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  1. Fletch

    Mislisted 30s/40s tweed suit

    I'd have been popping those buttons by 22. :(
  2. Fletch

    Exploring 1938 San Francisco through aerial photography in Google Earth

    No inside knowledge here, mind you. This was just typical of the public service work the AAC would have done earlier in the '30s. By 1938 I think they were focused on getting ready for the next world war. This sounds like a civilian project, and more than that, privately funded. Here's an...
  3. Fletch

    Buck Skein Western Shirt

    A little more about Buck Skein, which was a tradename for a cotton moleskin fabric. The brand was popular in the 20s thru 50s for shirts and outerwear. Buck Skein ad featuring Tom Mix, 1929
  4. Fletch

    Help!!! I need pin up name.

    Shorten your current name and you get Vera Van. She was a radio singer (and a beautiful one!) in the '30s, so I guarantee nobody's using it now. Here's a clip you'll like. She's dressing for the evening while singing her big feature, I Wanna Be Loved. Freddie Rich conducts his band...
  5. Fletch

    Widening trousers? A tip from the German Air Force

    Anecdote, non-personal: Junior enlisted Marines are careful NOT to have their dress blues tailored too much. The off-the-rack fit makes you one with your unit - anything else is showing off.
  7. Fletch

    Mislisted 30s/40s tweed suit

    No way in heck is that a "60s" suit! Seller's trying to bask in the glory of Camelot. I wouldn't date it past FDR's third inaugural. Poor sap probably doesn't know clothes that old are worth anything.
  8. Fletch

    What gives you that vintage feeling?

    Older folks in the '40s and before didn't smoke so much - especially cigarettes, which had been illegal in many places before 1920 (they were thought to tempt the young). Women especially didn't smoke until well into the '20s - in fact it took an all-out Lucky Strike campaign to change that...
  9. Fletch

    FS: Unique 1930s tweed sports coat, large size

    I'd'a been right on it were it not for the unusually wide shoulders, which I never could bring off. Triple rarity, in size, detail, and lightweight.
  10. Fletch

    vintage toys

    Looking at that stuff, it's easy to understand why early 20th century toys are worth more than pre-Columbian pottery or Roman coins.
  11. Fletch

    Exploring 1938 San Francisco through aerial photography in Google Earth

    A few years earlier - deep in the depression when the military didn't even have the budget for maneuvers - they'd probably have approached the Army Air Corps and engaged some bombers from Hamilton Field. Maybe even brought out George Goddard, the AAC's ace photographic officer.
  13. Fletch

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Something concocted by the Iowa Brewers Union called Dr. Z's Health Preparation or something like that. This is basically beer without hops, but with several botanicals added (I forget which). Sounds awful? It wasn't. Sort of a light shandy flavor. It would taste great with lime.
  14. Fletch

    Bespoke tailor barely scraping by in New York

    There has to be a solution somehow. It's going to have to come from the NY area - because where else in this country does bespoke tailoring mean anything at all? But it will have to come from outside the craft - because it is literally too demanding to let you even think about a business model.
  15. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    T vs. Tree: 1920 (if Shorpy had run it)
  16. Fletch

    //SOLD//1947 Catalogue GGG Clothes//SOLD//

    GGG was in business till 1977, when bought out by Martin Greenfield. Used to see their ads in The New York Times Magazine, along with a lot of other clothes makers, back when the readership was still mostly local.
  17. Fletch

    Definition of "star boarder"

    Are you really a "boarder" if your wife's the landlady?
  19. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Jazz pianist Henry Crowder, photographed by Man Ray. Paris, 1930.
  20. Fletch

    Black dinner jacket / white trou?

    Makes sense. Of course, if you were Cab Calloway, you had ivory tails with satin facings. Did anyone else, in or out of show biz, ever wear such an outfit?
  21. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Wonder what those were. Bawdy houses? Railroad crossings? Darkrooms? Mackay Telegraph later became Postal Telegraph. Clarence Mackay (say "Mackey") gained a son-in-law in composer Irving Berlin. They didn't get along.
  22. Fletch

    Nothing but stetson ads

    They didn't want to be bothered tooling up for that stuff, so out it went.
  23. Fletch

    Black dinner jacket / white trou?

    Betcha anything those ties matched the lapels - probably some natty color like pearl grey. I find such a look acceptable only as a uniform. Nosing around on the Ask Andy forum suggests the ducks 'n tux fashion involved plain whites without a stripe. However, matching trou were briefly favored...

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