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Recent content by resortes805

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    VERY wide leather belt and loose dungarees on male teen in 1930s?

    you guys are killing me! These are just wide leg jeans with a wide waistband, very common for kids in the depression. Just do a search on this site and you'll see tons of pictures of pants like these from Sears Catalogs and such.
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    The Thread to Display Your 1930s Suits

    Let's keep this thread for authentic 1930s suits. Reproductions are fun, but let's keep it original.
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    Replica pre-war Hawaiian shirts?

    Guttersnipe for the win! the fact of the matter is that the earliest aloha shirt designs are basically going to look like a pullover gaucho shirt, but with shirt tails; which no one has reproduced. So just get one of the Sun Surf's and be satisfied.
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    The New Aero Blizzard

    It's a great vintage look! If I had the scratch, I'd order one.
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    Aero halfbelt 11 years on

    Very cool!
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    FS: Simon James Cathcart Brakeman jeans - 32x31

    Were these professionally tapered?
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    Who makes repro 1950s pegs

    A Japanese company called "The King"
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    Indiana Jones V

    Pretty much sums up what happened with the Last Crusade.
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    Strange Stratoliner

    could be a replacement sweat; some hat rehab shops used deadstock overstock sweats on rehabs
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    Spectator Shoes

    Because nothing screams "elegance" like canvas! As a vintage clothing dealer with 15 years experience, 'workwear' style is the only thing keeping the vintage/repop market afloat, it is interest in everything else that has narrowed. If you want to complain about a dressy SJC shoe than have...
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    The black leather jacket - a mark of respectability

    Any truth to the reason why they put Fonzy in a BROWN leather jacket on "Happy Days?"
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    Spectator Shoes

    I ordered the navy and cream!
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    Inspiration 2016

    Decent show. Not the best, but worth the 10 minute drive. Dehen had a some great new stuff also.
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    Reproductions: How do you know they're accurate?

    I've been collecting vintage clothing long enough to own, have owned, or know someone who does own an original garment or jacket to compare a repop inspired by the said piece to. In fact, noting differences, both subtle and glaring, is apart of the geeky fun of appreciating this stuff. That...

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