Recent content by Patrick Murtha

I have the same problem at 6'2", 205 lbs., 46L jacket, 40/32.5 trousers. I occasionally score a second-hand suit on Ebay, but not yet a true vintage suit. Vintage shirts (16.5/36) are tough too. I've had some luck with shoes (12), although not so much pre-1960. I do fine with hats (7 1/4), and...

My 15-year-old Birman cat, Claire, came with me to Korea and is doing splendidly in her new apartment (she's strictly indoor). Behaviorally she is a dog-like cat (characteristic of her breed), so she seems to attach more to me rather than to her "territory," with the result that she relocates...

R.F. Delderfield's two-volume The Avenue has been recommended to me in an Upstairs, Downstairs forum, although I have not read it yet. It covers life on a middle-class English suburban road between the late Teens and the late Forties.

I haven't started collecting vintage youth fiction yet, but I should; I'm seriously interested in it. I too grew up with the post-1958 Hardy Boys volumes. There were 58 Hardy Boys titles in all in the original hardcover series, and the first 38 of these were published in two different versions...

Some ultimate sleek styling there. I'd love a pair like that.

Those are so extremely beautiful, I do not even know how to handle it.

Here in Changwon, Korea, I don't have access to as broad a range of quality beer as I am used to. But I find enough to get me by. The one Korean beer I have taken a liking to is Black Beer Stout from the Hite brewery, which is not remotely a stout, but a dark lager akin to Negra Modelo. The...

I watched Michael Clayton last night. Definitely an above-average legal thriller, at least in part because the legal angles are not too unbelievable (as they are in most legal movies and TV series). The directorial style is reminiscent of Alan J. Pakula at his paranoid best (All the President's...

Pretty much. I greatly appreciate your saying so! At least addictions to books and clothing are not life-threatening, only wallet-threatening. I can live with that.

Your blog is excellent, and your fashion sense is impeccable.

I recently finished Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Currently I'm re-reading Bram Stoker's Dracula, which is greatly entertaining. I have also started Henry James's The Europeans. A big project I just began is reading the complete Canterbury Tales in Middle English (Penguin edition). I had...

Maury Chaykin, who starred as the detective Nero Wolfe in A Nero Wolfe Mystery on A&E, has died on his 61st birthday: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2010/07/28/chaykin-maury-tributes.html The series, co-starring Timothy Hutton as the dapper Archie Goodwin, has got to be one of the most...

I would so wear Oxford bags if I could find any. I love the flamboyance.

I've been away from the Fedora Lounge for a long while. I'm as allergic to posting photographs as I ever was, but I am enjoying many of yours. I just started teaching ESL in Korea a couple of months ago, and 99% of my wardrobe needs to be shipped to me; I'm dressing out of the garment bag I...

^ Truly loving the boots, Alan. They have been on my must have list ever since you posted an earlier pic.