Recent content by Retired EE

Reviving this older thread... I recently purchased a What Price Glory (WPG) goatskin leather A-2 flight jacket (also "2018 run"). As others have noted, this is a very well made jacket. At a price of $155.00, I was curious about how well it compared to another well known brand's A-2 flight...

My grandfather and his 1st cousin, circa 1905. I guess their parents thought this was cute.

Thank you... never heard of that hat style before. I noticed that the brim didn't have the satin edging, and also didn't have the satin band. Has the look of a Homburg. He would have been a bit young career-wise to have worn a Homburg at the time; though he was a snappy dresser (my dad said...

Proto-Homburg? My great-grandfather ca late 1890s.

Pretty much agree with your Rolex sentiments. I bought a new Explorer 114270 from an authorized dealer in 2002. Sold the Explorer in 2012. The lack of a date indicator and the "retro" (to be polite) deployant clasp caused a loss of interest in the watch. My Archimede Outdoor Protect fulfills...

Since I'm somewhat of vintage age-wise, one of my decades-old rules to prevent getting the flu was to not drink from glasses or use utensils that others are using (e.g., a friend at dinner says "try a sip of my wine, I think you'll like it," or "I can't finish my steak, you want what I can't...

Unfortunately, I have only one photo of her, which was cropped from a larger family photo with her children at her side and behind her (one of whom was my grandfather). Her name was Osana, which means "otter" in the Muscogee Creek language. My aunt possesses all the old family photos. I...

My great-grandmother, wearing her trade bead necklace. She was born in 1874, and lived in a small community within the Chickasaw Indian nation in the Oklahoma territory. To those with expertise in trade bead necklaces, what might be the stones, and their color, which make up her necklace?

A Porsche 906 (?) on display.

And another... this time of the wrecked Scuderia Bear team's no. 63 Ford GT. It wrecked during practice prior to the race.

Another picture successfully uploaded. We reached one of the ticket gates to the LeMans race course.

Well... got one to upload of my mom, brothers, and I heading to the gate. I'm the big kid (8 years old) on the right.

Thank you... I have a lot more digitally converted photos of this race my dad took with his 35mm camera, but memory limitations of this website have made it impossible to upload them. They capture aspects of the race not shown in the film.

A friend and I saw the movie this evening. Some observations: I agree with your overall assessment, articulated above. My thoughts as I watched the Ford and Ferrari business interactions depicted in the movie was that, in the greater overall view of this event, Ferrari could be described as...

Unable to upload photos due to memory limitations, but I posted some photos of the 1966 LeMans race my dad took over at this website, this past April: https://askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/threads/where-have-you-been.241124/page-7 One of the pictures shows the no.1 Ford GT, driven by Ken...