GregNYC
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Hello all,
Glad to have found this place! I'm a nostalgia buff in every thing: literature, movies, military and civilian attire, shoes/boots, shaving, colognes, watches, pens, pencils, paper, typography, graphic design, automobiles, music, you name it. My father was a friend of Walter Gropius of the Bauhaus movement, and we always had design and art and old music and movies at home. I like Art Deco up to the pencil-pants pre-acid 60's. I found Paddy's and Bill French's posts on the vintage leather jacket forums. But this place is a place to burrow into a wider range of the classic beauties of a past world. Fascinating!
But it's new for me to get serious about the clothing aspects. Can you recommend a good book on the great clothing of any part of this time period?
Can the fedora wearers among you get away with wearing them? I'm in NYC, so I think I could too. I think I'd prefer a real vintage to a modern repro lookalike. Does anyone wear a fedora with an A-2 leather flight jacket? Like THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT!
What do you do for the shoes? I found some great shoes like my father used to wear in the 1950s. The Leeds by Allen Edmunds.
Shiny smooth shell cordovan, and really thick leather sole, with a slanted cut-out on the inside corner of the heel so as not to catch on your pant cuff or the carpet.
I'm interested in WWII khakis too, and will try WWII-Impressions. Bills I found to be only so-so.
How about the shirts?
Any Aloha shirt fans? A friend of mine is crazy about them, it's the only kind of shirt he wears!
I should stop asking - I like everything!
Any tips?? Thanks to all,
--Greg
Glad to have found this place! I'm a nostalgia buff in every thing: literature, movies, military and civilian attire, shoes/boots, shaving, colognes, watches, pens, pencils, paper, typography, graphic design, automobiles, music, you name it. My father was a friend of Walter Gropius of the Bauhaus movement, and we always had design and art and old music and movies at home. I like Art Deco up to the pencil-pants pre-acid 60's. I found Paddy's and Bill French's posts on the vintage leather jacket forums. But this place is a place to burrow into a wider range of the classic beauties of a past world. Fascinating!
But it's new for me to get serious about the clothing aspects. Can you recommend a good book on the great clothing of any part of this time period?
Can the fedora wearers among you get away with wearing them? I'm in NYC, so I think I could too. I think I'd prefer a real vintage to a modern repro lookalike. Does anyone wear a fedora with an A-2 leather flight jacket? Like THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT!
What do you do for the shoes? I found some great shoes like my father used to wear in the 1950s. The Leeds by Allen Edmunds.
Shiny smooth shell cordovan, and really thick leather sole, with a slanted cut-out on the inside corner of the heel so as not to catch on your pant cuff or the carpet.
I'm interested in WWII khakis too, and will try WWII-Impressions. Bills I found to be only so-so.
How about the shirts?
Any Aloha shirt fans? A friend of mine is crazy about them, it's the only kind of shirt he wears!
I should stop asking - I like everything!
Any tips?? Thanks to all,
--Greg
