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  1. Fletch

    Summery Hats and Stuff to Sell

    That's OK, I frequently wait a few days to reply, so it happens a lot.
  2. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    If the site and the writing encourage intellectual engagement, commenters can and do raise meaningful points. I've even seen the odd blogger engage commenters right in the comment section. But it doesn't happen enough: most comment sections are mere partisanry, and some make you think they...
  3. Fletch

    George Brent "Missabe" Jacket

    What's the eeensy one for? Smokes? Scoring pencils? Loose change?
  4. Fletch

    White tie breast pocket

    Again - from an era when white tie was a style. Was sophisticated. My point was that today it's lost that connotation. It's too connected with ritual. You could wear it to a black tie event only if you're willing to be seen as flamboyant, or alternatively, if you have some f-u cred, like...
  5. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Oh doggone it, not 1932 again. Pianist Joel Shaw, owner of the least impressive pompadour in show business, led his boss Gene Kardos' orchestra that year for that two-bit outfit, Crown Records. They put out more jazz by volume than any other White artists in that Year of the Shellac Famine...
  7. Fletch

    White tie breast pocket

    Ain't it the truth. The shoe's just on the other foot.
  8. Fletch

    Cedric Gibbons House for sale

    What's tricky is hitting the right note between "cold" and "p!ss elegant."
  9. Fletch

    Summery Hats and Stuff to Sell

    Yo! 'Sup with the Peters? ;)
  10. Fletch

    White tie breast pocket

    Personally, I wish we had the option. Having so eagerly embraced egalitarianism and informality, we're rather stuck with looking that way.
  11. Fletch

    Harvey 1950 - Martini Glasses

    Three words: "three martini lunch." How big can they have been? Have three modern-sized martinis at lunch sometime. Just don't plan to go back to the office. Or drive. Or walk. Or think.
  13. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    One positive is that we can all talk back to Joe Blowhard. It used to be that such a person could claim immense power by learning to channel his own personal obsessions into action. And because of our ingrained respect for institutions, no one could say or do a thing about it without running the...
  14. Fletch

    Your Five Favorite Woody Allen Movies--and Why

    That's what I was trying to get at. It's as tho the music is part of being Woody, but also part of being in his world - a narrow, New York-centered world, that's warm but more than a bit stifling. It's too bad, because altho the music heightens the appeal of his work, he's become so well known...
  15. Fletch

    Unpopular music opinions

    I liked music better when the Magnons and the Cros were still killing each other. But maybe it's because Ted Weems was making all those records about it. lol
  16. Fletch

    White tie breast pocket

    Face it fellas - white tie today is no longer a style. It's a uniform, acceptable only in very limited situations where protocol is everything. If there's not a president, a royal, or a Grand Exalted Muckymuck in the room, you're probably showing off. As such, I would think no hankey would be...
  17. Fletch

    Remix Has a Man's Shoe.

    Captoe specs are rarely made these days. Those that are always have the contrasting bal lace, making this type essentially a dead style (handsome tho it is). So Remix fills a niche, especially at this price point. (Magnoli's will make you some for usd100 more.)
  19. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Meanwhile on Forty Second Street in 1933, it's Hal Kemp and his International Favorites in one of their last hot sides before they became a successful all-sweet organization. The avenue they're takin' ya to - via the 6th Ave. El, about 1936.
  20. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Why would Betty Grable have sung a song about Neil Sedaka? lol
  21. Fletch

    War interest but never served

    IMHO, not political so much as acknowledging his and many other young men's position at that time: between a rock (his own country) and a hardplace ('Nam). I'd say it's an academic question at this point. Like asking how long it would take to reach full employment if the gov't demanded every...
  22. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Rich-ly orchestrated Fred Rich always made good records, most for Columbia in their hi-fi Western Electric system. Here's a coupling from 1926, when the band was at the Hotel Astor: Do-Do-Do and Clap Yo' Hands, both from Oh Kay!, the late Gershwin Bros. success. Fred undoubtedly has the piano...
  23. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    the wearin' o' the green (label) James Morrison, fiddler from Co. Sligo, recording in New York in 1926. Columbia captured quite an array of Irish music on its -F (foreign) series in the '20s - all of which, no matter the country, bore the green label.

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