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    Trench Coat - the 'Ultimate' Thread!

    Peterman Trenchcoat sold out... alternatives? I was waiting for an advance check before ordering the Peterman English-Style Trenchcoat, and by the time I get it, surprise, surprise, the coat is no longer carried. I'm sure it'll be picked up again sometime, but in the meantime, does anyone have...
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    Great British television.

    You fellows should netflix "Foyle's War," a series of mysteries set in wartime Britain. Good fashions, good sense of period and politics, etc. Black Adder IS incredible, as is the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series. I'm a big fan of the BBC/A&E Horatio Hornblower movie series. If you...
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    Uniform Patterns?

    Does anyone know where one can find uniform patterns? And not just for WWII - WWI especially, and it wouldn't hurt to have access to that fancy foppishness of 19th c. Britian either.
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    Harris Tweed Newsboy Caps

    One of my favorite possessions is a dark blue harris tweed oddcoat that I inherited from my father (who is still alive, worry not). He bought it around the time that I was born, in '80 or so, and believes that they made only one batch of the blue before deciding against making any more. So it...
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    Favorite/worst job?

    Also, in relation to the Fantasmic/Disney posts above, does anyone know Greg George? He's a friend of the family, and I believe he's in charge of the animatronics down there, i know that he worked on Fantasmic. His son got me hooked on Swing Music in early high school when I would visit Orlando.
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    Favorite/worst job?

    Best job: This one's a tie between Security guard at a mental institution (Western State Hospital in KY) which I did for a couple of summers in college, and my high school job which was doorman/projectionist at the local movie theater. Being a film buff, the perks were very nice - unlimited...
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    My First Panama Hat- First Post

    I've been holding out on getting a new one. I had a J. Peterman of the most beautiful shape that fit me like a dream, but over the years the constant doffing has worn away the weave in the front dents, and now it's in terrible shape. The new Peterman company is a sad shadow of its former self...
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    If Spielberg retired today...

    Instead of George Stevens, try Henry Hathaway. To me, Gunga Din is not one of my favorites. I know I'll probably get booted off the board for saying so, but Cary Grant usually mugs far too much for me to really get into a movie that he's in - you never forget that you are watching a movie, and...
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    swiss army knife

    I'm interested to know this, too... my family is Swiss in origin, and my grandfather gave me a swiss army knife that I've been carrying on my person nearly every day for almost ten years. This is no small feat for me, as I lose almost everything that comes into contact with me.
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    Screen Names...

    My friends and I belonged to a club called "The Ship" from when we were Sophomores or Juniors at college. It had a somewhat piratical theme, and members were given various fitting monikers (the cap'n, sea dog, fop, fouche' the stowaway, fezzig, etc). I very much wanted mine to be Calico Jack...
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    How Old Are The Members of The Fedora Lounge?

    I'm halfway through my twenty-fourth year. In regards to an earlier post, there was a pant craze similar to bellbottoms in the thirties, very popular at Cambridge University, although they were not, in fact, bellbottoms. Structurally, they were far more similar to the "wide-leg" pants that...
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    If Spielberg retired today...

    I would like to see a script done by George MacDonald Fraser. Fraser, who is best known for his Flashman novel series, is also a top-notch film historian, and has a real passion for the exotic high adventure pieces of the thirties and forties. He's proved he can handle a franchise with...
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