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    Seeking Unique Gift Ideas!

    I don't know what your handicraft abilities are. I engraved a glass-beer mug with a dremel tool with the number of years the person had in a laurel wreath and some personal words. I also made caps for some very special people - quite a challenge, depending on the kind of cap one makes and...
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    Your favorite movie quotes

    Take this with a twinkle in the eye: Charles Bronson as Kersey to Kevyn Major Howard as Stomper in "Death Wish II" (1982): You believe in Jesus? - Yes, I do! - Well, you gonna meet him!
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    Show Us Your OVERCOATS

    In the booklet from the early 1950s I have this coat is called "Sportulster" (fig. b) and doesn't seem to have been particularly rare. Sorry for the pictures which are sideways again!
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    Show Us Your OVERCOATS

    Just found this nice thread looking for a place where I could post some of my coats. I am sorry that the pictures are sideways - I don't know why this happened and hope that this is the right place to post them. The coat in the first picture is in almost mint condition - must be some 100 years...
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    French Hats and makers.

    Just found this thread again. Some time ago I posted my first top hat here - a collapsible early Gibus. I thought I could also post the only (as far as I remember) other two french hats I possess (apart from a few police, army etc. képis) - they happen to be top hats as well, bought in the...
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    Does anyone have any information on Sam Hollander, a former clothier at 364 Asylum St in Hartford Conn?

    Nice frock coat! Perhaps this helps (unless you haven't found it yourself already): (Hollanders starts at about 8:30)
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    Songs That Mention Hats

    Another straw hat in French: "Le Chapeau de paille" sung by Caterina Valente:
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    Songs That Mention Hats

    Some other ones for the francophones/francophiles: "Le chapeau de Mireille": Four classics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WTQp8bjrEk You can't stop, once you've started looking for them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yA_5O3JD_A
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    My first vintage leather jacket

    @ Marc mndt: Thank you for the clarification!
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    Show us your TIES

    Don't know whether these belong here nor whether I should show them at all. They all are from my active bow-tie-wearing times. The first three I made myself (and they only came to my mind again when the exact same set - yet a bit longer versions - turned up when I was checking my late father's...
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    My first vintage leather jacket

    Almost forgot this one! It was my first real vintage leather jacket, got it on a flea market in the late 1980s/early 1990s for a price I don't even dare mention (because there were some stains of white paint on the back which I could remove without leaving a trace). What is special is that the...
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    Show us your TIES

    Thank you! My father himself gave some of his shirts to my son - I think/hope he cherishes them - there are some photos which show my father wearing them. I have always cherished the suits my father gave to me (he didn't chersih them so much - they were "old fashioned") as they were very high...
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    Show us your TIES

    In Memory of E. A. R.: Here are some ties my late father gave to me:
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    Help me to identify the decade (and type) of an old suit

    I'd say it is a suit from the 1960s. You've noticed yourself the plastic lining of the pockets. The trousers don't have any pleats, nor are they bell-bottoms and they aren't cuffed either, yet they still have buttons and no zipper. Most revealing for me are the cloth covered buttons of the...
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    Songs That Mention Hats

    This would also fit into the "You know that you are getting older when:" thread - I used to produce a French radio program and back in 2020 in one of the programs I played Fernandel's version of "J'ai un beau chapeau" which I completely forgot about. So for all the francophones/francophiles...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    There is a lot to be said in this context - one thing amongst countless others is that you've not the patience to read 373 pages of posts to check whether what you want to say has already been said... I saw some competitions for oldtimers and the remakable video about Paddy and Nicko. I like...
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    Restoring/recreating a visor cap/peaked cap

    Thanks! Thank god the kid is no longer a kid and quite reasonable.
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    Restoring/recreating a visor cap/peaked cap

    My son found the remains of the peaked cap/visor cap of an Austrian postbus driver of the 1920ies in the attic of a house shortly before it was torn down. I tried to recreate it as it was beyond restoring. So I had to find out how the templates were constructed, find some suitable fabric...
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    Songs That Mention Hats

    Have we already had Desi Arnaz' Straw Hat Song? or the Straw Hat Polka (instrumental only)? or the Mexican Hat Dance? Again, hard to stop once you've started to look for hat songs.
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    Songs That Mention Hats

    One for the Germanophones and the fellow-top-hat-aficionados (the text was mentioned here: https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/german-austrian-hutmachers.32103/page-466#post-2913733).

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