Your Sporty Ancestors

• Apr 12, 2007

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Marc Chevalier

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Blue "blazer" (really a suit jacket) with striped white flannels and white shoes ... and a very early fedora.


Rolled cuffs, as in J. Alfred Prufrock ("Shall I wear my trousers rolled?")


Yes, it's Rudolf Leitner, my Austrian great-grandfather, gallivanting in Paris around 1900.


Show us photos of your ancestors in sporty duds. Hunting, fishing, camping, playing tennis or golf, riding, driving, biking, sailing, rowing ... or just looking sporty for no particular reason (like my great-grandpa, below).

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• Apr 12, 2007

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Marc Chevalier

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Here's a link to a great photo:


http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showpost.php?p=292906&postcount=34

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• Apr 12, 2007

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Dalexs

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I'll have to get a few of my great grandfather posted.
This weekend I wsas rummaging thru my folks photo albums
(shhh, it's a surprise...) and found some great portraits
of him and my grandfather.
Next trip down I'll grab shots of them.

 

• Apr 12, 2007

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Baron Kurtz

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'fraid my ancestors of interesting eras were too poor to own cameras - as were all their friends - :eusa_booh

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• Apr 12, 2007

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Marc Chevalier

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Maybe they were sporty poachers?

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• Apr 12, 2007

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Baron Kurtz

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Being slowly digested inside "The Crouching Monste

Certainly that!

And one of them (great-grandfather, i believe) was a water Ghillie so maybe some toffs have photos of him rowing a boat to the best salmon holes for them.

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• Apr 12, 2007

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dhermann1

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Not an ancestor, but . . .

Wasn't there a post, or maybe just a story on the web, about George Mallory's clothes on Everest when he died? He was VERY tweedy, and they looked ridiculously inadequate for 29,000 feet, compared to modern mountain gear. But people tried similar clothes on and found them remarkably suitable (no pun intended) and comfortable for the purpose.
http://www.outdoorsmagic.com/news/article/mps/UAN/3517/v/1/

 

• Apr 13, 2007

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StanleyVanBuren

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Is there anywhere that sells trousers like this today? I will buy a pair right now.

 

• Apr 13, 2007

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Orgetorix

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Marc Chevalier said:

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Blue "blazer" (really a suit jacket) with striped white flannels and white shoes ... and a very early fedora.


Rolled cuffs, as in J. Alfred Prufrock ("Shall I wear my trousers rolled?")


Yes, it's Rudolf Leitner, my Austrian great-grandfather, gallivanting in Paris around 1900.


Show us photos of your ancestors in sporty duds. Hunting, fishing, camping, playing tennis or golf, riding, driving, biking, sailing, rowing ... or just looking sporty for no particular reason (like my great-grandpa, below).

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Hard to imagine being sporty in a 3-4" stiff collar today!