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    History of Men's Accessories: A Short Guide For Men About Town

    Thanks, Tomasso! The final cover is the top one in your post.
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    History of Men's Accessories: A Short Guide For Men About Town

    My second book was published a little late by Pen & Sword Books last month and is available from all the usual sources. There are chapters on grooming; scents and colognes; food and drink; drinks; sweets; tea and coffee; all forms of tobacco; casini; as well as on dressing accessories.
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    Ladies with cigarettes

    There's one of a young Tallulah Bankhead with a cigarette hanging off her lower lip. Anyone git that one? I have it in an old family film album but that's 7000 miles away.
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    Formal Wear Primer

    On the evening canes point: the reaon that Buchanan and Astaire use malacca canes in The Bandwagon is because ebony is far too heavy to dance that routine with. There used to be stage canes, made of sheared, ebonized malacca but, for some reason, in the film they used natural, whole, clouded...
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    The very *pink* of perfection!

    Here's a little passage on the expression from my third book: "Some say that the phrase ‘in the pink’, denoting happiness, or superlative state, derives from the satisfaction which customers felt in wearing hunting coats which a tailor, supposedly called Thomas Pink, made in the 18th Century...
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    Patey Hats - New Shop

    See here: http://thenakedapegetsdressed.blogspot.com/ :eusa_clap
  8. Big Daddy

    Introduction

    Thanks for the warm welcome!
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    Introduction

    Allow me to introduce myself. I am the author of this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Mens-Fashion-Dressed-Wearing/dp/1844680371/ref=pd_sim_b_12 which a member of the family that owns James Lock & Co recently told me (quite out of the blue), has boosted their hat sales. It is available...
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    Introduction

    Allow me to introduce myself. I am the author of this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Mens-Fashion-Dressed-Wearing/dp/1844680371/ref=pd_sim_b_12 which a member of the family that owns James Lock & Co recently told me (quite out of the blue), has boosted their hat sales. It is available...
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    Fedora Lounge Age Demographics

    I have to be over 50 to assume my id., but I'm just there. But I don't look much like Burl Ives.

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