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  1. M

    This or That

    Vintage three-piece. My customers are into them these days, so they pay more for them duds.
  2. M

    This or That

    . Private school, but not an all-boys' one: the students don't bathe often enough and smell like boiled chicken. Lacrosse or water polo?
  3. M

    Anyone use or own Wooden Skis?

    . Anybody use or own vintage (civilian) ski clothes from the Golden Era? If so, do you wear the clothes while skiing?
  4. M

    This or That

    Yeah, high school punk which died off in a freshman fall semester hangover.
  5. M

    This or That

    . Pencil skirts. Wide-legged trousers or pegged trousers?
  7. M

    The Cap Faction

    I'd say yes, and add that it's the closest to a very specific type of vintage cap: a French eight-dart flat cap, which differs in several ways from vintage English and American ones.
  8. M

    This or That

    Absinthe for me now. Jagermeister for me at 18.
  9. M

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    I lived a bit like that in Chile. In Santiago, the capital, few houses and apartments built before the 1980s had central heating. I had to use a portable gas heater with a big, reusable compressed gas tank attached. When the tank was empty, I'd call the gas company, which would send over a...
  10. M

    This or That

    Thanks! So, at some point in the past, people were expected to eat it. Wonder when they stopped, and why the garnishing continued anyway?
  11. M

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    . One legacy of World War II on my French grandmother (who lived through some pretty miserable parts of it as an adult): for the rest of her life, she ate just about every part of an animal (and fish) that was edible. Eyes, bone marrow, cartilage -- and more that I won't get into. Why? "La...
  13. M

    This or That

    . I've never understood the point of using parsley as a garnish. Wonder what the origin of that is? Something concocted by parsley farmers?
  14. M

    This or That

    Bromo Seltzer. Eat the parsley garnish or not?
  15. M

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    It had to do with two things: the improvisational nature of jazz (which assured that you'd never hear the "same" performance twice), and the dance-oriented nature of swing music, which made people want to dance together in a public venue (with live music, because renowned dance venues didn't...
  16. M

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    In the places and decades I mentioned, you could have afforded to see the musicians play. Jazz/swing venues were inexpensive back then.
  17. M

    The Cap Faction

    . So freakin' great, Baron! :eusa_clap:eusa_clap
  19. M

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    Holy Toledo, yes! New Orleans in the 'teens, Chicago in the '20s, Kansas City in the '30s, Harlem in the '40s: musical feasts beyond compare.
  20. M

    BOTH SIDES OF THE TWEED! - Show us your tweed suits, sport coats and pants

    Those suits were from Jimmy Stewart's own closet, by the way.
  21. M

    Information requested about old Florsheim shoes...60's, 70's, 80's,...40's?????

    Your shoe's stacked heel was probably influenced by men's dance shoes (ballroom, tango, disco, etc.), which traditionally have a higher heel than street shoes do. The wafer-thin sole (which did exist as an dress shoe option in the 1930s) is also typical of dance shoes, and was embraced by...
  22. M

    This or That

    Barbigirl! We've missed you!
  23. M

    1920s Summer Dress Shoes on Etsy

    No need to apologize at all. They're a good-looking pair of vintage shoes, and it's always great when people show us cool and unusual stuff.

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