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  1. filfoster

    Nice black 1920's 3 piece suit.

    Correctin hyperlink: http://www.american-vintage.net/
  2. filfoster

    Nice black 1920's 3 piece suit.

    I was able to add a mint early 1900's bowler (and picked up a nice dove gray '40s Homburg) from www.american-classics.net too.
  3. filfoster

    Nice black 1920's 3 piece suit.

    Thanks, GoldenEraFan.
  4. filfoster

    Nice black 1920's 3 piece suit.

    I bought it. Sleeves were 26", a match! Now to find a nice bowler.
  5. filfoster

    Nice black 1920's 3 piece suit.

    If the sleeves are long enough, that damn thing would fit me. Hmmmm. GoldenEraFan, is this yours? Do you know the sleeve length?
  7. filfoster

    When to Wash

    Work shirts (BB pointed collar) laundered after each wearing, light starch. Suits, no more than twice a year. Ditto wool trousers. Jeans? Maybe after a week's wearing. Cotton trousers, shorts, maybe after a week's wearing. I am no authority so this is useful info only as part of a larger...
  8. filfoster

    MY LORD IT'S HOT (Summer attire questions)

    What is the occasion? This would be fine for a daytime social gathering but not hanging around the house unless you're on the front porch, listening to Brick Polllitt play his saxaphone in the evening swelter. Ditto linens and seersuckers. If it's just around the house, I recall the...
  9. filfoster

    Paul Newman's suit?

    Yes, this is the American convention. I am a lawyer with no pretension to 'esquire' but that is the general use here. It is sometimes used as an obsequious honorific. The mystery sustains. It would be interesting to know if the suit's dimensions corresponded to the late Mr. Newman's.
  10. filfoster

    A wallet for the ages, a giveaway

    Would this be better placed in the Classified forum?
  11. filfoster

    Formal Wear Primer

    Custom-made and useless for the thrift store, I suppose....
  13. filfoster

    if you could find the suit of one famous previous owner, whose would it be?

    Jayne Mansfield's birthday suit, circa 1962.
  14. filfoster

    "It would take Man Mountain to..."

    There was also a wrestler here in the MidWest in the late '50's, early '60's named Man Mountain Cannon, a contemporary of the formidable "Haystack Calhoun" who appeared on our local TV on Saturday afternoons on a show called 'Big Time Wrestling', which wasn't, so much. He may have been this...
  15. filfoster

    Theater Evening Attire

    Agree; you don't want to look like a male escort. Or, maybe you do.....
  16. filfoster

    30's~40's Work Boots

    Interesting to see how much these have gone up in price since the original post, and adopted by J Crew for its hipster look.
  17. filfoster

    Less-than-Informal Dress: How Do You Put it Together?

  19. filfoster

    Halloween Costumes

    "The Man With No Name" of the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns. Took a year or so of chasing all the right stuff down at foolish cost. Just finished distressing/bleaching some brown rough-out boots that were a one run-and-done from Fugawee; have a Cimarron Arms Colt conversion and will grow...
  20. filfoster

    LVC resale scene...

    Please point me to a source for 1878's in that price range or even triple. Thanks!
  21. filfoster

    Can any modern-made clothes really pass for vintage?

    Well, has anyone inquired ('enquired'?) of Oxxford for vintage patterns, since that was suggested? I note that the ubiquitous Indy Magnoli suits and Matt Deckard offerings have not been discussed in this regard.
  22. filfoster

    Paul Newman's suit?

    Agree. And the date would support a time when he could have/would have bought a suit like that. Like most tangilbles that don't have a COA or photo of the celebrity handing the item over, or DNA sample on it, (don't go there), these things can always be disputed. tonyb's last post also states...
  23. filfoster

    LVC resale scene...

    Dang!, as they say. Those are nice jeans styles. I am eyeing the hard to find 1878 pantaloons at Unionmade. I won't buy them thinking of a resale but Mrs. F will want an estate sale-soon- if she sees what they cost.

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