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  1. Fletch

    50s Forstmann Suit with hollywwod waist Slacks and more

    A besom pocket (say: BEEzum) is any slit pocket with edging or binding around the opening. Dress trousers have them in back, but usually build the front pockets into the side seam rather than making slits in the front panels. Trou or trous are just trousers. You might compliment a friend as...
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    "Blucher Moccasins"

    There's rarely a "few extra bucks" option. Plain goods well made are becoming luxury-class items.
  3. Fletch

    50s Forstmann Suit with hollywwod waist Slacks and more

    My gosh, I never saw besom trou pockets that old. I grew up thinking they were strictly for Italians!
  4. Fletch

    Who is today's Steve McQueen?

    There's a different kind of "manly" today that you may not be paying attention to when focusing on the PC issue. Jesse James is an example: a great big kid who's been running on ego and hormones so long he probably no longer knows he's play-acting.
  5. Fletch

    meditations on doing yesterday's music today

    You know Danny, as I reply the cuts, I'm actually coming to agree with you. These young Brooklyn unhipsters may just be in the right place and time to break the rules. I'm in the east for at least 3 more weeks. Mail me.
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    Who is today's Steve McQueen?

    Neither was Erich von Stroheim - without his veneer of Prussian Kultur the man would have been a complete metrosexual (not to mention a hatter's son from Vienna who grew up speaking Yiddish)! The trend to caveman psychology argues that cool is subject to fads, but gender isn't. This is a way of...
  8. Fletch

    Who is today's Steve McQueen?

    And manly men are less mature somehow. Today's masculine archetype is actually cruder than it once was - it's younger and not so civilized. I blame wartime and cultural reaction - the lad movement, evo-psych, so-called retrosexuals...
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    Who is today's Steve McQueen?

    McQueen wouldn't be McQueen today. Or if he were, he wouldn't be archetypal. Cool today doesn't have that puckish side that he had. Cool now is pure roleplay, the irony that knows no irony. Watching Steve, you could tell he was too genuine for that.
  10. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    You would have liked Kitty. She carried herself with pride and took no crap from any human.
  11. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    It's good they agree. Contentious koi take all the tranquility out of a home.
  13. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    She said it loud and clear just after 10 tonight. We drove her to the vets', some waiting to do which is always hard, but her fight is over. Good old kitty.
  14. Fletch

    meditations on doing yesterday's music today

    But something can always be learned by trying, if it's expressive and it touches us. As a musician, though, I know that there are some kinds of expression that are considered valid and some that aren't, and it doesn't always have to do with what touches us, but what is valued culturally or...
  15. Fletch

    What Golden Era star do you think other users look like?

    I was about to say William Bendix. But I'll give you a break. lol geddit???...Bendix...give you a brake...I kill me sometimes.
  16. Fletch

    Cotton-rayon: what have I been missing?

    I have a bone-colored Haspel suit from several springs ago that's made of an ultralight brushed twill of 50/50 cotton and Tencel, a subtype of rayon that dewrinkles easily and has wicking properties. It's given great service in hot weather and I hope to find another one some day.
  17. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    Kitty has no cancer per se, but her white blood cells are taking over her system. She's survived this 4 years now, much longer than a typical cat that lasts a few months. We're conferring again Thursday, but I'm thinking it will be nap time.
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    Why Don Draper IS Lounge

    I can't stand Mad Men. It's too reverent to its characters and to its own lens, or gloss, on the past. The drama is stilted, the characters unlikable and uninteresting, and the pacing and dialog heavy. As far as I can tell from people I know who lived and worked in that era, it bears about as...
  20. Fletch

    1930s and 40s Finnish Homes

    Something interesting about Finland in this era: it was the one country in the West that was mostly spared the Great Depression, due in large part to its timber exports. After a slump in 1929-'31, the Finnish recovery started as early as 1932 and the economy grew steadily for most of the '30s...
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    Loungers' Pets

    Thanks. We have baby, kitten and cat foods waiting. Just in the past hour, she drank a big ole drink of water, then climbed up onto a windowsill. Hasn't done either for at least 2 days. The catness is not all gone.
  22. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    The one this is hardest on is not the cat. It's my mom (whom I am here visiting), who is giving up on her and is a volatile mess. Kitty just lies around like an old slipper, fed awful glop thru a tube, barely being a cat at all.
  23. Fletch

    meditations on doing yesterday's music today

    Of course, that closes the door on learning anything from recordings - which is, and was, considered unprofessional, because it doesn't give written notation the privilege it's traditionally enjoyed. Jazz students today learn to transcribe recorded solos, but the idea is to play them from the...

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