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  1. Fletch

    Gentlemen - Delicate Question Regarding Bathroom Decor

    It needs a name. Preferably quaint and Anglo-Saxon. Like "blevitt." Or "croinch."
  2. Fletch

    Why doesn't the Golden Era extend to the 50s or early 60s?

    Oldsmobile drivers were a bunch of tea-sipping cake-eaters.
  3. Fletch

    New Goodwear Prices

    Never mind easy - I'm arguing it's not even possible.
  4. Fletch

    New Goodwear Prices

    All true. Where you will run into trouble is trying to bring those worlds of full bespoke and plain ready-made any closer together than they have been before. You're up against the math and the mindsets of people who really cannot relate, and the mindsets affect the math just as much as vice...
  5. Fletch

    Why doesn't the Golden Era extend to the 50s or early 60s?

    That generation wasn't meant to rebuild. They were brought up to make do with a worn-out world. Not to rebuild. Then they were trained to conform and destroy. Not to rebuild. And when they got home, they learned to conform and destroy in more peaceful ways, and to build. But not to rebuild...
  7. Fletch

    Vintage Suitings: Discussions of, and sourcing modern equivalents, etc.

    Quite right. With jackets, even things like lapel width and shoulder shape have to conform to current fashion, or they can't be made at a popular price. Any vintage features have to be strictly add-on. All you need for a pleated back is more material. But think about a new lapel shape. It would...
  8. Fletch

    New Goodwear Prices

    You said a mouthful. If you work with your hands and are good at it, your personal interest won't extend to things like reaching out to new customers who can't afford The Best. That's marketing, and it implies you take no joy in the product or craft.
  9. Fletch

    Too Fat to Fly?

    Sorry gents. I really thought the comment would be taken in context of that "rawboned, suntanned era," not applied to Loungers in the here-and-now. Not my intention. I'm 5'11" and somewhere north of 200#, okay with my shape, but maybe a little too okay with it. BTW dhermann1, I will be in NY...
  10. Fletch

    A test sample cotton twill flight jacket?

    Yep, red was the old hi-vis orange.
  11. Fletch

    New Goodwear Prices

    All he's doing is keeping standards. And narrowing his market, and inviting competition. Repros could be copied closely. It's just that there usually isn't enough incentive to do it. A 40% price hike could be someone else's incentive.
  13. Fletch

    Role of Brown Suits in the Golden Age

    It's an odd phenomenon: a pleasing color combination that went out of style. It wasn't overused by any means (try finding a blue/brown vintage tie. bet you can't.) It just sort of went away. About the brown suit/blue shoes illustration: it's a joke. The old saying - 1950s to '90s anyway - was...
  14. Fletch

    The Dumbing Down of America - Here's Why

    As someone who's considered a career as a plain-language advocate, what really chaps my breeches is that a needed service is not valued and is being obsoleted. Business, government, medicine, law all lament the lack of good clear written expression. But organizations rarely spare the money...
  15. Fletch

    The Dumbing Down of America - Here's Why

    And now I have a moniker for StyleForum.
  16. Fletch

    The Dumbing Down of America - Here's Why

    Does your crowd a) not know the word? b) know it, but don't hold with that kind of talk? c) not consider it particularly pejorative? ...or d) think it has to do with cats who have ear mites?
  17. Fletch

    RL Brown Tweed Suit 44

    Got those pick-you-up-by-the-points lapels.
  19. Fletch

    Role of Brown Suits in the Golden Age

    The only rule worth remembering is never wear blue shoes with a brown suit. (Original by Oxner, Apparel Arts, spring, 1934. The shoes were originally brown, the tie burgundy.)
  20. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Havana, 1933 through the lens of Walker Evans © Walker Evans Archive, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  21. Fletch

    movie hats that inspired you...

    Put up yer Dukes! Barnstormer pilot John Wayne trails a skywriting extortionist in the serial Shadow of the Eagle, 1932. Here he is menaced by a posse of well-suited bad hats.
  22. Fletch

    FS: 1930s repro Polo Ralph Lauren belt back tweed jacket, ~42-44R

    PM sent...
  23. Fletch

    Ebay can be ridiculous!

    Just saw a slightly used Good Wear A-2 jacket go for the price of a new one. Guess somebody didn't want to get on the wait list.

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