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  1. Fletch

    BRITISH Belt-Back Suits and Sports Jackets

    Okay, now. This was 1935, and Donat's character was a Canadian, who would presumably have been up on American styles. I'll bet you see few or no beltback references in British films - or ads - before this.
  2. Fletch

    BRITISH Belt-Back Suits and Sports Jackets

    Very cagey. Now no one else can have that jacket made!
  3. Fletch

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

    Hadley turned on the heat...why would you do that, it's been so hot in Sydney...anyway, have a bucket of ice and a fainting couch ready, because I'm going to turn up the heat. Here's Back Beats, Mills Blue Rhythm Band, 1935. Red Allen's trumpet owns. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCwQpBgkoXI
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    Too Fat to Fly?

    Not a wartime pic, but half military. Here is petite, winsome aviatrix Bettie Lund - presumably at the National Air Races in the early 1930s, where she was a steady competitor - with an unidentified Air Corps officer who is just about the out-of-shapest flyboy I have seen from that rawboned...
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  5. Fletch

    WW2 USAAF A4 Flying Jacket. Rarity and construction issue.

    OK...I thought it might be an AN-J-4, but I've never seen one with a diagonal back seam. You mean like a Sam Browne across the back? Maybe it was a field repair.
  7. Fletch

    1935 Holy Grail Suit

    It helped keep the price down. I've got a Silvertone brand suit from the late 30s that's a really nice, muted blue with poly stripes, but the wool is short-twist and really scratchy. If I ever wear it, I'll have to line the trousers, maybe all the way down.
  8. Fletch

    A-2 reproductions

    The best size to be if you want a lightly used high-end repro is 42. There are quite a few out there and not so much competition.
  9. Fletch

    WW2 USAAF A4 Flying Jacket. Rarity and construction issue.

    You could be the source of the biggest information - pix please! Never seen one discussed or pictured here.
  10. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    oh, such kittykittykittykittykitties. and the Z dogs are being very good for their bath. Puppy dogs that actually like to be clean are a blessing upon any house. and Tom, 30 lbs?! That's a BIG box o' kittybutt.
  11. Fletch

    Anyone for a brand new crated Spitfire?

    Spitfire shmitfire, but if anybody's mucking about in a lake in northern Italy and finds a Do X, I want to be the first to know.
  13. Fletch

    Type A-1 Trousers...Yep, Trousers...from 1931

    I just got rid of an LW because it was too heavy and stiff. And nobody who bought one of these a size too big would trade. It would be perfectly comfortable for them. Here's the pic of the Wright Field pilots from 1932. Pete Hill, 2d from right, was killed in the crash of the prototype B-17 in...
  14. Fletch

    Type A-1 Trousers...Yep, Trousers...from 1931

    John Chapman said that to get it right, he'd have to price it too high to move more than 4 or 5 a year. Aero was going to build a one-off, but they dropped even that idea. And Eastman sells Buzz - so much for them. I love my Buzz. It just Does. Not. Fit.
  15. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Today your choice is between an OTR 3pc that will ride up and bunch everywhere, and a kilodollar-plus article you wouldn't dare mess up.
  16. Fletch

    1935 Holy Grail Suit

    As someone "built when meat was cheap," I wonder if the suppressed, highly constructed look of the beltback era wouldn't just be a leap into the fire for my body type, out of the frying pan of the slim-cut-but-simply-tailored '60s silhouette.
  17. Fletch

    Which Golden Age Actors/Actresses Can You Watch In Whatever Movie They Are In?

    Joseph Cotten Richard Widmark Rosalind Russell Jean Arthur
  19. Fletch

    Thought you guys may dig my new Vanson Continental Comet

    Almost makes me want a brmm-brmm of my own.
  20. Fletch

    A-2 seam question

    Here's the aforementioned Ens. Wilson in front of his Avenger. Looks like he's sporting an M-422, without the "A" spec pencil pocket. Someone can probably tell you who made it (note how the waist seams stop at the band).
  21. Fletch

    Type A-1 Trousers...Yep, Trousers...from 1931

    That's a big part of it. Make no mistake, the men who wore these were damned brave. A pic from 1932 shows 4 test pilots in B-2s - 2 of them were dead by 1935. But the mystique is of heroism. No Mighty Eighth, no Battle of Britain, no battle of anywhere, no heroes, no interest. Another thing...
  22. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    That's what I call a box o' kittybutt.
  23. Fletch

    Type A-1 Trousers...Yep, Trousers...from 1931

    Apologies for posting below-the-waist outerwear - but here is a rarity among rarities. A pair of Switlik Parachute A-1 trousers in sheep-lined horsehide, the companion to the pure-unobtanium B-1 jacket. I think these were made only by the one contractor, and only in 1931 and 1932, until the...

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