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  1. Fletch

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

    In tribute to Vic's hitting streak, here's one Victor, one Brunswick, both from 1934. Jimmie Lunceford's band on Victor, where they were 15 minutes too early and 40 cents too expensive for the still scarce record-buying public. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMPIQizWXhE The customer with a...
  2. Fletch

    Alexander Leathers

    This is why if a man isn't slightly taller than a woman, he should be slightly, but visibly, shorter. That way there's nothing that can be done, and she can wear what she likes. The awkward zone is about 1 1/2" either side of her height. For instance, I'm 5'11", so a gal under 5'9 1/2" or over...
  3. Fletch

    Aero sizing??

    Some makers almost seem to regard their standard measurements as proprietary information. A poor attitude to take when fit is so important to your customers and so much money is at stake. Try to imagine a suit maker taking that stand.
  4. Fletch

    Music suggestions teens and twenties?

    In particularly zippy households you might also find the Six Brown Brothers, the pioneering saxophone vaudevillians - almost always their 200,000 selling Victor, That Moaning Saxophone Rag. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU5JEXMeFT0 Playing catch-up to Paul Whiteman was Chicago's Isham...
  5. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    One for you Downton Tabby fans...
  7. Fletch

    1939 Worlds Fair Blue Adam Fedora

    Adam was among the more wide-awake marketers in the hat trade Here they are advertising on NBC television in 1941, with a studio mockup of their Rockefeller Center store window (sans glass, which would have glared under the lights).
  8. Fletch

    Can someone give me some info on this?

    It says motorcycle, and '80s, to me. It doesn't say much else. :)
  9. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Those campaigners remind me of a bad@ss hat... Don't let his intense expression fool you; Major Clarence Tinker, USAAC, was well beloved by his airmen. At the time of this photo, about 1931, he commanded the 20th Pursuit Group at Mather Field, California, and was busy with the creation of a...
  10. Fletch

    Wall Street's Great Cat Roundup of 1925

    New York's financial district evidently didn't have a lot to worry about in 1925 except for hundreds of cats, which were thought to be disease vectors. As was traditional at the time, any potentially dangerous animals not actually foaming at the mouth were considered fair game for neighborhood...
  11. Fletch

    In what era were vest popular for men?

    Up till WW2, with a revival around 1970. By the late 80s they were gone again.
  13. Fletch

    Alexander Leathers

    A good craftsman shouldn't be too well spoken. His mind may wander from the physical world if it too readily gives voice to thoughts. That's when he'll stitch a beautiful piece of horse off center and ruin it.
  14. Fletch

    Alexander Leathers

    You might see a broadly similar design, but it would have pieced panels for economy, distressed lamb for softness and to make blemished skin usable, and fittings so flimsy they'd make your teeth rattle. And have one or more tacked-on design features meant to appeal to the eye but not the body...
  15. Fletch

    **SOLD** super sunday sale - Cavanagh

    Makes me wish I was a pinhead lol
  16. Fletch

    The Dumbing Down of America - Here's Why

    Clearly, what is needed is more fistfights. I've only been in two in my life, and look at me.
  17. Fletch

    The Dumbing Down of America - Here's Why

    I overloaded it, and the soft screws bent into the soft sockets in the softwood dowling. And one day, I pulled off the clothes and everything just drooped. (As happens to the best of us in our difficult middle years, only there, you can't really blame cut-rate construction.)
  19. Fletch

    Hitler Cat is star of 1939 World's Fair

    New York's World of Tomorrow featured many unusualities. One was an early example of what the Internet decades later knows as Kitlers - cats that looked vaguely like Adolf Hitler. Kitler being held by a lady who looks like she didn't do this kind of thing as a rule. That being the era of...
  20. Fletch

    The Dumbing Down of America - Here's Why

    But. Yesterday I wanted a sturdy coat tree, as the old one had collapsed. I hopped in the go-buggy, followed my nose to about 5 places and found nothing I could use. Time expended: about 90 minutes. I then came home and started messing about with The Google, and within 30 minutes had found 3...
  21. Fletch

    Haters gotta hate. Or is it hatters?

    Part of what's getting under our sweats here is that the stereotypes are widely influential and the reality is anything but. We Loungers are essentially invisible.
  22. Fletch

    The Dumbing Down of America - Here's Why

    Soul food. A meal like that has gedemptive powers. I'm kinda partial to the way this BBQ van out of Des Moines does it, but I can't remember its name. Suffice it to say you need no teef to eat dat beef.
  23. Fletch

    The Dumbing Down of America - Here's Why

    Sooo, uh...how do you like your brisket?

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