30s jacket, make sure the waist Is so snug it will pinch if you ever gain weight...lol
  7. Fletch

    FS: Late 40's or early 50's STUNNING suit- vented patch pockets, hollywood waist

    Never heard those pockets called vented...always thought of them as pleated.
  8. Fletch

    Ghost Army - documentary on PBS

    Thought it interesting how most all were recruited from NYC. They obviously needed a lot of young talent in a big hurry and that was the place.
  9. Fletch

    The Fedora Lounge Guide to Palm Beach Cloth

    That dark blue suit with white bucks looks really handsome and really wrong. How is that possible?
  10. Fletch

    Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?

    My Bundle of Love - Emerson Gill and His Castle of Paris Orch., 1926 Great sounding Cleveland outfit. A few more of theirs are on the Tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QECZtRxWc0M
  11. Fletch

    History Channel Gone Wrong

    Not strictly true. They provide programs that will appeal to advertisers to that demographic. There is no room for programs the audience might like if they would screw up advertisers' research and preconceptions. Nobody wants to make the company money and still get fired for being too radical...
  13. Fletch

    Good Wear 1939 Werber Sportswear A2 in Cowhide

    Great looking jacket...IIRC, John makes all the "46s" undersized in prewar designs, because the cut is not appropriate for anyone that big today, who tends to be soft around the middle.
  14. Fletch

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Great. What do you pour over it? lol
  15. Fletch

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Summit Pilsener from St. Paul. It's süffig.
  16. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    September 30, 1936, and game one of the World Series, Yankees-Giants, at New York's Polo Grounds. Babe Ruth, at center greeting autograph hounds, is joined by his second wife Clare, center left, and singer Kate Smith, front left, in the grandstand. WPA Federal Writers' Project photo via NYC...
  17. Fletch

    30s NUNN-BUSH 2-TONE SPECTATOR SHOES! PERFORATED TOPS! 8.5C

    More like keep what makes money, and chuck the rest of it. Very American point of view.
  19. Fletch

    30s NUNN-BUSH 2-TONE SPECTATOR SHOES! PERFORATED TOPS! 8.5C

    Rockabilly means more to the average eBayer than anything 1930s. Fun side story...Woody Herman, the bandleader, had all his shoes made by his dad, a German-born cobbler, who worked at Nunn-Bush for decades.
  20. Fletch

    Best M-422(a) repro?

    If you're a skinnymalink.
  21. Fletch

    Gibson & Barnes Leather

    Jacket makers often don't think it's in their best interest to publicize how their product fits. It's considered proprietary info, despite the fact that the individual customer may or may not decide to purchase based on fit.
  22. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    The Quebe Sisters. 3 Texas bluebells who make country music out of city songs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IphZcs6yRbk
  23. Fletch

    Rare Original photos of A-2s

    The pic with the chaplain is dated 1944 even tho it's obviously one of Bourke-White's color shots from '42. There was no more OD paint on planes by '44 - not in the ETO anyway - and bomber crewmen rarely wore goggles by then.

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