I like how we have gone all 60s.
I like how we have gone all 60s.
A closeup of me wearing my one and only suit. The waistcoat isn't part of it, obviously...
...Where did you get that hat, where did you get that tile? Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style! I should like to have one just the same as that. Whereever I go they'd shout "hello, where did you get that hat?..."
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Two words: Collar Stays........
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear. ~ Herman Melville
Hmm does my suit look 60's? I figured with the wider lapels it couldn't possibly be. I thought the 60's was all body-hugging with ultra skinny lapels and such.
I got a haircut today and wore that same suit with a white shirt, but same tie, and the wife said, "You look kinda 1920's...is that what you're going for?" I said, "I'd prefer 1890's, but 1920 is a lot closer than 2012, so I'll take it as a compliment!"
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“Nowhere in the world will such a brotherly feeling of confidence be experienced as amongst those who sit together smoking their pipes.”
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Having had 3 chinese suits for years, I felt like having something special this time, so I ordered a Giorgio Armany tailored suit.
Not exactly cheep, but sitting much more comfortably than any of my chinese taylored suits.
In a small indian silk tie shop in Copenhagen I asked the sweet young owner if she could draw me a doubble bass on a black silk tie. She didn`t knew what this was looking like, so I made a hasty draw on a piece of paper, and she ended up making my draw on my tie freehanded to my pleasant surprise, more precise than I made it.
The Picture is taken in some playing hall in Las Vegas around 07, attending the big car exibition that year, waiting for some italian MOMO salesmen to pick me and my friend up for having a wonderful dinner on their account.
The next day it was some germans to invite us out. All in all a lovely week,in a very lively town.
Going to a fotoshop with my Sema badge, showing my name in english - Alan Iverson -almost killed the foto staff in she shop. They were all laughing seing a small european pale man, with the height of 173cm - 68,1 inches.
Much later I found out about my name brother :O)
You can just about see one of the legs from the Eifel tower behind me....any idea about the name of the hotel where we were dining outside ?
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Please be good to our planet, and do not destroy it, - this is where I have all my stuff
Trust me, I wish I had them! Or better yet, a collar-bar! But I'm not so lucky...Originally Posted by A.C. Lyles
Two words: Collar Stays........
...Where did you get that hat, where did you get that tile? Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style! I should like to have one just the same as that. Whereever I go they'd shout "hello, where did you get that hat?..."
"Not Yet Published" - My Writing and History Blog
Starch, and not the spray-on stuff!
Monocle: This may be worn by (1) good dukes, (2) all Englishmen. No bad man may wear a monocle. ~P. G. Wodehouse
they really are cheap or make your own out of plastic as for the collar bar 3mm nut and long bolt?
vm
The cheap plastic ones work fairly well considering their price. I bought a package of something like 50 of them of various sizes for about $3.50. Even the really fancy brass ones are only about 8-10 bucks for a box of 20 or something.
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“Nowhere in the world will such a brotherly feeling of confidence be experienced as amongst those who sit together smoking their pipes.”
Not intentionally in my case! It turns out with some careful looking into the inner pocket seams, the union tag on my recent tan-&-green number was the post-'62 tag with the (R) on it.Shoulda looked closer before I let myself believe it was an unusual '50s jacket, rather than a getup from a time period I'm not too fond of. Sorry if you like the '60s, but it's not my cup of tea.
♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ ♫♪ T'aint what'cha do, it's the way that'cha do it;
T'aint what'cha do, it's the time that'cha do it;
T'aint what'cha do, it's the place that'cha do it;
That's what gets results!
Just a jazzy streetcar operator lost in the past
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