Recent content by Nobert

Looks like they might go to a zoot suit.

"Dancer in the Dark" I really think Von Trier enjoys making audiences feel bad. "Yellow Submarine." Like giving a seven-year-old kid a bad acid trip.

The memoirs of Bill Mauldin, and Jean Shepherd (Christmas story only gives you a tip-of-the-iceberg variation)

Protestant guilt is going about your life feeling vaguely guilty that you're not sure what you're supposed to be feeling guilty about, so you hedge your bets and distribute it around to more or less everything.

Well, that makes even more sense. One design element I'm fond of the the curly-cued metal plate on my old Hoover. Apart from being aesthetically pleasing, depending on how you let the peg on the side go through the slotted paths, it allows the vacuum to tilt at a regular angle or extra low, to...

I have a notion that working-class people used pocket watches for a period after the wristwatch gained ascendance, though this is based on naught but casual evidence and speculation. The evidence being, as you mention, the watch pocket on denim dungarees, and the fact that I keep coming across...

An ex-girlfriend's mother had a weird condition wherein novocaine had no effect on one side of her face. When she was a child, no one believed this and she grew up with a paralyzing fear of dentists. She lost all her teeth quite young. I guess I've been lucky, the truth is I haven't seen a...

Well, that's kind of sad. If I'm honest, I never could abide most of his stuff (which I found vile for no other reason than shock value), but when he dialed it back he could make some eerily interesting comics. A great talent, if not to my taste.

I was kidding inasmuch as this is something I did do accidentally, and it did shrink and warp the sweatband. I thought it was obvious that this was facetious, but if not, then no, don't really do that.

Something I've used with moderate success is a spray-on thing called Shoe Stretcher. I don't know what it does, chemically, but it elasticizes the leather a bit, to facilitate size nudges. If you want to shrink a hat band, that's easy. Just give it a good steaming over a tea kettle, think to...

Yeah, it's colder up there. When I was a baby/toddler my family lived in Montreal, and since then I've been to Carnivale in Quebec a couple of times. in addition to the latitude, you get those bracing blasts of hypothermia coming in off the St. Lawrence. In seriousness, one place to consider...

You could always come to northern New England. You'll be surrounded by impressive snowy peaks, as you attempt to traverse the sidewalks after the plow trucks have some through. You may think the winters intimidating, but there are many mechanisms and compensations for it. Believe me, there is...

Darcy clothing sells them in XXL (U.K.), I don't know how that translates in actual inches. https://www.darcyclothing.com/collections/mens-knitwear/products/shetland-wool-fair-isle-slipover-kn145

I've always been a bit confused as to the Continental style, what makes it what it is. What I used to think it was turned out to be Ivy League. This is probably at least in part from trying to learn from those quickie, history-of-fashion overviews that you find in books on menswear or...

"Power Look," bleah. I hate that whole concept. Just wear a loincloth of animal skin if you're so set on alpha-male dominance, and may your B.M.W. blow a tiny part that costs your entire bloated yearly bonus. And yea, huzzah to brown. I do feel like, in some of these ads, I can see the Bold...