Recent content by Rathko

That's the one - thanks.

YEPS - your black and white pic inspired me to finally grow a pencil moustache. Is it naturally dark or does is have (ahem) assistance?

I could have sworn there used to be a sticky from one of the FL regulars (Matt Deckard?) outlining the must-haves of a vintage wardrobe. However much I look and search, I can't find it. Are my delusions becoming more pronounced or was the post removed?

Sorry to be resurrecting this thread after a year, but what happened? I spend most of my free hours trying to find socks with clocking and horizontal stripes but to no avail. I'd definitely be interested in a range from Magnoli, as would others it seems, but looking at the website - still no socks.

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I assume you're talking about dress trousers rather than jeans. I think most people with half a clue make sure their trousers are the right length - slight break when cuffless; no break when cuffed. The only people I see wearing them overly long are teenagers going to their part-time job...

Shirt? Most examples I've ever seen are a solid white or off-white. Tie? Regular, not bow. Striped, or figured. Socks? Sometimes plain, but very often featuring the craziest argyle-type pattern possible. As for color, something complementary to the plus-fours can't be wrong...

Glad to hear it, Lokar. Sounds very Ibsen-esque (yes, I know he's Norwegian - sorry). Late Victorian/Edwardian stuff is absolutely wearable. It's only really the dramatically curved jacket fronts that might seem unusual.

Zombie Cowboy. I find the zombie prefix works for men as the slutty prefix works for women - zombie cop, zombie doctor, zombie superhero instead of slutty cop, slutty doctor, slutty superhero. RATHKO

I always wear at least a jacket and tie to work despite the prevailing trend for hipster-casual. One night I ran into a few of my colleagues during one of the rare periods in which I was wearing jeans and a T-shirt. The first comments from every one of them were that I looked ten years younger...

Clothing you wear when you're playing yourself. Costume you wear when you're playing somebody else.

I realize it isn’t technically FL’s era, but has anybody else looked into repro Victorian clothing? Personally, I love just about all clothing post-French Revolution and still grieve over the fact that I can’t wear a navy tail coat and buff breeches in public. I wondered just how early one could...

I thought it was just me they treated like a homeless guy off the street. Hell, I'm wearing vintage tweed with my favorite cashmere tie and some kid in a black suit that's two sizes too big, with the shoulder seam half way down his upper arm and a gape in his shirt collar large enough to smuggle...

Being from England, I'm just used to heavier weight wools. The lighter ones feel insubstantial to me, as though they're going to wear through too quickly. I also like the feeling of being constricted by my clothing - hence my love of the three-piece and tie - and thinner fabrics are just too...

Of course pink is vintage... In 'The Great Gatsby', the title character spends half the book running around in a pink suit - 'I must have felt pretty weird by that time because I could think of nothing except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon' - and again - 'His gorgeous pink rag...