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  1. Fletch

    Reproduction 1930s Suits (although that's a matter of opinion ...)

    Good point. Designers get their ideas in small bites - one mugshot here, one movie still there, one Lp cover someplace else. They're artists, not scholars. They work in flashes. As to the decline in tailoring vs. OTR - I think we've just been trained to look to the brand culture when we want...
  2. Fletch

    Malta's oldest working prostitute turns 100

    And this gal would have been of age in 1933. Probably saw the movie. With Maltese subtitles. "Qwox zqux sgareemph, zqux gwnth bblbbl!"
  3. Fletch

    New details on Glenn Miller's disappearance

    Glenn was riding in a Noorduyn C-64 Norseman. These were Canadian bush planes, meant for floats and hopping the coastlines and lakeshores. If your engine went out over the briny with dry-land gear, why, it was good night sweetheart, as we say in the band biz.
  4. Fletch

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

    :eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap
  5. Fletch

    Malta's oldest working prostitute turns 100

    Is that the best possible choice of worlds? Really now...lol
  7. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    Kitty. Singular. She is a cat of many moods and expressions, to be sure. We think she looks much younger than her 18 years, but the vet says her eyes and teeth tell the tale.
  8. Fletch

    This or That

    Fiorello by a factor of ten. Both men personified New York, but LaGuardia personalized the city. Moses impersonalized it. Have we done pie? Fruit or nonfruit?
  9. Fletch

    This or That

    Depends what you have your...*ahem* excuse me, if it's ham you're talking, I'll go with bone-in. Pardon me if this has been asked long ago, but black & white or brown & white shoes? Specs, saddles, mocs, don't matter, but state your fave.
  10. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    Kitty Foyle hanging out with the saxes at Xmas time. As a Very Old Cat (18 this month), she spends most of her day doing this.
  11. Fletch

    1930's Music

    [ big sloppy hug, knowing fullwell how Lizzie hates such things ] lol
  13. Fletch

    1930's Music

    No such inference intended on my end, but thanks for making it clear. I applaud you for doing things within the system, but my take on the system is that it can change the rules of the game at any time to favor traditional media and/or deep-pocket players in the new media. It's my hunch that...
  14. Fletch

    1930's Music

    From my music school experience, I have been pretty well indoctrinated in the idea of "teach what to do, but never how to do it." The deepest joys and discoveries seem to require the most frustration - even the embrace of frustration. The knowledge I laid out a few posts upthread approaches...
  15. Fletch

    1930's Music

    I am pretty much besotted with the music of the immediate pre-swing era - which I define as 1930-'34. For my money the first swing recording was Fletcher Henderson's Somebody Loves Me, late in 1930, whereas Benny Goodman's winning a nationally sponsored radio show late in '34 showed the music...
  16. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Little Jack Little (the pride of Waterloo, Iowa) and his orchestra in 1935. One of the more laid-back renditions you'll hear of Lullaby of Broadway. On the sprightly side, Jack spots his own piano on No Other One.
  17. Fletch

    The Milwaukee Clipper: A Forgotten Art Deco Beauty Rusting on Muskegon’s Waterfront

    The Shoreline Inn was purchased by Grand Rapids interests. I'm sure that doesn't help the envy issue.
  19. Fletch

    An Appeal to the Yanks Around Here

    The best American tailoring has always been done by immigrants whose first language was not English, and whose livelihood depended far more on trade secrets than did the British tradition, where tailoring had a higher status and esteem. Add in the greater importance of fashion and the very...
  20. Fletch

    The Milwaukee Clipper: A Forgotten Art Deco Beauty Rusting on Muskegon’s Waterfront

    Is Muskegon up for it, is question one? A private developer would be needed. Could they offer him an attractive partnership? I know the economy is particularly weak in Michigan, but maybe if things get a little better, a project like this could become attractive. Right now Muskegon has only...
  21. Fletch

    RL A-2 Jacket Opinion

    Not long ago I scored a black cowhide Polo A-2 off Ebay for about $275. It's a very high quality jacket that obviously sold for much more originally. It has no size markings whatsoever, but would be a 44 in a high-end repro line. It's about a 48" chest, but does have a taper from chest to...
  22. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Here's Paul Whiteman's band playing "Backyard Fence" and the "new" Rhythm Boys singing it.
  23. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    A Parisian jazzoid whatsis from 1935 - the kind of molto dorko swing novelty you might have heard on an Irving Mills session for Royal Blue Columbia, but in France, this sort of thing was almost always movie music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAaif_14Qd0 If you liked that one (what's the...

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