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50 Unexplainable Photos
Used to be, that was when you decided it was time to change careers. You kind of had to make up for that, tho, as I think it was easy to consider it a character failure and a mark of shame. I'm reminded of Isham Jones, my favorite orchestra leader. He was a part-time mine-mule-driver and...- Fletch
- Post #162
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Keeping secrets while a craft dies out
Standards have to do first and foremost with quality. Style is closer to a taste than a standard. Putting it another way, what if Art, or any other hatter, tried to talk you out of anything other than a "standard" hat, with such and such a crown, brim, ribbon, color, etc.? We're lucky in hats... -
Keeping secrets while a craft dies out
Sounds like a great life if you've got the knees for it! :D Somehow I see the hat craft as different, tho. The floor man might provide (say) 80% service vs 20% goods. The hat man - probably the reverse, maybe 70/30 if you do a one-off, original, customer-assisted design. You're not working in... -
Keeping secrets while a craft dies out
Not everybody with dough wants a cookie cutter (pardon the metapun). And not everybody with a fresh product or idea is a glorified hobbyist. There's more than one kind of business, and there's more than one way to make ROI, so there's more than one kind of investor. Sometimes you're wasting... -
Mixing and matching materials. Any general guidelines or Faux pas??
Sometimes you can get away with combining stripings. Suit plus shirt, even suit plus tie is common, but usually not great-looking, just okay. What you really want to avoid in stripes is two sets about the same width running the same direction. Don't want to wear a striped shirt with, say... -
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50 Unexplainable Photos
Not that I like to bring up religion, but this might say something about people's relationship with God back then.- Fletch
- Post #155
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you listening to?
I wondered, "How come they sing it? They're supposed to refrain!" It was one of a long series of hints that adults were crazy. -
What are you listening to?
George Simon said he looked (and acted) like Ben Casey. What do you think? Ben Casey probably didn't wave his arms like mad in the operating room. Hadley don't play that! How is anybody going to discover anything you love if you're all meh about it? No, I don't know who Ben Gordon was... -
50 Unexplainable Photos
Heh. Nowadays you wouldn't put a cat in that for fear it'd let go. Back then you'd be like, "Pffft, what could happen?"- Fletch
- Post #152
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you listening to?
Rose of the Rio Grande - Glen Gray & Casa Loma Orch., 1936. The CLO had that way of making any tune above mid-tempo have that crack-train feel. But the Denver & Rio Grande was in receivership just then and didn't have any crack trains. So use your imagination on that Main Line Thru the Rockies... -
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Keeping secrets while a craft dies out
Perception becomes reality when you have to deal with bankers and loan people. It starts out exciting and upbeat. Then they do a little homework and decide they're hat experts. First thing they'll want you to stick rabbit or rat or alpaca or reclaimed wool in the felt - save x% per hat body... -
A-1 Jacket / A1 Flying Jacket - The ultimate Golden Era flying accessory!
Oh and BTW...my Lost Worlds A-1 in heavy seal goatskin has had more wearing time this winter than ANY other piece of outerwear I own - A-1, A-2, cloth or sheepskin, jacket or coat. Good in the cold, the wet, the wind, over several layers or just a tee. I've got it on right now.- Fletch
- Post #346
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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A-1 Jacket / A1 Flying Jacket - The ultimate Golden Era flying accessory!
I agree that would be a great thing to have, but nobody seems to want to touch that idea but limited-run, high-fashion makers. It could be the the design is deceptively simple, but in fact requires a lot of tailoring. It could also be that it is too plain and simple looking to be mass...- Fletch
- Post #345
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Keeping secrets while a craft dies out
The question comes up again: how well do the entrepreneur in you and the craftsman in you get along? At least in the musical instrument field (which I know best), a lot of good craftspeople are anywhere from casual to downright reckless about business. Some people's ignorance is so bizarre it... -
Keeping secrets while a craft dies out
We absolutely do have to operate in real-world, marketplace conditions. One hopes that if we do it creatively and conscientiously, there will be room to do more than just survive - but to grow. How well does the entrepreneur in you get along with the craftsman? Still, TangoYankee put it very... -
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Keeping secrets while a craft dies out
navarre, when you say someone has to "love the trade for what it is," what does that mean? Do you distinguish the trade from the craft - ie, just building/styling/finishing? Is this why you wouldn't teach anyone who was starting from zero? Someone with your level of curiosity and enthusiasm is... -
Keeping secrets while a craft dies out
navarre, when you say someone has to "love the trade for what it is," what does that mean? Do you distinguish the trade from the craft - ie, just building/styling/finishing? is this why you wouldn't teach anyone who was starting from zero? Curiosity and enthusiasm not enough for you? Seems to... -
Jennifer Garner as Miss Marple???
I would say "because they can afford to be so clueless." But whatever.- Fletch
- Post #8
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The "Sharknose" Graham
Remember the Airflow - it was enough of a (perceived) disaster to limit modern car design to gingerbread for the next 15 years. I think it took the double-ended Studebaker to break the trend.- Fletch
- Post #2
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Keeping secrets while a craft dies out
Not in your case, Art. Your reputation is beyond reproach from what I hear on the Lounge. It's great that you're helping others out! But how do you mean not "publicly" - not on the web? Not in a public park? Not when anyone else is around? :cool: I agree one has got to defend what amounts to...
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