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New Ladies and Gents Step Forward
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Fifty150
Call Me a Cab
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- The Barbary Coast
Does that mean that you'll be moving back to California?
60Years2Late
New in Town
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- 36
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- Memphis, TN
No, I own a house here in Memphis, have a good job, and my daughter is here. I'm pretty much stuck in Memphis.
SlickBastard
New in Town
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- 3
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- SF Bay Area
Hey everyone,
I'm new here and this is my first post. I've been a lurker on this forum for a few months and thought I should probably just sign up and contribute. Well, here I am...
I'm new here and this is my first post. I've been a lurker on this forum for a few months and thought I should probably just sign up and contribute. Well, here I am...
Hi all! I'm not exactly new but was a fairly regular visitor about 12 years ago. Can't believe it's been that long.
Life's been a roller coaster since then, and working nights at a computer for a decade didn't do much for my health and weight, so finding cool, stylish things went on a back-burner.
But I left that job, got my health back on track, halved my previous size, have spent a lot of time hiking and riding a mountain bike, and recently got my motorcycle license. I don't know if I'll get a motorcycle or not, but I remembered what brought me here all those years ago... wanting a cool, leather jacket. I haven't eaten beef (nor chicken) in several years now, but I'd still like a groovy leather jacket.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this community when I was here and was bummed when things went sideways with my personal life/health, so hi!
Life's been a roller coaster since then, and working nights at a computer for a decade didn't do much for my health and weight, so finding cool, stylish things went on a back-burner.
But I left that job, got my health back on track, halved my previous size, have spent a lot of time hiking and riding a mountain bike, and recently got my motorcycle license. I don't know if I'll get a motorcycle or not, but I remembered what brought me here all those years ago... wanting a cool, leather jacket. I haven't eaten beef (nor chicken) in several years now, but I'd still like a groovy leather jacket.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this community when I was here and was bummed when things went sideways with my personal life/health, so hi!
Welcome (back) to the Fedora Lounge.
Leather_nube
One of the Regulars
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- 166
- Location
- EU mainland
Dear all,
just wanted to say an initial hi. New to posting here. Been reading for what seems like an eternity and became a member in '21 ish. This is my first real post.
I have a problem with leather jackets. It’s been an issue since I was approximately 11. I am no longer 11, sadly. Though I couldn’t afford a nice jacket then regardless. I am on the seemingly perpetual voyage to find my perfect jacket; I’m fully aware it’s likely a voyage that never ends.
Feeling very drawn toward natural veg tanned leather at the moment. Maybe a premier MWM….not decided yet. Or a western shirt. Or trucker…or…
To add insult to injury, I’m also Irish. I know, rough. Live in Germany.
That is all for now I think. Happy to be here. Great forum.
Cheers,
Liam
just wanted to say an initial hi. New to posting here. Been reading for what seems like an eternity and became a member in '21 ish. This is my first real post.
I have a problem with leather jackets. It’s been an issue since I was approximately 11. I am no longer 11, sadly. Though I couldn’t afford a nice jacket then regardless. I am on the seemingly perpetual voyage to find my perfect jacket; I’m fully aware it’s likely a voyage that never ends.
Feeling very drawn toward natural veg tanned leather at the moment. Maybe a premier MWM….not decided yet. Or a western shirt. Or trucker…or…
To add insult to injury, I’m also Irish. I know, rough. Live in Germany.
That is all for now I think. Happy to be here. Great forum.
Cheers,
Liam
Johnnysan
One Too Many
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- 1,171
- Location
- Central Illinois
Hello all,
I'm a long-absent returning member (looks like I last posted in 2014!) Since then, like most of you, I've had a LOT of life events, most notably a bout with cancer (all good now), retirement (highly recommended), and a daughter who'll be off to university later this year to finish up her last two years towards her bachelor's degree. As my wife and I are getting a bit older, we're seriously trying to downsize and have started with our closets. Most of my business wardrobe has been sent off to various local charities and few vintage items have been donated to a local theater group (the show must go on!) I'm keeping several of my prized hats, but have a couple of special ones that may be put up for sale, as well as a few odds and ends. Looking forward to getting acquainted with everyone again!
I'm a long-absent returning member (looks like I last posted in 2014!) Since then, like most of you, I've had a LOT of life events, most notably a bout with cancer (all good now), retirement (highly recommended), and a daughter who'll be off to university later this year to finish up her last two years towards her bachelor's degree. As my wife and I are getting a bit older, we're seriously trying to downsize and have started with our closets. Most of my business wardrobe has been sent off to various local charities and few vintage items have been donated to a local theater group (the show must go on!) I'm keeping several of my prized hats, but have a couple of special ones that may be put up for sale, as well as a few odds and ends. Looking forward to getting acquainted with everyone again!
SimplyGF
New in Town
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- 4
Hi all,
I wanted to introduce myself and voice my appreciation that such a forum exists! I'm a licensed healthcare practitioner, parent, and older Millenial. My hobbies are photography, riding motorcycles, and riding bicycles with the latter having much less of an influence on my personal style (lol). I enjoy dressing in vintage styles but have no problem mixing things up if only to reaffirm my disdain for toxic masculinity or the prevailing notion that we aren't (insert noun here) as good as we ought to be. Anyway, I am eager to learn from this community and get to know people over time!
I wanted to introduce myself and voice my appreciation that such a forum exists! I'm a licensed healthcare practitioner, parent, and older Millenial. My hobbies are photography, riding motorcycles, and riding bicycles with the latter having much less of an influence on my personal style (lol). I enjoy dressing in vintage styles but have no problem mixing things up if only to reaffirm my disdain for toxic masculinity or the prevailing notion that we aren't (insert noun here) as good as we ought to be. Anyway, I am eager to learn from this community and get to know people over time!
99Tjadams
New in Town
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- 16
Hello, just wanted to introduce myself.
Having been trying out selvedge denim for a couple years I have recently slipped into the Viberg/service boot/chelsea rabbit hole.
Now looking forward to expanding this new addiction and learning a lot about leather jackets here.
Hoping to find an Aero type III to add to my schott, waxed canvas and others.
Same username on other platforms, from the great white north.
Having been trying out selvedge denim for a couple years I have recently slipped into the Viberg/service boot/chelsea rabbit hole.
Now looking forward to expanding this new addiction and learning a lot about leather jackets here.
Hoping to find an Aero type III to add to my schott, waxed canvas and others.
Same username on other platforms, from the great white north.
Le Black Hand
New in Town
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- 7
Longtime lurker, first time poster. Been a member of Styleforum and Superfuture since the early 2000s and suppose I finally 'graduated' to Fedora Lounge hehe. I am a workwear and westernwear enthusiast, who does chain stitching on a 1930s Singer in my freetime. Nice to meet you all!
Welcome!
doobs
New in Town
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- 9
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- Williamsburg, VA
Greetings and Salutations,
I just stumbled across "The Fedora Lounge", looking for information about a nubuck leather Orvis jacket/blazer I bought off of the 'bay.
It's kinda funny story. LOML were perusing an antique store here in Williamsburg, VA, where we recently retired. In one of the cabinets in the store were two Orvis jackets, one a bomber style and the other more of a blazer.
The bomber jacket was of no use to me, but the blazer piqued my curiosity. It was soft and attractive, but unfortunately, being a size 52, it swallowed me up.
I collect Seiko kinetic watches and was looking around the 'bay to see if anything new had popped up. When I was done, for laugh I did a search for an Orvis leather jacket.
The first result was the exact same jacket in a size 42, which would fit me perfectly. The seller was out of town, so I watched over the auction for a couple of days.
I got a message from the 'bay that a number of the items I was watching where eligible for a 15% discount including the jacket, and I was in. Done. Kismet.
The jacket showed up, and it's a leather that I was unfamiliar with. Definitely not a traditional leather and definitely not suede. I contacted the seller and he said it was nubuck, which I had never heard of before. Yes, I lead a sheltered life....
So, I went off in search of information, and searching on "Orvis Bandera Leather Jacket" led me to the Fedora Lounge.
Looking around, I was intrigued. I'm definitely a fan of vintage things, so I was drawn in. I registered and the rest they say was history.
So, for a bit of background:
I'm a fairly recently retired electro-mechanical engineer. Most of my professional career was spent designing, building and operating underwater robotic systems called ROV's, which is short for Remotely Operated Vehicles. If you have seen the movie Titanic, it's the system shown there.
I was born in New Orleans (Metairie actually), but my family and I migrated to Northern Virginia (Reston) after Hurricane Katrina. Katrina was a defining moment in our lives. We loved New Orleans, but life post Katrina has been good to us as well.
Last year, in anticipation of retirement, LOML and I had a look around to see where we would like to settle down. NOVA was out of the question, for a whole plethora of reasons. We wanted somewhere slower, more polite, more "southern".
We drove around a lot and truth be told nirvana was Chattanooga, TN. Lovely place. Absolutely lovely, but and there is always a but, it's a 10 hour drive from my kids. Just really not workable.
So we continued driving around, and excluded a lot of other places, but kept coming back to Williamsburg. It's quiet, has amazing history to experience, not dissimilar climate to New Orleans, and most of all the people are friendly and welcoming.
After coming to that conclusion, a house search began. The smallness of Williamsburg made that an issue. Not many houses for sale, and when they did come up the ones we were interested in didn't last long. So we decided to have a house built through an interesting sequence of events, a story that perhaps I'll tell later.
We moved in the house in October of 2023, and have slowly been getting familiar with the area. It's definitely a smaller community. Things we were used to having at arms length now take a bit of sleuthing to find.
That's all for now. Just wanted to say hello. I've been working my way around the site.
cheers,
I just stumbled across "The Fedora Lounge", looking for information about a nubuck leather Orvis jacket/blazer I bought off of the 'bay.
It's kinda funny story. LOML were perusing an antique store here in Williamsburg, VA, where we recently retired. In one of the cabinets in the store were two Orvis jackets, one a bomber style and the other more of a blazer.
The bomber jacket was of no use to me, but the blazer piqued my curiosity. It was soft and attractive, but unfortunately, being a size 52, it swallowed me up.
I collect Seiko kinetic watches and was looking around the 'bay to see if anything new had popped up. When I was done, for laugh I did a search for an Orvis leather jacket.
The first result was the exact same jacket in a size 42, which would fit me perfectly. The seller was out of town, so I watched over the auction for a couple of days.
I got a message from the 'bay that a number of the items I was watching where eligible for a 15% discount including the jacket, and I was in. Done. Kismet.
The jacket showed up, and it's a leather that I was unfamiliar with. Definitely not a traditional leather and definitely not suede. I contacted the seller and he said it was nubuck, which I had never heard of before. Yes, I lead a sheltered life....
So, I went off in search of information, and searching on "Orvis Bandera Leather Jacket" led me to the Fedora Lounge.
Looking around, I was intrigued. I'm definitely a fan of vintage things, so I was drawn in. I registered and the rest they say was history.
So, for a bit of background:
I'm a fairly recently retired electro-mechanical engineer. Most of my professional career was spent designing, building and operating underwater robotic systems called ROV's, which is short for Remotely Operated Vehicles. If you have seen the movie Titanic, it's the system shown there.
I was born in New Orleans (Metairie actually), but my family and I migrated to Northern Virginia (Reston) after Hurricane Katrina. Katrina was a defining moment in our lives. We loved New Orleans, but life post Katrina has been good to us as well.
Last year, in anticipation of retirement, LOML and I had a look around to see where we would like to settle down. NOVA was out of the question, for a whole plethora of reasons. We wanted somewhere slower, more polite, more "southern".
We drove around a lot and truth be told nirvana was Chattanooga, TN. Lovely place. Absolutely lovely, but and there is always a but, it's a 10 hour drive from my kids. Just really not workable.
So we continued driving around, and excluded a lot of other places, but kept coming back to Williamsburg. It's quiet, has amazing history to experience, not dissimilar climate to New Orleans, and most of all the people are friendly and welcoming.
After coming to that conclusion, a house search began. The smallness of Williamsburg made that an issue. Not many houses for sale, and when they did come up the ones we were interested in didn't last long. So we decided to have a house built through an interesting sequence of events, a story that perhaps I'll tell later.
We moved in the house in October of 2023, and have slowly been getting familiar with the area. It's definitely a smaller community. Things we were used to having at arms length now take a bit of sleuthing to find.
That's all for now. Just wanted to say hello. I've been working my way around the site.
cheers,
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rogueclimber
Practically Family
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- 535
- Location
- Marina del Rey
I was always taught to introduce myself when entering a new community, and this thread seems like the place to do that:
I love a good looking hat, but could never figure out how to wear one.
But I believe I have figured it out
Just wear the damn hat!
So that is what I am doing. I have purchased a few hats over the last couple of months, and as I continue to learn from the collective wisdom here in The Fedora Lounge I am sure I will buy a few more.
I consider myself a Bon Vivant, I appreciate the finer things in life, and I am always looking to learn
Cheers
I love a good looking hat, but could never figure out how to wear one.
But I believe I have figured it out
Just wear the damn hat!
So that is what I am doing. I have purchased a few hats over the last couple of months, and as I continue to learn from the collective wisdom here in The Fedora Lounge I am sure I will buy a few more.
I consider myself a Bon Vivant, I appreciate the finer things in life, and I am always looking to learn
Cheers
Alfons
New in Town
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- 9
- Location
- Frankonia/Germany
Hi, I'm from Germany and came across this forum by chance. I'm trying to bring more vintage vibes into my life because I adore the long-gone era of the German economic miracle (1950s to late 1960s). I like the noble and identity-giving nature of that time and also appreciate the cheerfulness and optimism for the future, something that I really miss in the present time.
Thats also the reason why i work in museum education and really love my work.
Cheers.
Thats also the reason why i work in museum education and really love my work.
Cheers.
GHT
I'll Lock Up
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- 9,793
- Location
- New Forest
Welcome Alfons, you will find The Fedora Lounge covers a wide and diverse range of topics. Just take your time to settle in, to see what interests you and before long you will find this place addictive. It's good to have you along.
Hello.
I just (re)joined the Lounge. I distinctly remember being a member many years ago, but I'm unable to recall what my username or the email was back then. It was perhaps around 2010-ish. Being busy with many things I had completely forgotten about this place.
My fedoras consist of mainly Akubras. I have one Resistol cowboy hat that I purchased around 1990. I have been very unhappy with it. Many years ago I was caught in a Florida thunderstorm, heavy rain, and it stained a white shirt with the purple dye used to make it look black. I haven't worn it since.
Perhaps this is a good place to (re)intro myself? I'm semi-retired, married, live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, USA. My primary interests revolve around collecting antique lanterns from the 1800s, shooting sports, metal working, and various other things. I enjoy occasionally wearing a fedora while smoking a vintage pipe. Probably a bunch of other stuff too.
I just (re)joined the Lounge. I distinctly remember being a member many years ago, but I'm unable to recall what my username or the email was back then. It was perhaps around 2010-ish. Being busy with many things I had completely forgotten about this place.
My fedoras consist of mainly Akubras. I have one Resistol cowboy hat that I purchased around 1990. I have been very unhappy with it. Many years ago I was caught in a Florida thunderstorm, heavy rain, and it stained a white shirt with the purple dye used to make it look black. I haven't worn it since.
Perhaps this is a good place to (re)intro myself? I'm semi-retired, married, live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, USA. My primary interests revolve around collecting antique lanterns from the 1800s, shooting sports, metal working, and various other things. I enjoy occasionally wearing a fedora while smoking a vintage pipe. Probably a bunch of other stuff too.
