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SOLD: Bold Look Tweed Sports Coat Sz 44
Purchased! Looking forward.- Fletch
- Post #2
- Forum: Classifieds
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Anyone Like Alternative Golden Era Music?
Anything country was called Old Time(y) in the 30s and 40s. Old Time(y) was a record industry term meaning the music of basically White Protestant Anglophone peoples. A subsidiary meaning, used mostly in the rust belt and upper midwest (and generally not by the recording industry, which did...- Fletch
- Post #9
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Britishisms sneaking into American vernacular
One I use a lot lately is "dog's breakfast" - which can be anything, but is generally an unholy mess. DeShays made a complete dog's breakfast of his full dress suit when he attempted his own alterations.- Fletch
- Post #54
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Britishisms sneaking into American vernacular
"Irish Brawn" was not just what dug the tunnels of New York, but also a kind of pork headcheese. "Boiled Fowl" undoubtedly was.- Fletch
- Post #50
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's for Dinner?
Outstanding eggplant parmigiana from Battaglia Bros. in Dobbs Ferry. We're leaving the area but have enjoyed their fresh-made ready-to-heat foods.- Fletch
- Post #2,071
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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if you could find the suit of one famous previous owner, whose would it be?
Paul Whiteman had to lose over 100 pounds to marry Margaret Livingstone in the early '30s. I imagine the suits he wore at the time would fit me nicely. -
PE Class Over the Years
Boys' phy ed got a lot worse during the cold war years. When discharged junior NCOs flooded into the ranks of teachers, it became an unofficial preparation for universal boot camp. All the mental attitude adjustment those ex E-5s and E-4s had been trained to dish out was being visited on younger...- Fletch
- Post #7
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What are you listening to?
Jones Polka - Spike Jones & City Slickers, 1946. Mickey Katz says "everybody have a drink." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3giW0Cj9Y -
The Nationalist Myth, War and "Vintage"
It gobsmacked civilization in part because to many people, Germany was civilization - science, philosophy, technology, industry, the arts. In the 19th and the early 20th century Germans were leaders in all these fields. Of course, at the same time, they were perhaps the most militaristic world...- Fletch
- Post #59
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Palm Beach cloth Marine Tunic?
I just spotted a Navy summer khaki blouse of PB cloth. Unusual because the color had yellowed to a kind of ochre. -
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The Nationalist Myth, War and "Vintage"
So much so that it is difficult to overstate. It was the coming-of-age of humanity's oldest living generation. It is the zero point for relevancy in modern times: the foundation for present-day technology, politics, economics, society, culture. I don't think I'm exaggerating too much here...- Fletch
- Post #38
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What are you listening to?
Life Begins When You're in Love - California Ramblers, under direction of Joe Haymes, 1936. Fred Falensby plays the tenor sax solo on an up tempo take of this tune associated with Billie Holiday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7IgidoosZk -
test jacket cloth half belt size 44
PM bounced. Check you box. Interested in waist measure.- Fletch
- Post #4
- Forum: Classifieds
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Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?
Another sample of Benny's loose-lid period, as he covers Earl Hines' Madhouse in 1935. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H98OTY7gL6M Fr. Hines' original from the year before, in a fat, funky four-beat BG couldn't attempt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JXCk4WjLso -
Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?
January 3, 1936. 11 o'clock Central Time on a wintry Friday night. You're "at the radio," as they used to say, perhaps enjoying a nightcap and a last drag after a little shindig with friends, or just unwinding with a hot chocolate before bed. You're not planning on staying up - if you're in... -
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Articles says men lose fashion sense at age 37....
An ice cream suit isn't the best choice if you don't have the go-to-hell spirit to bring it off. It's become a badge of colonialism, and I think Charles knows that, but just isn't sure what else HRH ought to wear to a state visit in the hot latitudes.- Fletch
- Post #40
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Why!!!! Hipsters!!! Why!!!!!
Too bad we can't just go back and have it be ditchweed again. It's not a narcotic and it's not a panacea. Pot is illegal because of this guy, Harry Anslinger, who was head of the US Bureau of Narcotics in the 1930s and wanted national publicity for his agency and himself.- Fletch
- Post #373
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?
China Boy - Frank Trumbauer, his C melody sax and orchestra, 1934. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUcgZG795BY -
Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?
That one's going on my favorites list. Which is now running about 850 titles. -
Black dinner jacket / white trou?
I puppied out I wore my plain peak SB tux and went a little Hercule Poirot, with an optimo hat, dove grey vest and spectators. You can't see it, but my bow tie has pin dots and my collar is detachable Linene. I was easily the best dressed straight guy there. lol- Fletch
- Post #25
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
