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    Some tips to help those who are clueless about men's fashion

    Mother of pearl buttons on shirts... no problem. "Hey Pearl, could your mother put some buttons on my shirt?"
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    First hit song memories...

    My first LP (a gift from my parents) was Close to You. The only place to play it was on the living room stereo. Then their next album... was it a tan and brown sleeve? Around the same time, they got Glen Cambell's Gentle on my Mind. My mom bought everything John Gary recorded... she said he...
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    Newer photos of "The Lady Be Good"

    Yes, with Bob Cummings and a B-25... I remember seeing the description for it (in reruns) screwed up to read "B-52."
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    Newer photos of "The Lady Be Good"

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    The two man gentleman band

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    Need advice on archiving stuff

    "-A book listing every single location along with the associated address and phone number in NYC from 1950" Is that a rather large book or does it have quite small type?
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    The two man gentleman band

    I saw them a few years ago on an apparently-rare west coast swing. Three guys at that show-- but only TWO claiming to be GENTLEMEN. I still have the kazoo (they passed them out for audience participation.) My only criticism is that virtually every number was fast and furious. Which would...
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    Mugshots from the 1920's and 30's

    There's always someone making a snide remark about Australia's early days as a penal colony. In this case I suppose it would be "Australian Mugshots-- otherwise known as Class Photos." (There, I've saved somebody the bother.)
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    Was This REALLY the Right Way to ... ?

    I thought perhaps I was about to find the nasal Pete Smith narrating it... I believe there were frequent imitations of him in the 1960s and 70s, in TV commercials and such, which were attempting to sound old-timey. Seems like "Well, what have we here?" was a trademark line. But no, the How To...
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    Bow Ties

    Lately T.J. Maxx has had Haspells for $7.99 and Countess Maras for $9.99. Now I've seen a Hickey Freeman for $24.99! I'll admit it had the most striking pattern of the bunch-- houndstooth, black and light blue, with a bit of silver at the edge of the blue. It reminded me of something I saw in...
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    Some tips to help those who are clueless about men's fashion

    I wondered if that one rule was trying to tell you not to wear suspenders OVER a waistcoat... A young guy shopping in a store said to me, "Excuse me... do you know how long a vest is supposed to be?" I said, "Long enough to hide your belt. That way people can think you could be wearing...
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    Was This REALLY the Right Way to ... ?

    Looks like a Picasso pantomime horse...
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    Was This REALLY the Right Way to ... ?

    I've never heard the guy before. Is it that any offscreen male voice coming through a mic of that era sounds the same, to you?
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    Vintage dress shirt collar styles.

    You have tremendous powers of concentration, to notice shirt buttons on Richard Harrow!
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    My Swing Era dictionary

    It seems like I've heard Stan Freberg say "real George"... in a French accent. Maybe on his parody of "C'est Si Bon"?
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    Some tips to help those who are clueless about men's fashion

    I'm reading this while wearing a shirt with contrast-color collar-- but a solid tie mildly-patterned socks no pleats -- I guess I don't need to go back home and change...
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    Some tips to help those who are clueless about men's fashion

    So that one time I found I hadn't buttoned the lowest button of my waistcoat, I needn't have been embarrassed?
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    Show us your photography

    Janet Klein as the Ship's Maid in The Bilgewater Brothers' "On the Moon" show, 2006-- Taken with a Kodak EasyShare P850
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    Bow Ties

    There's a new large-format book celebrating the 75th anniversary of LIFE magazine, and in the dressed-up group photo of the original seven astronauts of the Mercury program, John Glenn is the only one in a bow tie. (In my opinion it's probably better that Gus Grissom didn't wear a bow, because...
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    Staying Cool: Look, 1948

    Can't comment on the suit, but it's Ben "Grauer"... difficult to see on those pages. I believe in the 1970s, he would be in Times Square on New Years Eve for CBS television, while Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians were playing at ________ Hotel. Oops, can't remember which hotel. Anyway...

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