Houndstooth two button jacket 1946

[scotrace]

Wolfmanjack, both those pictures are keepers. If I spotted you at an event, I'd make a beeline for your group, as would everyone else, because there would be no mistaking who the most interesting chap around was.

 

[Flitcraft]

Whoa! Baron K.! Ithink I singed my corneas!lol

 

[Baron Kurtz]

And would you believe that's the one with the LEAST strobing!

It's like staring at gingham, i tells ya . . .

bk

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Those trousers are my current project. Unfortunately they have two big holes worn through in the bum cheeks, and another in the crotch. I had to shorten the legs, which gave me enough fabric to get proper patches to match the pattern. They'll never be invisible mends, but i think they'll be passable for getting around the house and when wearing a jacket etc.

bk

 

[Sunny]

Indeed they were once the default outfit for practically any outdoorsmen, including rangers, hunters, soldiers, surveyors and engineers, to name a few. I wish they still were. I find breeches 'n boots very comfortable, with superb freedom of movement, and excellent protection in the brush, mud and snow. What a pity that they are now just 'too much' for anything other than the English hunt.

Breeches and boots are still the uniform for senior cadets at Texas A&M University.

Those trousers are my current project. Unfortunately they have two big holes worn through in the bum cheeks, and another in the crotch. I had to shorten the legs, which gave me enough fabric to get proper patches to match the pattern. They'll never be invisible mends, but i think they'll be passable for getting around the house and when wearing a jacket etc.

Baron, good luck on the repairs. What kind of a patch do you do? I had to patch one of my wool ACW dresses because of ink and a burn (being careless while starting the campfire) and had a difficult time getting the wool to lay flat. It's one of the rare times I preferred sewing with cotton to wool. A cotton patch will at least press completely flat and visually "disappear." My wool patches always have depth to them.

 

[Fletch]

Breeches and boots are still the uniform for senior cadets at Texas A&M University.

As a fan of a rival Big 12 school, I have no comment, except that Iowa Staters tell a joke about Aggies and their boots that more familiarly is told about Italy and its boot shape. Neither is postable here.

 

[Sunny]

As a fan of a rival Big 12 school, I have no comment, except that Iowa Staters tell a joke about Aggies and their boots that more familiarly is told about Italy and its boot shape. Neither is postable here.

I was just pointing out that breeches have not been entirely abandoned. There's no need to go into school rivalry.

 

[Fletch]

School rivalry is actually pretty goodnatured at Iowa State. We say we hate U of I, but if they go the distance, we'll root for them.

The Aggie joke allusion was just to point up why they wear the breeches outfit - not to project an image as genteel outdoorsmen like Wolfman, but as proud bearers of tradition and authority like George Patton.