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  1. Fletch

    First they came for the 3-buttons...

    It's been close to 20 years now since high-roll, 3-to-button suits and jackets became OK to wear again and emerged into the popular price market. Well, guess what: their time is up. They're getting hard to find. I went thru my local Syms/Filene big-box store this week and saw hardly a one...
  2. Fletch

    What hat to wear with a linen suit?

    A hat lighter than the suit looks good. A light panama or milan is very versatile. A hat darker than the suit probably won't look so good. Exception: coconut straw, which is typically one, classic color. It would be fine with tans or seersuckers, but is really too informal for off-whites. I...
  3. Fletch

    Summer suits

    In the US, anything approaching a white suit smells of feudalism. But I wear off-whites anyway. Only my dry cleaner is subjugated by it, and he gets his by putting in mysterious tan rings from time to time.
  4. Fletch

    Musician's hats

    Bix's pal, and the giant of the C melody saxophone. Circa 1929.
  5. Fletch

    Make Your Own Vanity Plates

    I did mine the hard way. Original here
  7. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    A couple sides by Michel Warlop, Django's favorite violinist (but not his fans'): Presentation Stomp, 1934. Big band romp with solos by all and sundry. Strange Harmony, 1935. Fewer musicians but more fiddling.
  8. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    A very impressive saxophone act from 1937, The Kit Kat Rascals.
  9. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    N.y.c. * A Tree Was A Tree - Isham Jones & Orch., 1933. An objectivist serenade. *No You Can't hear it anywhere online.
  10. Fletch

    Magnoli Clothiers how does it work?

    Just MNSHO? He has short guys doing his tailoring. They live in a country full of short guys. They've only ever measured short guys. 11 inches IS a long rise to them. As for lack of communication? Today only the high-end tailors really interact with their clients. It's become a premium...
  11. Fletch

    FS: 2 Lofgren Caps - "Large" size, Like New! **PHOTOS**

    Ah well. ;)
  13. Fletch

    FS - Olney boater - size

    PM sent!
  14. Fletch

    Vintage Tech: The 1st Public Cell Phone Network

    In 1935, police car "radiotelephones" required a 20-lb transmitter, the size of a small suitcase, with its own 300-volt electric motor!
  15. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Singular, dim, and rich ...today might describe Paris Hilton, but in 1917 it was how Columbia Records characterized the sound of their Saxo Sextette. Click the pic to play
  16. Fletch

    Your personality traits~ best and worst

    < noogies MikeBravo, two months belatedly >
  17. Fletch

    FS: 2 Lofgren Caps - "Large" size, Like New! **PHOTOS**

    How's the sizing? Would a 61cm head fit?
  19. Fletch

    William Dudley Pelley & the 1936 Monty-Ward catalog

    But not then. All soldiers and marines were issued them.
  20. Fletch

    Stetson Ibarra, anyone?

    "leather interior for comfortable fit"
  21. Fletch

    Stetson Ibarra, anyone?

    Tell me why I should or should not buy this panama. I kinda like the profile, and the wimpy brim (neither wide nor stingy).
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  22. Fletch

    What did you dream about last night?

    Playing in a band. Happens about twice a month (about as often as I play out these days). Wish I were doing it more and dremaing about it less.
  23. Fletch

    Three piece suits

    Where are you shopping, may I ask?
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